2004 Yannick Amirault Bourgueil La Petite Cave

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  5/25/2016 - eboracum Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A few years ago a bottle of this wine was tight and tannic. It has certainly opened up by now but still seems quite youthful. Colour quite dense with little bricking. Nose mainly on notes of quite sharp berry fruit, minerals and graphite. Palate medium+ bodied, quite discreet on entry but builds up and deepens on mid-palate and towards the medium length finish showing a gracious face of the berry fruit, some old-fashioned noble greenness (deplored by some but not by me when in moderation like here), more graphite and minerals with still fresh acidity and firm structure. Yannick Amirault seeks ripeness in his wines; sometimes I think he overdoes it but not here where the overall result combines liveliness, elegance and some depth. Very good.

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