2010 Catherine et Pierre Breton Bourgueil Clos Sénéchal

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 90 points

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  12/5/2023 - winot Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This aged well and came thru in the clutch for me! Medium to medium deep ruby with purple influences still. As with Bordeaux, Loire reds can age for a long time, and while this was not too early, it seems certainly early plateau, and might have developed some pretty awesome tertiaries if left another 5-10 years. Oh well.. was delish tonight anyway. Nose has that ineffable Loire red scent, floral and red fruited, laced with lashings of capsicum and green tobacco. This was absolutely classic, no chance I'd have missed this in a blind tasting. Palate bright and red fruited, broad. Not super dense or full, just right. The perfect bistro/food wine. Wish I had a case....

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  1/18/2022 - winchester-xi Likes this wine:

  Tasty, but maybe just a bit past peak. My bottles have had some issues over the years (though this one didn’t have any obvious problems), so take it for what it’s worth.

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  10/16/2021 - kevin h wrote: 91 Points

  Final bottle and now showing signs of early maturity. Nice ripe cassis fruit, good acidity and well integrated. Fine.

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  3/11/2020 - jlhkiss Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Opened and decanted with grilled pork cutlets. Cloudy, purple-crimson color. The nose offers a lovely bouquet of red roses, spring violets, potpourri, cherry blossoms, and lavender set against a laser beam of candied red cherries mixed with wild herbs, green pepper, and tomato plant. The palate is medium, light on its feet, and still compact, bringing deep blackberries, dark cherries, and plums mixed with V8 Juice, wild mushrooms, pipe tobacco, and dried leather into a tannic finish. This wine drank like it was poured out of a tap in a musty cave. All of the elements are present even while the execution is still muddled and disjointed. Drink 2020-2024. Technical score: 90. Enjoyment score: 91.

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  7/24/2019 - winchester-xi wrote:

  Cork streaked to the end and a little bit of staining on the inside of the foil cap. Dried red and blue berry fruit with an herbal edge and a very stony background note. Tannin almost completely resolved. The wine has a fairly mild palate impression, but then surprising length; there is plenty of acidity, but it is offset by quietly persistent fruit on the finish.
  
  Not sure how much my bottle suffered as result of the sketchy cork. It was, in fact, perfectly nice with some smoked salmon. That said, I think I prefer the exuberant raspberry and blackberry fruit it exhibited in its youth.

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