1999 Philippe Alliet Chinon Coteau de Noiré

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 89 points

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  5/27/2015 - eboracum Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This is a better bottle than one last August judging by my then notes. Medium body with some depth, clay and lively acidity still apply but the fruit seems slightly sweeter with raspberry notes more than sour cherry and the wet leather notes are much less marked. Still a firm finish but I did not note shortness this time.

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  8/27/2014 - eboracum wrote: 88 Points

  Colour deep for Chinon with little bricking. Nose of sour cherry, clay and wet leather. Savoury charactered medium bodied palate with some depth, lively acidity and fruit more prominent than on the nose opposite the clay and wet leather components. Well supported finish which would, however, benefit from more length. Those wet leather notes are probably provided by brett but, in moderation as here, are for me a welcome part of Chinon complexity and typicity, which many modernists are trying to eliminate. The brett allergic should, however, abstain.

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