2017 Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny Terres Chaudes

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  1/5/2024 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Pretty awful on opening - very bretty and rather thin, so I recorked it and came back a couple of days later. As with the 2015, this greatly improved it, so if not, decanting is a must. This is very different to the other more expensive cuvées: much more savoury, with black rather than red fruits on the nose and palate, plus leather and hints of meat. Far from unpleasant but certainly different. The fruit is altogether less crunchy too, so the overall impression is much closer to that of a "normal" S-C. I liked it a lot, but I wouldn't keep it for too long.

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  2/9/2021 - Stanrocks Likes this wine: 89 Points

  WSET 3, blind, Loire flight
  
  A bit of funk first, quite smelly... barnyard :)
  
  after a good aeration, nice flowery, violet and cherry, dark berries, light oak, sooth, and smoke... mushroom
  
  palate is quite acid still, vibrant, and fruity, with a good power, ok ... needs a bit more time surely

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  9/27/2020 - IJC Likes this wine:

  Easy drinking Cab Franc, less the assertive mineral and tannic edges of Chinon, ample fruit, dark but not brooding.
  
  Rated +1 on a scale of -1 to +3.

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  7/12/2020 - Jeanda Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Nez intense de fruits rouges et noirs. Bouche mûr et fraîche, d'une grande intensité aromatique. Très gourmand, un poil, bien équilibré même si le fruit paraît légèrement sucré. A boire dès aujourd'hui.

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  2/14/2020 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points

  At Gauthier: wild, gamey, funky, but with a blast of cab franc fruit blaring through it - exciting wine

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