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Region: |
Chinon, Loire, France |
Varietal: |
Cabernet Franc |
Classification: |
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Importer: |
Weygandt-Metzler |
Score: |
92+JG |
Review: |
"Les Cornuelles is one of my favorite terroirs in Chinon, though its combination of clay,
flint and limestone tends to produce robust examples that require extended cellaring to really
blossom. Monsieur Plouzeau farms fifty-five year-old vines in les Cornuelles and his 2016
version is an outstanding wine in the making, offering up a deep and very promising bouquet of
in Chinon, though its combination of clay, flint and limestone tends to produce robust examples
that require extended cellaring to really blossom. Monsieur Plouzeau farms fifty-five year-old
vines in les Cornuelles and his 2016 version is an outstanding wine in the making, offering up a
deep and very promising bouquet of cassis, dark berries, cigar smoke, dark soil tones, a bit of
tree bark and a nice topnote of the spit-roasted game one can find from this vineyard. On the
palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a fine core, excellent
transparency and grip, ripe, well-integrated tannins and a long, tightly-knit, but very well balanced finish. This is going to be excellent in the fullness of time, but it is a puppy today!" |
Staff Notes:
."Les Cornuelles is one of my favorite terroirs in Chinon, though its combination of clay, flint and limestone tends to produce robust examples that require extended cellaring to reallyblossom. Monsieur Plouzeau farms fifty-five year-old vines in les Cornuelles and his 2016 version is an outstanding wine in the making, offering up a deep and very promising bouquet of in Chinon, though its combination of clay, flint and limestone tends to produce robust examples that require extended cellaring to really blossom. Monsieur Plouzeau farms fifty-five year-old vines in les Cornuelles and his 2016 version is an outstanding wine in the making, offering up a deep and very promising bouquet of cassis, dark berries, cigar smoke, dark soil tones, a bit of tree bark and a nice topnote of the spit-roasted game one can find from this vineyard. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a fine core, excellent transparency and grip, ripe, well-integrated tannins and a long, tightly-knit, but very well balanced finish. This is going to be excellent in the fullness of time, but it is a puppy today!" 92+ Points John Gilman, View From The Cellar