2007 Baudry Croix Boissée 13.0%

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Oswaldo Costa

Oswaldo Costa
Reception party is the esteemed cabernet franc dance team of leather & forest floor, burnished with a little bit too much vanillin for my palate today. Tart acidity, light to medium tannins, and a vegetable streak ingrained with a smoked meat undertone which, for some reason, makes the words "matière grasse" flash insistently across the teleprompter. Also known to post-structuralist wine critics as Baudry lard. I know it makes me a velly bad person (to Salil, at least), but I didn't care much for this last night, though I loved it at the winery last Fall. Too much wood* (that incubus). Disjointed. Incapable of coalescing into gestalthood.

* research shows that Croix Boissée usually spends 12 to 14 months in 1 to 3 year old wood; the 2007, if a note from The Wine Doctor is believed, spent 18 months. Too mucking fuch, honeycakes.
 
Baudry lard is a piece de resistance in your show, I guess titled WeinArt. The whole note though...

It seems that the 2009 is just becoming available at the usual source. I'm curious how it shows. Both the Domaine and Grezeaux are very nice.
 
Baudry lard is a piece de resistance in your show, I guess titled WeinArt. The whole note though...

It seems that the 2009 is just becoming available at the usual source. I'm curious how it shows. Both the Domaine and Grezeaux are very nice.
 
Christian, aren't you in D.C.? Phil at Bassins has had the 09 Grezeaux in for several months now.

We opened an 07 Croix Boissee about six weeks ago and weren't swept away, especially considering the build-up Nathan gives this wine. I didn't make a note, but by recall, the flavors, while not unwholesome, seemed muddied, lacking elegance or precision. Maybe this impression is my take on the 'lard' and excessive wood you discern. The price was right, though, so I put away a couple of bottles for research purposes.

The 08 is supposed to be a step up, I hear.
 
A couple of hypotheses: 1) you had a bad bottle; or 2) the fruit is closing down, exposing the wood?

I won't be opening mine any time soon.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
The price was right, though, so I put away a couple of bottles for research purposes.
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Ditto, I picked up a few because they were in their late $20s at Zachys. Now I'm wondering if for a reason.
 
It was wonderful back on release so I'm betting on shutting down. Seems like about the right time. Give it 10 years and I'm sure it will be lovely again.
 
I'm with Jay/Joe's hypothesis of the wine shutting down. This was tremendous on release, wonderfully fragrant and perfectly balanced, so I'll just take this as a warning not to go near my (all too few) remaining bottles for some years.

But at least the 09's arrived.
 
originally posted by Cristian Dezso:
Yes in DC and yes I had the 09 Grezeaux, I was referring to the 09 Croix Boisee - which I just noticed at CSW.
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Oh, sorry.

I seem to recall Nathan defending this wine against similar descriptions (to Oswaldo's) on the basis that it takes time to integrate, is a vin de garde.
 
The only Baudry wine in recent memory I've had disagreements with was 2007 Croix Boissee. Quite woody on release, the same a year later. Mathieu thinks it will integrate, and there have been some encouraging reports here over the past year, no ?
I would give it time, it may turn into a Dujac.
The other 2007 are superb; Clos Guillot was enchanting a couple of months ago.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Sorry to be unclear, I'll try again: what I see 09 Croix Boisee priced at is about 60% more than what I paid for the 07 Croix Boissee.
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$51??
 
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