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• apg23 Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 14, 2020 - Restrained fruit on the nose, silky finish. Delightful and different than a cab sauv...I personally would like it to be a bit bolder, but I think this is the nature of cab franc. Very good wine.

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• BAJRiley Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 13, 2018 - Consumed at Wine Library, Sydney. Decanted. Medium depth colour, ruby-purple. Nose: perfumed, raspberries and red cherries, cassis and oak and smoke notes. Palate: medium bodied, relatively low acidity and tannins, but good balance and long finish. Excellent.

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• fcxj wrote: 92 points

  June 15, 2018 - Reduction and sourness initially, which clears up. Silky texture. Very, almost too ripe fruit then nail polish finish.

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• d'Artagnan wrote: 93 points

  August 15, 2015 - Souper Clos Rougeard (Chez Imar): Très joli nez frais, des framboises, des épices, crayeux dit Gilles, un peu de piment fort. Jolie bouche équilibrée, pas très concentrée, un vin sur l'élégance, très minéral. Après 40 minutes il est transformé en un vin d'une profondeur que je ne soupçonnais pas au premier verre. Superbe, dans un style léger et aérien qui lui convient parfaitement. 93 pts

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• vulgar little monkey wrote: 94 points

  August 11, 2012 - This was my last bottle of 1997 and it was a pleasure to drink. The palate is resolved, more or less. There are a bit of tannins that add grit and bite, but the tactile experience is mostly silky. There are tertiary aromas of tobacco, cocoa, earth interwoven with spice, cocoa and dried red fruits. I think it is a bit of a tweener at 15 years old. It isn’t quite a mature wine with nothing but savory aromas and bottle sweetness, but it isn’t in that first great peak of a wine where it still has fruit but its structure has basically found its adult form. Still, this is picking nits from a great wine from a great terroir.

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• Vintage 1997
• Type Red
• Producer Clos Rougeard (Foucault)
• Varietal Cabernet Franc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Le Bourg
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Anjou-Saumur
• Appellation Saumur-Champigny

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