WTN: 2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Granges

2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Granges 12.5%
Attractive nose of church incense, green twigs and cloves. Mouth-puckering acidity announces that this is not a sipper and is meant to be drunk with food. When cheese and salad bring the equation into balance, the cherry fruit and the acid shake hands and become friends. From that point on a simple but charming groove establishes itself. A pleasant and classy quaffer, in structure and aromatics much closer to a basic bourgogne than to a meant-to-be-drunk-young bordeaux.

Oswaldo, did you find this Baudry in your local area? I picked up some earlier vintages in London recently but still have access to some `05 here in AB-land!
You did not mention how you thought this wine might age down the stretch!

Oswaldo, did you find this Baudry in your local area? I picked up some earlier vintages in London recently but still have access to some `05 here in AB-land!
You did not mention how you thought this wine might age down the stretch!

I found it at Chambers Street in NY, my local away from local.

I believe Baudry makes Les Granges for near-term consumption, a "cuvee domaine" for medium-term consumption, and others like Croix Boissee for longer term consumption, so I wasn't paying much attention to the longevity prospects here. But I would hazard that this will be terrific in about three years, stay at a nice plateau for a couple of years after that, then start to decline...

[Jenise]

Sounds like a leaner version of the usual. I've been drinking 02's, 04's and 05's, which have enough stuffing to be either/or (food wine, but nice for sipping too). Still, one of my favorite $15 wines.

Oswaldo, did you find this Baudry in your local area? I picked up some earlier vintages in London recently but still have access to some `05 here in AB-land!
You did not mention how you thought this wine might age down the stretch!

Don't underestimate the ageing potential of Les Granges. My last bottle of the 2000 was delicious about a year ago. But as Jenise says, it sounds as if the 2007 has less stuffing than usual which is par for course for the vintage; which, i think, should be drunk young.

If you have access to some 05s, Bob, snap them up.