Matt Perlman

9.2

Holding up the best of a trio of sketchy old Loire reds. With air this reveals black currant, mesquite, tobacco, tomato leaf and slightest hint of raspberry. Still excellent but needs food — 5 months ago

John Howard

Harvest production at Hirsch and Cobb Wineries

9.1

Very nice. Old school style. — 5 months ago

Erik Longabardi

9.1

Sometimes you go basic and it’s wonderful — 7 months ago

Daniel Sullivan

9.3

Purple edged garnet color.
BlackBerry forest floor nose.
Medium plus bodied with tangy acid and velvety tannins — 8 months ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.1

Bright medium ruby , perhaps a little more ruby on the rim than the Clos de la Dioterie . More sweetly fruited , with more red fruits than dark , spiced cherry , strawberry, raspberry , rose , roast red pepper, cranberry. Quite rounded tannin , balanced acidity . On the palate mixed summer fruits with strawberry , red cherry with good density, quite juicy but well balanced . Roasted pepper , spicy cherry , wet slate infused finish with medium length. This probably will improve over the next 5 or so years and last well a further 5-8 — 10 months ago

Matt P

9.2

Dark olive and bay leaf with plum. Hint of charcoal — 4 years ago

Scot McIntosh

9.0

On another day, I’d love this. Too serious for today. — 5 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.1

Vintage 2015 | Italian rooftiles coloured rim, spicy smell and nicely developed velvety taste. Chinon that is aged can be só comforting. Cab franc shines. Paired with a simple but good spaghetti meatballs tomatosauce. It makes my day. — 5 months ago

Adam Straight

9.2

Perfect with a pasta and overall a very good wine — 6 months ago

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Matt Perlman

9.2

Absolutely beautiful and crowd pleasing thanksgiving wine. Mouth watering acidity, bell pepper, black currant, blackberries, raspberries, herbs and forest floor. — 7 months ago

Roberto Carli

9.4

Opened a great wine at the wrong time. Clocking at 35yo, like a wise grandpa it has wisdom to share but only talks when it’s quiet. Right after opening it has a mix of ripe, evolved pyrazines but with an hour or so the black olives are there in your face like in cote rotie, with a touch of their brine but without the VA you would expect. dried black fruit makes an appearance, even a medium bodied texture (!!!) which already isn’t Chinon’s strength and fine tannins still with some good grip, leading to a bright lingering acidity. Of course it can’t stay too long in the glass as the age shows some fragility. Still, it delivers — 10 months ago

Kristen Carlson-Bye

9.0

Crisp, clean with kiwi hints and nerds candy — 3 years ago

Nicolas Bazinet

8.9

Délicieux, gourmand à fond, grande buvabilité — 5 years ago

James Everhart

8.9

Drinking well in early 2025 for the 2018 vintage. It took a few years to get off the rough edges. $21. — 5 months ago

Naboth van den Broek

9.0

Beautiful with duck confit with a cassis and shallot sauce — 5 months ago

Jason Sliwa

9.3

This had an oxidized style, which I think/think is consistently this producer’s style? It was delicious and precise nonetheless. — 7 months ago

Carmen

9.4

Silky smooth tannin, with a dark fruits and bit of earth and spice - far more elegant and complex than the price tag suggests!! Drink this wine!! — 8 months ago

Richard Portes

9.1

17+ full, long — 3 years ago

Erika Turner

9.5

Perfect chinon — 4 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.4

Nose has chalkboard dust, mashed cherries, raspberry, ripe currant, oak bark, (minor) moist garden soil, milk chocolate bar and moist pipe tobacco.

Palate has crushed cherries, orange peel, ripe black currant, blackberry, graphite and medium tannins. Long finish, amazing bottle this evening.

About two years since our last bottle, doing very, very well this evening, can hold another 6-12Y (2026-32) in proper storage. — 5 years ago