Last night with scotch eggs and Jersey Royals, Huge extract and youth, steely aromatic clasic CF nose. Raspberries and plums, raw tannins, yet so drinkable. This could live for a few years.
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TN Chinon Baudry, Le Grange 2005
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Thanks for the note, John. To me, Baudry is one of the top producers of the Touraine. I'd expect that the "Le Granges" has a long life ahead of it.
Mark Lipton
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I'm a Baudry fan, too. Planning on giving my '02 Granges another year or two. The Les Granges is the basic bottling, so probably not a 15 year wine. Haven't had the 04 (wish I had!).
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Eggs are always a hard match, even Scotch Eggs, but I invariably head for the Loire reds too. (We're fortunate to have a cleaning lady who supplies us with 6 of the most sublime eggs every week, in exchange for our stale bread (which goes to her rabbits). When you're tired, nothing beats a quick omelet made with these, some charlotte potatoes from the neighbor and butter from another; usually with a Chinon a little lighter than this Granges!).
A little quibble: the "basic bottling" is the domaine wine, Les Granges is a step up in price if not always in quality. (The '89 Domaine Baudry that Bernard and Christophe opened for Santiago and I recently was quite simply sublime).
Meant to post this anyway, last week had a bottle of Baudry - Dutour Chinon (06) at lunch in a local restaurant. This is made by Christophe (the younger Baudry) and Vincent Dutour, and is marketed separately from the Baudry label. The wine was elegant and balanced, with round dark fruit and a soft finish. I found a hard green note which seemed distracting, but as my companions were greatly enjoying didn't mention it (especially as I had chosen). A nice little lunch wine at 16 EU.
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Ha! I live and learn. And, most humbly, remember that Dale probably tastes more wines in a weekend than I do in 3 months...
Definitely, lets plan on it!
-E
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Emery Davis wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:
Emery,
I had the very same thought yesterday, after reading the original message. But then checked and found that for vintages 2005 and 2006, Les Granges is actually cheaper (and listed before) than Domaine in their price lists (I only have the wine lists for these yeares). Not a very big different and probably a bit misleading, but the wines are anyway so good that it is not really a problem.
I'll be back to Angers in October, do you think we could meet again?
Best,
s.