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

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

Chip Hughes

9.2

Needs a couple of days open for the brett-stink to settle down. Afterwards, it’s raspberry, wrapper leaf and an appropriate and savory Cab Franc stemminess. This may be something special in a few years. — 6 years ago

Servus Andrea

9.6

Deliciously flinty and vibrant — 7 years ago

Mike Steffel

8.9

Wonderful Cab Franc Rose. We will be drinking a lot of this one. — 8 years ago

R. S. Douglass

9.0

Yum! I love the rose season. This is a clean, crisp rose... I would drink it anytime from April thru September. It reminds us of our trip thru the Loire Valley. — 9 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.0

Classic, rustic cab franc. The slightly warm vintage shows here by pushing the vegetal flavors behind lots of red and black fruit. Needs food. — 10 years ago

Joe Briand

8.9

Super pretty fresh deep franc fruit — 10 years 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

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

Yuki Watanabe

9.0

Ripe citrus fruits on the nose, good amount of acid but slight of sweetness almost like a baked apple — 5 years ago

Timothy Lynch

9.1

This is an excellent modern-day entry level Cabernet Franc. Dazzlingly simple, yet awash with refreshing weight, dark fruit, Chinese spices, and a subtle dollop of black/green tea. If you are looking for something less obvious go back to red Burgundy. (This red straddles old world structure with new world gloss. I fear gloss will eventually win out. But for now...👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾) — 6 years ago

Mike Deutsch

9.0

One of my favorite go to wines — 7 years ago

Tom Wood

9.0

Damp soil, cut grass, cut parsley, Blackcurrant, dried leaves, raspberry and shaved pencil. Fantastic value for money here — 9 years ago

Akiva Leeder

9.4

Earthy delight - well balanced — 9 years ago

Nicolas Bazinet

9.2

2010
Très grande matière, tonne de réglisse. — 10 years ago

with Sylvain

Nicolas Bazinet

9.1

Beaucoup de chair, super équilibré, vraiment délicieux, coup de cœur. — 12 years 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

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

Robert Duncan

9.0

Tart cherry and dryness but mucho sabor — 5 years ago

Andy Mannix

9.5

Delicious with our homemade pizza! — 6 years ago

Douglas Braun

8.9

Like this wine but doesn’t have the power that some of his other wines have pencil lead iron cherry fruit - liked it from an aromatic standpoint more than flavor and finish — 7 years ago

Olivia Hellewell

9.3

Drinkable AF. — 8 years ago

Philippe Dupuis

8.9

Exuberant fruit, no vegetal notes, round texture. Buy and re-buy. — 9 years ago

Noelle Lothamer

8.9

Love at first sip, thanks @jarred gild! — 10 years ago

Pierre Chevallier

8.9

Very good, totally cherry oriented — 10 years ago