Yannick Amirault
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Yannick Amirault 2005 Les Malgagnes Cabernet Franc (Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil)
- Editors' Choice
This is Amirault’s top wine from St-Nicolas. For an appellation normally seen as making light wines, this is stunning. There are dense, dusty tannins, layers of blackberry jelly flavors and rich wood tastes that balance with the fruit.
— R.V.
(4/1/2007)
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)
Yannick Amirault 2005 Les Quartiers Cabernet Franc (Bourgueil)
From 40-year-old Cabernet Franc vines, this impressive wine rolls around the mouth. There is a touch of mint and spicy wood that coat the core of intense black fruits and rich tannins. Big and fruity, but with its tannins, this is likely to age well.
— R.V.
(4/1/2007)
Yannick Amirault 2009 Les Quartiers Cabernet Franc (Bourgueil)
A wine that keeps close to the dense path of Yannick Amirault’s wines. Firm, dark and with strong elements of wood aging, this is solid and chunky. Perhaps there is a touch too much extraction, but this is mitigated by the rich black plum and berry fruits and final. lifted acidity. Age for 4–5 years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Yannick Amirault 2010 La Mine Cabernet Franc (Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil)
Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil is the lighter neighbor to Bourgueil, and this wine offers a fruity, ready-to-drink wine that has gentle tannins to go with the perfumed black cherry fruity and lively acidity. Keep for 2–3 years, but also drink now.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Yannick Amirault 2011 La Coudraye Cabernet Franc (Bourgueil)
A young and fruity wine, rich with perfumed blackberries. There are firm, youthful tannins that are covering the juicy fruits with a dry shell. As the wine develops over the next few months, it will become bold and ripely fruity.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
Yannick Amirault 2011 Rosé d’Equinoxe Cabernet Franc (Bourgueil)
A rosé that has been wood aged to produce a wine that has a toasty, smoky character to go with the more normal red berry fruits. It is rounded, ripe and full of dry, final tannins and acidity.
— R.V.
(6/1/2013)
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