Community Tasting Note

eboracum wrote:

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - This is a slight disappointment for me, a big fan of Philippe Foreau's wines. According to my CT inventory, my very good bottle drunk in 2015 was my last, but this turned up in the place of a missing 2004 when I was relocating my stock. In the intervening years, I think this wine, from a moderately rated Loire vintage IIRC, seems to have lost bloom and complexity while not showing strong signs of age related "off" flavours or oxidation. The nose was quite shy with typical antique wax notes but not much quince or other fruit and floral aroma. The palate was linear in shape, crisp and well focused with a follow through of the aromas from the nose but with less underlying roundness than I was expecting. Perhaps the pairings of barbue fish with spicy vegetable preparations followed by overripe goat cheese obscured the wine's finer points. Still good nevertheless and this time it really was my last bottle.

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