2007 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon La Croix Boissée

Community Tasting Notes (50) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  8/25/2024 - winchester-xi Likes this wine:

  A really lovely bottle. All of the features you’d expect at this age, but with a very quiet, understated depth and generosity. Can’t figure out if something was wrong with my last bottle or I just had a bad tasting night back then. In any event, this vintage is unfairly maligned in the central Loire, as various producers turned out very good reds.

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  5/26/2024 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- decanted approx. 1 hr. before initial taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over approx. 3 hrs. --
  
  NOSE: sweet plum and cherry fruit leather aromas; moderately expressive, and no obvious brett.
  
  BODY: no chunky sediment, which was a bit surprising -- just some superfine particulate matter; blood red - violet color of medium-deep depth with some bricking throughout; medium to medium-full bodied.
  
  TASTE: pyrazine and tanned leather wash over plummy Cab. Franc goodness on the palate; some garrigue; medium+ to high acidity; a touch warm from the alc.. Drinking well enough, I suppose, and it is very enjoyable, but I can't escape the feeling it's in a bit of an awkward stage right now --- it seemed a bit blocky. Drink or Hold.

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  7/30/2021 - DaleW wrote: flawed

  Corked!

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  10/29/2020 - 5laton wrote:

  Late night bottle, so only brief impressions. While approachable this was a somewhat backwards showing, on whose basis I would not pop further corks for at least 2-3 years.
  On day 2 this is pretty with cocoa on the nose; crystalline red fruit and sous-bois on the palate, and nice bottle sweetness. I was slightly disappointed at the lack of tobacco or green pepper notes.
  I plan to hold my remaining bottles 3 to 5 years before opening another.

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  10/28/2020 - SteveG wrote: 93 Points

  From memory, this was delicious, choice CF with great intensity and balance, and slightly rustic. Excellent with flatiron steak chimichurri.

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