2021 Chateau de la Bonneliere Chinon Les Cornuelles [JG94+]

Producer: Chateau de la Bonneliere 
Region: Chinon, Touraine, Loire, France  
Varietal: Cabernet Franc  
Year: 2021 

John Gilman, 94+ Points 

"The 2019 Chinon “les Cornuelles” from Marc Plouzeau is an outstanding young wine. The vines are just about sixty years of age now and Monsieur Plouzeau ages the wine is older four hundred and fifty liter barrels. The 2019 les Cornuelles offers up a deep and sappy bouquet of sweet dark berries, cassis, a touch of menthol, cigar wrapper, a complex base of dark soil tones, plenty of smokiness and a dollop of tree bark in the upper register. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and rock solid at the core, with lovely sappiness and elegance, a fine undertow of soil tones, ripe, firm tannins and outstanding length and grip on the poised and impeccably balanced finish. This is still a young wine by any stretch of the imagination and will demand cellaring time to properly soften up on the backend, but it is going to be an absolutely stunning bottle of Chinon once it is ready to drink!" 

Alcohol: 13.5% 

Made with organic grapes 

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