2013 Château de la Bonneliere Touraine Ante Phylloxera Clos de Maulevrier

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  9/30/2023 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 92 Points

  Tasting at Maine Cabin: Deep and dark and saucy. Super grippy. Really young, but fresh, with blackberry and saucy plums, mixed with all sorts of deep herbal and black tea vibes. Incense sticks, pepper, savory spices. I'd love to revisit this in five more years, but it was still a lot of fun.

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  12/18/2022 - Vas19 wrote: 92 Points

  Not the strongest vintage of this wine, but quite good none the less. Fully ripe cab franc fruit. Still a bit of tannin sticking out. I think this needs 2-3 more years to hit its plateau.

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  6/22/2020 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 91 Points

  Medium purple color. Aromas of juicy black cherries and plums, lots of spices (paprika, pepper, tobacco, clove) with violet petals and wild herbs. Bright acidity frames the wine nicely, there's a concentrated core of deep cherry and I even get some wild blueberry - the depth of fruit surprised me, and it took time to get the non-fruit elements to come out. When they did, especially on day two, I got a nice mix of smoky earth, tobacco, tomato leaf, graphite, pine resin. Young and quite blue at first, but opens really nicely. Yummy stuff. I'll hold off on my last bottle for at least three years.

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  3/14/2020 - Andyofoto wrote:

  Incredible. Feel lucky if this is in your cellar.

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  1/7/2019 - grafstrb wrote: 83 Points

  -- decanted about 1.25 hours before initial taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over 3 hours on Day 1; revisited on Day 2 --
  
  NOSE: Day 1: red-fruited with a hint of chocolate coffee; light pyrazine note; hint of red licorice; moderately expressive; beguiling, yet simultaneously reserved; complex; medium-strength oak note. Day 2: starting to oxidize a touch; not as oaky as Day 1.
  
  BODY: violet-garnet color of medium depth; clear; medium-light to medium bodied.
  
  TASTE: Day 1: woodsy; red-fruited; some noticeable oak and oaky tannins; medium+ acidity; frankincense; alc. not noticeable; oak became very strong about 2.50 – 3.0 hours after uncorking. Day 2: still tastes oaky, but not as bad as Day 1; red-fruited and stony, but this comes across as a thin(er) wine that was beaten with an oaken club; some nice garrigué on the finish. *Maybe* this wine soaks up the oak and has fruit left-over when it's all said and done, but I'm not optimistic. I believe I would score this wine around 90 or 91 but for the terribly strong oak aspect. The oak on this is terribly unfortunate. Best to Hold for now.
  
  50, 5, 10, 12, 6 = 83

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