Clos Rougeard - Saumur-Champigny Les Poyeux 2008 (750ml)
Price: $525.00
| Producer | Clos Rougeard |
| Country | France |
| Region | Loire |
| Varietal | Cabernet Franc |
| Vintage | 2008 |
| Sku | 1470385 |
| Size | 750ml |
Clos Rougeard Description
Les Poyeux comes from a nearly 2-hectare plot of the same name, on a gentle slope with a clay and limestone soil mixed with windblown sands. A universally popular and feminine wine, with notes of vanilla and dry spices. - Clos Rougeard
John Gilman: 94 Points
Given how refined the 2008 le Clos is showing today, I was expecting the two cru bottlings from Clos Rougeard to also be quite elegant in profile at the present time, but the Poyeux and Bourg are both hunkered down for hibernation and a bit grumpy in personality at the present time. The 2008 Poyeux offers up a youthful and still quite reserved bouquet of cassis, cigar ash, dark soil tones, a touch of tariness and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a rock solid core, good soil signature, firm, ripe tannins and lovely balance on the very, very long, but still very youthful finish. This will be a more black fruity vintage of Poyeux than the 2010, but it should prove to be outstanding when it has blossomed. But, it will need some bottle age to really start to drink again with generosity. (Drink between 2025-2075)
