This bottle is perhaps a bit past peak, but still shows a nice basket of ripe but slightly wizened black fruit, ripe red peppers, tobacco, and a panoply of tertiary characteristics - leather, forest floor, and soy. Ultimately lacks the depth of the best bottles of this, but still a nice bottle.
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Five months after the prior, and our fifth: Lovely. We do indeed pick up green notes — but find them to be pleasant characteristics in this bottling. Highly enjoyable over three nights.
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Bright and lighter bodied over herb-infused red fruit, but not green or overly lean (as I find many Loire cab franc). I've enjoyed this before, but this bottle was even better with an extra gear of depth and fruit. The only thing keeping it from scoring even higher is complexity. Ready to go but should hold for sometime.
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Pop and pour. Very green peppery and vegetal, soft red fruit. On the palate: good acidity, mint, soft cola, a touch thin, and completely attenuated tannin on the finish; still, very fresh in style.
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8/20/2023 - ohne_musik wrote: 90 Points
This bottle is perhaps a bit past peak, but still shows a nice basket of ripe but slightly wizened black fruit, ripe red peppers, tobacco, and a panoply of tertiary characteristics - leather, forest floor, and soy. Ultimately lacks the depth of the best bottles of this, but still a nice bottle.
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2/3/2023 - Deux Chevaux wrote:
Our last, darn. Lovely, as before, again over three nights, singing all the way.
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11/22/2022 - Deux Chevaux wrote:
Five months after the prior, and our fifth: Lovely. We do indeed pick up green notes — but find them to be pleasant characteristics in this bottling. Highly enjoyable over three nights.
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10/8/2022 - blanquito wrote: 93 Points
Bright and lighter bodied over herb-infused red fruit, but not green or overly lean (as I find many Loire cab franc). I've enjoyed this before, but this bottle was even better with an extra gear of depth and fruit. The only thing keeping it from scoring even higher is complexity. Ready to go but should hold for sometime.
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8/27/2022 - Aravind Asok wrote:
Pop and pour. Very green peppery and vegetal, soft red fruit. On the palate: good acidity, mint, soft cola, a touch thin, and completely attenuated tannin on the finish; still, very fresh in style.
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