2002 Charles Joguet Chinon Clos du Chêne Vert

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  8/12/2023 - eboracum Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was another good bottle very like the previous but with graciousness taking over from savoury. On the nose there was just a hint of coming decay with whiffs of cabbage emerging but with air the gracious fruit and minerals pushed it aside and on the palate it was not perceptible. This is a warning to open my remaining bottle soon. Very good.

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  7/30/2021 - MuddyBoots wrote:

  Appropriately mature red. Expressive nose of mixed berry fruits with generous but attractive and complicating green notes. Tobacco leaf. Similar on the palate with nicely layered complexity. Its fully ripe - in fact it seemed to sweeten up in the glass - but there is some Cabernet leanness / austerity on the palate. Medium weight. Quite firm acid kicks in early on the mid palate and continues through the long finish. Tannins gripping the gums a little. Very good. Serious Chinon, on the leaner side. This will surely keep a while if so desired. Softened up a bit after a couple of hours. Recommend decanting this.

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  12/31/2019 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Quite light, good red berry flavours with a definite greenness but also with great finesse, slightly bretty, not a great vintage but a very enjoyable wine. Joguet wines are not the best value around, but they do have an innate class which sets them apart from the rest.

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  10/26/2019 - eboracum Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Quite light in colour and medium/light bodied on the palate, this was elegant, delicious and long in a savoury mode with its red berry fruit, minerals, pencil shavings and moreish acidity permeated by a tangy meatiness which may owe something to a brett "fault" but which I happen to like. I recall that, in a tasting in the mid-00s, there was already substantial bottle variation. This was a very good one.

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  3/19/2018 - tendring Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Delicious.

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