Clos Rougeard Saumur Blanc Brézé
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1993 |
Fresh, fruited, green fig nose, faint oxidative hints, bright attack yet waxy textured, threaded acidity and exceptionally persistent. Super long. Ridiculously mouthwatering. Desert Island stuff, like a tuning fork in its intensity.
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2000 |
Perfume and camphor nose, rose petals, a dry vermouth-like spirity-ness. Herbal and the freshness builds with almost the same supreme length as 1993
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Blanc Brézé
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2005 |
Quince nose. Sandalwood and white flowers. Enormous intensity, primary, coiled. Give it 10 years
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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1976 |
Corky nose, damp cardboard, metallic palate at first. Jordi reckoned this wasn't corked. He was right, after an hour it had cleaned up, Still, the second bottle for the other table had creamy fruit, and was lovely. The only below par bottle of the night as it turned out on our table - so we can count ourselves lucky.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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1985 |
Dusty nose but this has energy and a progression that is proper. Lovely finish. Overall a highly strung wine. Trying hard to present a beautiful public face but the age-lines are there. On its downward descent.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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1986 |
Animal, leathery nose, bright, mouthwatering a little dry in the mid palate, over the other side of its plateau. Lovely mouthwatering finish nonetheless. I hour later just a touch spirity but a little more integrated and a touch of alcohol on the finish now the fruit is fading. Past its best.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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1988 |
Great herbal nose, with an anis background and a touch of game. Ah, this is more like it. Lovely density and progression, fantastic energy and enormous length. This has lovely poise.
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| Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg' |
1989 |
Darkly perfumed nose, a touch of cedar, warm entry, licorice and a little spice, and the spice is tangible too with a heady mid-palate. Very satisfying. Lifted, blackcurrant leaf finish. Long
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| Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg' |
1990 |
Red fruits and cedar nose, enormous energy and brilliant finish. Great length and more of an expression of Bordeaux that any other of the night thus far.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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1993 |
Pure nose, heady and spiced, redcurrenty undercurrent. Velvety palate, sweet, a little taste of heaven. Supremely integrated with an elegantly veined length.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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1994 |
Extremely pure nose of licorice and peppercorn, so very gently sweet and svelte, so silken and smooth. The perfect sweetness. Strawberries on the finish and then a mouthwatering pithy finale.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg'
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1995 |
Damp wool and perfumed nose. Sheep dipped in Joy par Jean Patou! On the palate the wine delivers a knock out punch. Not sweet, not dry. Aromatic. Sappy (in the best sense of the word) fresh finish. Such shape to the wine. Haute Couture, shaped like an hourglass.
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| Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux' |
1995 |
Nose of pure seduction. Silky and cedary, liquory texture thanks to melted tannins. Fully resolved. Rose infused mid-palate, intensity without weight, vibrant, heady finish
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg'
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1996 |
Crystalline nose. Alluring organic nose like sleeping next to someone. Burgundian weight. Dark flashes of fruit, interspersed with brighter notes, like shafts of light. Vibrant and heady length. Tonight's expression of Burgundy and what an expression! Warm finish but the warmth does not come from alcohol. Visceral. Perfection. Sherbetty profile on the finish. This went so well with the gorgeous lamb served by the Noble Rot team.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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1999 |
Delicate nose, fabulous aromatics, striking palate. Delightful fruitiness and exuberance with the prickliness of acidity on the finish.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg'
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2000 |
Wood box nose, whiff of varnish, deep warm attack. Huge. Needs a bit more time.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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2002 |
Yeasty, bready nose, tight entry, citrus fruit, grapefruit, big flavours, boisterous wine. Lovely dry finish. Lots of concentration. Young. Will be one for the future. Tremendous potential.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg'
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2005 |
Spiced nose, oranges and mulberries. The warmth of Bourg, liquory texture, like a dry version of Cointreau. The orange in there continues into the finish.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg'
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2007 |
Creamy nose, preserved lemons and white pepper, like a lemon posset - creamy attack, sticky ripe fruit, yet sherbetty on the mid palate. Very, very long.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Le Bourg'
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2008 |
Potential writ large. Enormous concentration. Pithy, really pithy. Rapier like focus. All about the future. It's impossible to pin down, with at first a dark finish, then a bright finish. Amazing undercurrent of intense fruit.
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Clos Rougeard Saumur Saumur-Champigny 'Les Poyeux'
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2010 |
Round, ripe fruit. Fruity and yeasty. Intense fruit, on the terrific attack. Sticky lip-smacking fruit, fresh and plenty of potential. Great focus, like a corsetted wine. Extraordinary length
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