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| Region: |
Chinon, Loire, France |
| Varietal: |
Cabernet Franc |
| Classification: |
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| Importer: |
Weygandt-Metzler |
| Score: |
92JG |
| Review: |
"Marc Plouzeau makes great wines and his 2018 les Lisons bottling of Chinon is the first red I have tasted from this highly-touted vintage. The wine is made from a parcel of fifty year-old vines and the 2018 version offers up a deep and ripe bouquet of black cherries, sweet dark berries, cigar wrapper, dark soil tones, a bit of tree bark and a very smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full bodied and rock solid at the core, with ripe, well integrated tannins, plenty of backend volume and a long, focused and palate-staining finish. This is an excellent young wine, coming in at 13.5 percent octane and quite reminiscent of the young 2005 reds in the central Loire. It will need some bottle age to blossom properly, but it will be excellent." |
Staff Notes:
"Marc Plouzeau makes great wines and his 2018 les Lisons bottling of Chinon is the first red I have tasted from this highly-touted vintage. The wine is made from a parcel of fifty year-old vines and the 2018 version offers up a deep and ripe bouquet of black cherries, sweet dark berries, cigar wrapper, dark soil tones, a bit of tree bark and a very smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full bodied and rock solid at the core, with ripe, well integrated tannins, plenty of backend volume and a long, focused and palate-staining finish. This is an excellent young wine, coming in at 13.5 percent octane and quite reminiscent of the young 2005 reds in the central Loire. It will need some bottle age to blossom properly, but it will be excellent."!" 92 Points John Gilman, View From The Cellar