Recent Magazine Reviews
Recent Magazine Reviews are wine, spirit and beer reviews with an issue date since February 18.
Château la Varière 2010 Les Guerches Chenin Blanc (Quarts de Chaume)
- Cellar Selection
- $55
A golden, liquorous wine, ripe honey and botrytis, yellow fruits and the most intense richness. The contrast is between the botrytis texture and crisp orange zest acidity that offers a beautifully balance wine for long-term aging.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Château la Varière 2009 Les Roches Chenin Blanc (Bonnezeaux)
- Cellar Selection
- $45
A powerfully concentrated wine, its ripe yellow fruits smoothly filling the mouth with their unctuous honeyed character. Ginger and other spices add an edge to this gorgeous, full wine that needs aging over many years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Jean-Maurice Raffault 2010 Clos d’Isoré Cabernet Franc (Chinon)
- Editors' Choice
- $24
A seven-acre vineyard surrounding an ancient castle, with vines planted in 1938. They give a densely concentrated and powerful wine, with wood and sweet, fleshy red fruits allied to delicious acidity. The whole structure promises long-term aging—give it five years or more.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Charles Joguet 2010 Clos de la Dioterie Cabernet Franc (Chinon)
- Cellar Selection
- $52
With vineyards on the south bank of the Vienne river, facing Chinon, the Charles Joguet style is firm and tannic, with a need for aging. This wine is proof, big, structured, very firm and concentrated. Tannins dominate now, but the fruit is all there, a panoply of ripe blackberries, impressively rich and succulent. Age this wine for five years and more.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Yannick Amirault 2010 La Petite Cave Cabernet Franc (Bourgueil)
- Cellar Selection
An impressively rich, firmly tannic and dark wine. It shows less of the Cabernet Franc perfume than of its strong structure and black currant fruits. There is an austere line of minerality that shows the wine’s youth. Keep this wine for 4–5 years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Yannick Amirault 2009 Le Grand Clos Cabernet Franc (Bourgueil)
- Cellar Selection
One of Amirault’s single parcel wines, this is a rich and smoothly tannic. There is a black fruit and smoky wood element, while big juicy fruits dominate the firm structure, giving a wine that has both potential and drinkability sooner. Age this powerful wine for 4–5 years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Bernard Baudry 2010 Les Grézeaux Cabernet Franc (Chinon)
- $26
From clay and silex soil at the foot of the hill behind the Baudry house, this solid, richly fruity wine brings out both concentrated tannins and opulent, red berry flavors. Showing the great potential structure from old vines, this is a wine for aging over at least six years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Bernard Baudry 2010 Le Clos Guillot Cabernet Franc (Chinon)
- Cellar Selection
- $30
A chalk soil vineyard gives this very mineral interpretation of Loire Cabernet Franc. It has richness, weight, solid, ageworthy tannins as well as juicy red fruits. Dried fruits and just a hint of herbal acidity add complexity to a wine that is still young. Age for 5–6 years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
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