Funk and barnyard blew off slowly to reveal really nice stewed black cherries and wet leather aromas. Acidity is still there, and the green pepper showed up after some time in glass. Black plum and forest floor with a very nice mineral and acid twang, and decent length. Didn’t get better after 3 or 4 hours open, but took an hour or so in glass to come alive.
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Absolutely no need for panic here -- if you have this and you like to drink your wines with a smattering of maturity, then you have a ten- or fifteen-year drinking window and we are at the early end of it. Opened this last night, poured a small taste right away, and then replaced the cork in the bottle for a dinner party two hours later in the evening. This never was less than charming to me as well as to my fellow partygoers, none of whom (other than myself) are notable funky wine lovers. It may be further along in its development than one might expect from such a structure-driven terroir, and it is probably not a 30-year wine, but it is a terrific 10-year wine. Despite the provenance and cool vintage there's not much in the way of green leafy notes or pondwater to work through, instead it's generous, purple-toned, tobacco-inflected Cab Franc fruit. I could actually have wished for a bit more funk and textural grit, but much like the people who made it, this is impossible not to like.
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Well coloured; understated nose, lead pencils & leafy tinged, low-key fruit; brett & gamey notes initially to fore as this opened up & filled out, warm & inviting texture; positive finish. Holding up well. 24 hours on, retained integrity.
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7/7/2022 - centropomus wrote: 91 Points
Funk and barnyard blew off slowly to reveal really nice stewed black cherries and wet leather aromas. Acidity is still there, and the green pepper showed up after some time in glass. Black plum and forest floor with a very nice mineral and acid twang, and decent length. Didn’t get better after 3 or 4 hours open, but took an hour or so in glass to come alive.
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1/26/2017 - Rollerball wrote: 88 Points
Breton Bourgueil Perrières Vertical (Arlequin Wine Merchant, San Francisco): Effusive nose. Classic profile but uneven. Some of the candy corn notes we're seeing in this producer (or at least in the Perrieres). Medium bodied but currents of earthy density. Too ripe but not holistically ripe.
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1/26/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
Breton Bourgueil Perrières Vertical (Arlequin Wine Merchant, San Francisco): Light center. More green olive. Light body, some sap, not much fruit. Tart, dry, somewhat lean finish. Not great but one of the better vintages of the tasting.
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8/9/2015 - Arinbraghe Likes this wine:
Absolutely no need for panic here -- if you have this and you like to drink your wines with a smattering of maturity, then you have a ten- or fifteen-year drinking window and we are at the early end of it. Opened this last night, poured a small taste right away, and then replaced the cork in the bottle for a dinner party two hours later in the evening. This never was less than charming to me as well as to my fellow partygoers, none of whom (other than myself) are notable funky wine lovers. It may be further along in its development than one might expect from such a structure-driven terroir, and it is probably not a 30-year wine, but it is a terrific 10-year wine. Despite the provenance and cool vintage there's not much in the way of green leafy notes or pondwater to work through, instead it's generous, purple-toned, tobacco-inflected Cab Franc fruit. I could actually have wished for a bit more funk and textural grit, but much like the people who made it, this is impossible not to like.
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5/13/2012 - chbeaumont wrote: 87 Points
Well coloured; understated nose, lead pencils & leafy tinged, low-key fruit; brett & gamey notes initially to fore as this opened up & filled out, warm & inviting texture; positive finish. Holding up well. 24 hours on, retained integrity.
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