Bernard Baudry Chinon La Croix Boissee 2012

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Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2012

Size
750ML

ABV
13%

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

A complex, powerful wine with firm tannins, unctuous, with aromas of very ripe fruit. A wine that will benefit from being laid down for several years to reveal its full potential.

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    Baudry farms just over an acre of chenin blanc on clay and white limestone soils, producing a wine that’s pure umami. Give it time in the glass for oxygen to fill out the scratchy acidity and the bitter olive pit flavors. What emerges is a white with orange cream refinement, scents of goat milk and vanilla, still austere but fuller and more caressing. Decant it for scallops served over a creamy parsnip puree.
  • 90
    This has hit its stride, with a solid core of steeped plum and black cherry fruit melded with smoldering charcoal, sweet tapenade and singed bay leaf notes. The long, fleshy finish reveals an echo of rosemary. Drink now through 2020. 30 cases imported.

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Bernard Baudry

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Bernard Baudry, France
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Bernard Baudry is unquestionably one of Chinon’s most outstanding producers. Not only does he have the talent to make delicious and consistent wines, vintage to vintage, but he is also fortunate to have vineyard land that showcases the varied soil types of the appellation. After completing his viticultural studies in Beaune, Bernard returned to the Loire Valley and purchased his first two hectares of land in Cravant-les-Coteaux, a village from which almost half of the production of A.O.C. Chinon is sourced. Over the years, the domaine has grown to 25 hectares and Bernard’s son, Matthieu, has joined the family domaine. The Baudrys are staunch traditionalists, and you would have a hard time finding a Chinon more classic than theirs.

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Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.

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An important red wine appellation in the Touraine district of the Loire, Chinon produces fanciful, light-bodied reds from the Cabernet Franc grape. Chinon also makes charming rosés from the same grape as well as white wines from Chenin blanc. But the reds give the area its fame. Often scented with fresh herbs, black tea and violets, Chinon reds show a lovely combination of fruit and acidity. However, styles have become more concentrated and ripe in recent years from improvements in vineyard management. Modern methods include planting grass between vineyard rows, using higher trellises and deleafing to increase sunlight to berries and therefore improve ripening. Even still, red Chinon is intended to be a light to medium bodied, refreshing wine to be enjoyed in its youth.

Fuller-bodied Chinons come from vineyard sites on the clay and tuffeau limestone slopes, usually from the southern exposed slopes of Cravant-les-Coteaux, and the plateau above Beaumont. Lighter styled wines come from the sand and gravel vineyards near the Loire or Vienne Rivers with the most refined examples coming from the area around Panzoult

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