2013 René Noël Legrand Saumur-Champigny Les Terrages

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 86.5 points

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  12/11/2014 - eboracum Likes this wine: 88 Points

  I enjoyed this bottle more that the previous. An extra month's ageing together with opening an hour before serving and drawing off a glass to lubricate the chef may have helped. The nose and medium/light palate were a lot more expressive with the fresh red fruit and minerals fleshed out and enhanced by the delicious clay and leather notes which I recall from earlier vintages but missed on the previous bottle. I hope that I can find more bottles at Carrefour. Good wine and good QPR.

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  11/8/2014 - eboracum wrote: 85 Points

  I have been a fan of René-Noël Legrand for many years and have bought directly at the estate several times, the last time being in 2008. Of his wines which I have owned, the best were from '89, 90, 96 and 97 and were gutsy, full of tangy red fruit, clay, leather with a tannic structure which demanded some ageing; their being priced in a very friendly way did not spoil the picture! This 2013 (made, I think, by his daughter Clotilde) did not rival these memories but hardly could given the difficult vintage. There was some very nice slightly sour red fruit and minerals particularly on the nose but the medium/light palate was a little reticent. Unlike THT, I was not bothered by dry tannins but I agree that more airing than I gave would be beneficial. It went well with assorted goat cheeses.

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  9/11/2014 - THT wrote:

  J1 : Robe grenat aux bords du disque fushia. Tres joli nez de petit fruits rouges, mais en bouche j'aime moins. L'attaque est fraiche, gourmande, souple, mais les tannins prennent le relais tout de suite. Un peu durs et assechants.
  J+3 : 3 jours après, il est très bien finalement !
  Il a perdu son côté astreingeant en finale. Les tanins sont toujours perceptibles, mais pas durs. Du coup, on profite pleinement des jolis petits fruits rouges. Joli vin agréable, loin des sur-extractions et du body-building. Il lui faut par contre de l'air et sans doute un carafage. A profiter sur le fruit de la jeunesse. Je ne pense pas qu'il gagne beaucoup à être gardé

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