2015 Yannick Amirault Bourgueil La Petite Cave

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  8/25/2023 - IV+ Likes this wine: 92 Points

  From Africa Gourmet, Dakar. Green bell pepper, leather and sour cherry on the nose. On the palate it’s generous while fresh at the same time with cranberry, elderberry, sour cherry again, medium+ acidity and good length. Drinking very well now but will do so for a few more years.

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  12/15/2022 - vintage_whine wrote:

  opened on purple fruit a little too ripe, and an hour later very thin and unimpressive, but at 3 hours, oh my gosh this is fully integrated, ripe but alive, sappy and green and earthy, violets and dirt and electricity. its really beautiful and could give dioterie a run for its money, but, you have to wait 3 hours, or 6 years in bottle.

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  5/9/2021 - christ80 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  good, earthy offering from Loire. Paired with French cheeses which worked well. Dark fruits, some leathery tones

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  4/2/2021 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  100% organic Cabernet Franc from a 50-yo vineyard. Fermented and macerated for 5 weeks in tronconic oak vats. Aged for 12-24 months in old oak barrels. 13% alcohol.
  
  Dark, almost fully opaque black cherry color. Fresh, crunchy and moderately dark-toned nose with aromas of tobacco, some herbaceous notes of cooked bell pepper, a little bit of blackcurrant and dark plummy fruit, light inky tones, a hint of fresh bilberry and a touch of farmhouse funk. The wine feels ripe and fruity yet dry on the palate with a medium-to-moderately full body and dark-toned flavors of bilberries and juicy blackcurrants, some plummy fruit, a little bit of farmhouse funk and leather, light tobacco notes, a hint of stony minerality and a herbaceous touch of cooked bell pepper without any obvious green tones. The structure is just on point with the rather high acidity and gently grippy medium tannins. The finish is long, slightly funky and gently grippy with a dry aftertaste of leathery funk and tobacco, some blackcurrants, light plummy tones, a little bit of cooked bell pepper, a bretty hint of stable floor and a woody touch of pencil shavings.
  
  A very tasty and serious Bourgueil that is less about classically herbaceous, green-toned Cab Franc and comes across as more like an old-school Bordeaux with its dry, dark-toned and blackcurrant-driven aromatics. You can taste that this is from a solar vintage in the emphasis on the ripe fruit tones and the lack of herbaceous greenness, but the wine is nevertheless fresh, dry and crunchy - exactly as I want my Bourgueils! All in all, a wonderfully balanced and harmonious Cabernet Franc. Drinks wonderfully now and will most likely improve for at least a handful of years more; probably peaking in 4-6 years. Terrific.

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  3/1/2020 - Madera16 Likes this wine:

  Wow this was top quality Bourgueil. Elegant raspberry and floral notes balanced with earth and a touch of bell pepper. This had real class and was really just at the start of its peak. Would have probably been even better in three years or so. Excellent.

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