TN: '06 basic Chinon from Bernard Baudry

With marinated flank steak, a broccoli/red pepper salad, and a green salad, the 2006 Baudry Chinon. This is just the base bottling, about $16. Young but quite tasty, blackberries and black cherries with a light floral note and good length. Good acidity, firm but not hard tannins, this should probably age but I enjoyed last night. Plenty big enough to stand up to rare meat, but handles the peppery spice of the marinade too. Accidental match, but hard to imagine anything doing better. A fine wine for the price, B++

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

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DaleW
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DaleW wrote in news:d29de741-241d-47f9-9463-75d49093d1d0 @a12g2000pro.googlegroups.com:

So interesting!!!

Emery and I were chez Baudry last october and we both agree that the wines did not show that well, specially when compared to the wonderful 2005s we had tasted the year before in a previous visit.

In the meantime I have read John Gilman's gazette and he raves about the

2006s. I guess it is time to taste a couple of bottles.

s.

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whocares

Just read John's note, he's more poetic than I am (I might well have read before buying this, can't recall, but I respect his tastes on Loire). Maybe they were just at an awkward stage then. I have a lone bottle of the '05 of this, but I also have 1 or 2 of the '05Granges and ';05 Grezeaux (sp?)

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DaleW

Yes, really curious. I was really put off by the development of the 06, and not only didn't buy but I wouldn't have recommended it as typical of the Baudry's work. I much preferred the 07s, much I think to the annoyance of Matthew (I think Bernard preferred to 07s also).

No tired slightly flabby notes at all from Dale's bottle.

It's enough to make you wonder if we tasted the same wine! :) Anyway if they were just awkward, it was very awkward indeed. But such can certainly happen. Santiago, we'll have to verify these bottles next visit!

-E

P.S. had a Huet LHL sec the other night, bought during the same trip, it was really fabulous!

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Emery Davis

It's hard to imagine from this wine that your complaints were tiredness or flabbiness. Definitely plenty of bright acids, and still showing fairly fresh on day 2.

What was vintage on the le Haut Lieu? Not that they're not all great. I have the '05, but wish I had more

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DaleW

Ah, the mystery of it all... ;)

Yeah, sorry, should have said. An 07. Great example of fine maker making the very best of a mediocre (at best!) year. Wish I had some

05...

-E

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Emery Davis

A fine wine for the price, B++

the 2005 Les Granges is magic at GBP13 a bottle

JT from a rather strange white UK

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John T

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