Bernard Baudry, Chinon, Domaine

Lovely Chinon. Lifted red fruit, forestry nose with a touch of meatiness. Mid weight wine but with clean primary cab franc fruit. Not jubey just a fresh exuberant palate, nicely balanced. Nice wine

2020 vintage

Academics need wine too; 11/8/2024-11/9/2024 : Consistent with my notes from a year ago. Superb wine. There's a brightness and juiciness to the red fruit that makes it so easy to drink for straight visceral pleasure, but also a lovely savoury earthiness and forestal greenness around the fruit that adds plenty of depth. Stunning value at the price, and a reminder that I need to buy these more often instead of just going straight to Grezeaux.

2020 vintage

An oldschool Chinon with lots of funky notes, it’s kinda halfway through natural wine. It’s ripe but very leafy, too. Medium to full-bodied and a bit rustic, yet unforced and its alcohol is on the lower side (13%), making it easy to drink. Read more: https://screwcapped.com/bernard-baudry-chinon-le-domaine-2020/

2020 vintage

As before

2020 vintage

I love CabFranc, I love Chinon. Great typicity. Red fruit, freshness and minerality. Drying on the finish which is nice with food. Great at this level

2020 vintage

Apparently I can't keep my own advice and hold on to this for a couple of years. My last bottle was one year ago. Decanted. Now 1 hour after decant. Nice aromas of mild barnyard, green peppers, black and red cherries, blackberries, minerals, bark and mild herbs. Palate with minerals, bark, Just ripe blackberries, a bit of Earth, herbs. Medium plus body with nice acids. Mild plus tannins on the mid palate. Nice finish of tart blackberry fruit, nice minerals, …

2020 vintage

Great Chinon. Bit of cherry and natty funk. Classic Loire Cab Franc and absolutley on point right now.

2020 vintage

Now very much on point. Cool summer sunshine in a glass. Relatively light, with cranberries and raspberries on both nose and palate, and a gentle but brightly tannic finish. An excellent, easy going food wine.

2020 vintage

One of my "house" wines. It's very hard to find a better way to spend $20, in wine or otherwise. Love Baudry.

2020 vintage

Wasn't a fan. Just too rustic for me with harsh flavor and acidity. Maybe it was the year, because I've had the 2019 and that was OK. I have some of his better bottlings, I hope they show better for me.

2020 vintage

So fresh, so balanced, so French. Beautiful hint of barnyard, pure cab franc. Just rich enough to have a little sweetness, which nicely balances the slight vegetal-ness that is authentic to the variety. Begs for another sip.

2020 vintage

Flinty minerals dominate on day one.

2020 vintage

Excellent and so easy to drink. Definitely scratches the Chinon itch.

2020 vintage

Tasty stuff, not complex, but plenty of stuffing, and good, plump varietal fruit. Kind of amazed at the fine sediment this threw. A tiny bit green. 5-12-15-8: 90/100.

2020 vintage

Another terrific bottle, this one an even better showing than the last. Love the aromatics especially - bright dark berried fruit with a vibrant forestal greenness, matched by wonderful freshness and energy on the palate. I love Grezeaux and Croix Boissee, but I'm realizing I also need to buy more of this.

2020 vintage

Another winner from Baudry - dark fruit, earth, and greener herbal notes conveyed with a remarkable sense of freshness and vibrancy. So easy to drink and such a great value.

2020 vintage

GMs - Kevin back in Town again : Blind. Bright purple colour. Stalky and poopy along with black olive and blackberry. Palate has some bite to it with strong acid along the medium length. Could do with some more time (5 years?).

2020 vintage

I mean I’ll never not love a bottle Baudry but this is still pretty primary and a little awkward. You can feel what’s behind it it’s just a matter of pulling its parts from the void right now. Hold.

2020 vintage

A savory and earthy nose, scents of wet dirt, mushrooms, black berries, black currents and a slight hint of dried tomatoes. The palate starts off pleasant enough but after a few minutes in the glass a wonderfully plush and velvety taste with notes of blackberries and currants again as well as a brilliant red fruit acidity to balance and provide excellent structure. A serious and elegant wine that pairs well with food. Score: 91.

2020 vintage

my comments would mirror James Kim's

2020 vintage

Decanted. Now 40 min after decant. Moderate barnyard aromas with some blackberry fruit, mild eucalyptus, and minerals underneath. Palate w just barely ripe blackberries, minerals, mild eucalyptus, herbs, and a touch of earth. Medium body w mild tannins. Very nice acids that lends some freshness to the wine. The oak comes through in a woody texture rather than flavors of vanilla or spice. Nice moderately short finish of fruit, a bit of barnyard and tannins. This is young and hiding …

2020 vintage

Dark fruit (cherry, slight blueberry, slight cassis), nice pepper, earth, slight herbal, good acidity. Lingering finish. Really enjoyable.

2020 vintage

Bright red fruits and good acidity. Roasted peppers in back. A pleasant apéritif but more impressively, a good food wine. Let it breathe for an hour. Excellent value.

