2005 Charles Joguet Chinon Les Petites Roches

Community Tasting Notes (56) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  9/18/2021 - shaftlet Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Whomever had this previously, cellared it well. The wine is a deep garnet with only the slightest hint of bricking. Slightly reticent aromas of dark chocolate, red currant, dried strawberry, rose, red bell pepper and tobacco. The palate is fairly silky with medium tannins and a medium plus finish. The palate dazzles here more intensely than the nose. Similar flavors to the nose but with a strawberry tootsie roll note. Still developing. This could go another 5-10 years if cellared properly!

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  12/27/2020 - Nanda wrote:

  An awesome Cab Franc with all the leafy tobacco and bell pepper goodness riding a rich earthen black cherry frame. You don’t always get enough fruit in Chinon, but it’s here in spades and works so well with the layered pyrazine complexity.

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  8/13/2018 - BeadyJay wrote: 90 Points

  Drank alongside a bottle of Yannick Amirault’s Malgagnes St Nicolas de Bourgueil 2008. Both wines were drinking very well. The Joguet won out on bouquet – a room-filling hit. On the palate, they were predictably rather different, the Joguet being unoaked and fruit-focused, while the Amirault has seen some oak (having been aged in large barrels for 12 months), and this, as well as the greater age of the vines and its comparative youth, gives it a darker, richer and more elegant mouthfeel. I fancy the Amirault may still improve from here. No signs of decline in either wine, glad to have more of these.

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  12/2/2017 - 5laton wrote:

  Wonderful mature Chinon nose of roasted pepper, ash, animale. Palate disappointed in comparison, it's darkly ripe and a bit thin, and despite the wine seemingly being near maturity still shows a rustic astringence. Many will say this still needs time, but I'm not sure I love where it's going. Joguet's 2005s were bruisers in their youth, and I don't know if that will ever change.

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  9/20/2016 - JJKinch wrote: 91 Points

  Red fruit (cherry), dusty, pepper, nice, lingering finish, a bit dry (in a good way), tannins. Good acidity. Needs an hour or so of air but really enjoyable.

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