1990 Clos Rougeard (Foucault) Saumur-Champigny Le Bourg

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94 points

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  10/2/2019 - Raage Likes this wine: 94 Points

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  Quel nez! La curiosité impatiente était à son comble avant de plonger les narines dans le verre, et d'emblée je fus séduis, il y a qq chose, il y a une trame, une énergie, une vibration dans la fruité étincellant de ce vin de 30 ans ou presque! La fraise écrasée encore fraiche et compotée, le sous-bois, la mousse et l'humus, le poivron rôti à la peau grillée, des effluves de cuir, de fleurs séchées, embaument le verre. En bouche, l'attaque est sublime, entre souplesse, finesse, fraicheur et structure, l'equilibre est magique défiant le temps et les repères. Un bémol à mon sens tout de meme, sur la finale qui ne s'est pas montrée à la hauteur du reste, car certes minérale (forcément), elle laissait poindre une austérité asséchante (rafle? bois? ambition de la vinification?).
  Wouah, quelle trame tout de même!

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  10/13/2016 - Smooth Jazz wrote: 90 Points

  From the list at La Tour d'Argent
  
  Definitely quite advanced and I'm not sure I agree with some of the recent notes below
  
  Dusty and somewhat one dimensional
  
  Will not improve

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  4/14/2016 - Papies wrote: 95 Points

  Clos Rougeard 1976 - 2010 organised by Jordi Orriols-Gil (Noble Rot, London): Having tried this wine 5 months ago from n impecable cellar and rated 98 we were a bit disappointed to have gotten a light wiff of TCA on this that was just enough to spoil this almost perfect wine. Still with that the wine was a good 94-95 but still not to the level.

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  11/28/2015 - Papies wrote: 98 Points

  Le fuck you Isis Lunch (La Tour D'Argent, Paris): From the magnificent cellar of La Tour D'Argent, Paris.
  Straight from the start this was masterclass of a wine. The colour was youngish and vibrant, a feeling that was carried by the wined rom nose to palate too. Super complex and elegant, lovely silky tannin and a depth of flavour to write songs about. Purely a superb wine. 98 and with a lot of life ahead of ot.

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  7/5/2013 - Flavito wrote: 93 Points

  Gamy and complex, very smooth on the palate, with soft, velvety tannins. A little shorter and more rustic that a bottle opened about a year ago at La Tour D´Argent, which was close to perfection.

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