2009 Domaine de la Butte Bourgueil Mi-pente

Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  3/31/2024 - repoper wrote: 93 Points

  Slow oxed for 8 hours the into a decanter for another two. Cork is extremely long and barely saturated. Totally opaque with no browning or lightning at the edges. When I poured it into the decanter you could smell the barnyard funk, and dark fruits. In the glass you get the first smell of barnyard funk then the sweet deep red fruits and a nice smoky overtone supported by some sweet cranberries. It seems very young but the tannins and acids are in balance. None of the garden vegetables as they have totally resolved. IMHO this is in an early drinking window, especially compared to my 2004 & 2005’s. I’m sure this will get better in my glass over the next several hours and evolve over the next 10-15 years. Love these wines as the age.
  
  A few hours on. The wine displays a bit more fruity profile of sweet cranberries and has lost the barnyard funk but it’s still a berry young wine that’s as black as night. Seems to have gathered more power. I’m going to leave the rest of my ‘09’s several more years before pulling another cork.
  
  Saved a glass for dat two - the wine does not show any sign of oxidation. It just as good as yesterday, maybe a bit smoother but maintains the same flavor profile. Tannins and acids have smoothed out a bit. A bit better which leads me to believe that there is room for more improvement.

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  7/25/2023 - winchester-xi Likes this wine:

  Drinking beautifully.

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  2/4/2023 - Cabfrancophile Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Excellent bottle, long cork showing some incursion of wine about a third of the way up. Full bouquet of pasture, capsicum, menthol, cedar, leaping out of the glass, such a classic ripe Loie Cab Franc. Slatey black currant palate, rounded in the middle, with a line of tobacco slicing through the dark yet fresh fruit. Fine texture, excellent energy driven by an impulse of acidity, very long finish of herbs, dark chocolate and pomegranate, elegant. Tannins have a bit of astringency, but I think are tracking to resolve in the next decade.
  
  Plenty of development, yet there is no hint of tiredness: this is in early maturity still. Drink now with short decant, or hold 5-10 years. Even 10 years might be conservative.

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  1/15/2022 - repoper wrote:

  Almost a year since the last bottle. Slow oxed all day then into a decanter for a few hours. Nose muted and it seems that this bottle is just off a bit. Not corked but not pristine. It feels out of focus. Very vegi nose and no secondary flavors that I’ve had with my other cab francs. I’m going to have to open an ‘05 and see where that is. No rating, just disappointed.

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  12/18/2021 - michmoutt Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Très bon, pas loin de son apogée avec une structure tannique encore présente mais bien lissée, des notes de poivrons cuits, un joli toucher de bouche, rond, gourmand. Le vin était marié avec des spaghettis au ragoût de canard rôti et donnait un rendu harmonieux et umami.

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