2020 vintage

Classic early drinking CF. Cherries on nose, with a bit of barnyard funk and earth. Nice acidity, gentle tannins, great VFM.

2020 vintage

Very floral, sandalwood, cherry, rose, some green pepper

2020 vintage

At a pretty perfect place. Black cherry, herbs, cigarbox, just a hint of animal. Tannins resolved, acids in balance. Fred tastes and immediately orders some 2015 Baudry. Great showing for a $15 wine cellared for a decade +. A-

2005 vintage

nose - rose, celery mouth - celery infused, minerally and clean, nice

2005 vintage

I thought that I had finished all of these off, but found a couple bottles in a box that was supposed to contain 2010s. What a nice surprise! The wine is fully resolved, but not without shape. Dark earth, game and herbs with dried red and black fruits. Minerals on the nose and the finish. Really a lovely bottle, certainly among the best I've had from this vintage. I'm not sure these words are truly doing it justice.

2005 vintage

The Embodiment of Memory (Bob's House - Alexandria, VA) : Explosive nose - certainly the least subtle of the evening! This had dark berries, mushrooms, and a wonderfully spiced potpourri note to it. Loved the palate intensity with a great core of dark fruit, underlying mushroom broth, clove and allspice notes. One of the more youthful wines of the night, this has plenty of structure and stuffing to last a while longer. Contender for my WOTN.

1997 vintage

5th time trying this win from my cellar and nowhere as good as first 4. Possible bottle variation. Dark garnet in color. A lot of barnyard on the nose, which lasted through the entire bottle, and some cherry, if you sniffed deep enough. Very dry sour cherry and earth on the palate. Kept looking for the fruit found in prior bottles, but not present. Average/good/drinkable is the best you could say for it.Disappointing for the vintage.

2005 vintage

Good stuff. Great acidity. Black cherry, black raspberry, pine needles. Good fruit, EtOH a touch bold. Mercy says Cuban food, pepper steak.

2005 vintage

Baudry seems to me to be the standard for all Cabernet franc wines. A beautiful wine on beautiful evening: every time I took a sip, I found myself surprised by how lovely it was, how refreshing. It's sweetly fruited on the nose and palate, with blackberry and floral notes, but its ripeness is framed by a well-delineated lattice of savory and green flavors--tobacco, an umami-meaty salinity, and herbs--as well as near-perfect balance and structure.

2005 vintage

4th bottle consumed over last 8 months. Very consistent, although not as much fruit as prior bottles. 100% cabernet franc. Nice food wine. Dark purple in color with cherry and blueberry on the nose. Earthy quality on the palate with some cedar and cassis. Tannin gone. Well made with a good qpr.

2005 vintage

Dark garnet. Nice nose of cherry, blueberry and spice. Opened and poured. Initial glass somewhat restrained. Evolved over time into a smooth fruit forward wine with mostly cherry and plum on the palate. Nice food wine with very good QPR.

2005 vintage

Great Chinon, especially for the money (~$18). Nice body, flowery, chalky tannins that dissolve a little over time. Mild tar, herbs. Hint of sweet and sour. Nice depth.

2005 vintage

Nice food wine. Dark cherry red. Nice nose of black currant, cherry and.earth. Balanced palate of cherry, earth and a hint of minerality. Good qpr. Ready to go, but should age well for a few years.

2005 vintage

very good bottle, particularly the nose which has nice raspberries and a distinctive vegetal / herbal quality. nothing special, just very good entry level stuff from a great producer.

2005 vintage

I have been working on this over 4 days now, and it is still going strong. Great earthy character - real barnyard stuff here. I am certainly liking it better with a few days to breathe - it was a bit brusque upon first impression. I think with some age this will be real nice. Needs food to shine.

2005 vintage

A nice gulpable food wine with a fine qpr. 100% cab franc. Dark cherry red with a nice nose of cherry, plum and earth. Sweet and smooth on the palate with mostly cherry and some mineral flavors. A touch of tannin which should soon go away.

2005 vintage

just a few months of bottle age has really helped this wine. it still begins a bit reticent, the concentration the most noticeable characteristic. but the wine opens up with pretty intense tobacco smells and dark cherries, and the nose is really quite lovely. sweet red and black fruits on the palate and a pleasantly rustic graininess, some herbal undertones. this is an excellent chinon, particularly at the entry level.

2005 vintage

Tough to judge at this point. Dark red, but not quite opaque. Smell is wood, cherry and spice. First taste is a lot of wood. Fruit was hiding. Very slight cherry. Drying tannins on finish. Better with food.

2005 vintage

Too young to really know for sure what's going on here. Deep ruby color with dark fruit and mineral aromas, iron in particular. There is some spicy capsicum, some earthy tobacco, some ripe dark fruit, but all swirling around in an adolescent mess. On day two this is better, but it's kind of hard to see exactly what's happening. Lots of potential.

2005 vintage

Nice, another one right down the middle. Some violets, some lead pencil. Everything in place. How do they do it?

2005 vintage

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