2002 Domaine des Baumard Coteaux du Layon Clos de Sainte Catherine

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  12/16/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Light golden color. Aromas of sultanas and quince. Medium weight for a dessert Chenin Blanc, excellent richness, and only moderate sweetness. The fruit is pure and alive, and it possesses excellent length. This should last for another decade.
  
  More bright orange blossom the next day.

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  2/7/2022 - zpearson Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Medium orange-amber. This smells like burnt orange oil (think about flaming an orange peel over a drink), burnt honey and dried apricots. With some air, sandalwood botrytis. There's really lovely purity here. Oily textured. Gorgeous acidity, apricot and orange marmalade. From the color, I'm thinking this might be advanced a bit, but it's really lovely.

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  11/14/2020 - fitzi wrote:

  This was an excellent bottle and example of mature Coteaux: tingly, slightly sour acidity supporting a well-rounded matrix of ripe peaches and orange peel. The RS largely discerned in the wine's roundness, the actual sweetness very nicely balanced now. I was surprised, because I've been off sweet wines in a big way recently, but the intensity and balance of this wine won me over. Good with the usual suspects - e.g., Stilton - but also with Asian stir-fry, slightly spicy.
  
  A recent bottle I'd given to a friend was dead as a doornail, but she hadn't stored it remotely well, despite my admonitions. Nonetheless, I will be drinking my last bottle within the coming few months - likely over Christmas.

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  11/8/2019 - fitzi wrote:

  Color of rye honey, very well along. Good to drink, tangy with acidity, cosseting soft texture, mellow mature sweetnes, but likely past peak.
  
  I will be finding ways to drink my remaining over the coming year.

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  10/19/2018 - premiercru1973 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Perfectly mature just now. Great balance and a bit more sweetness than expected. Great stuff at a great price!

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