On May 24, 11:38�pm, Mark Lipton > wrote:
> DaleW wrote:
> > Wednesday I had leftovers, along with the 2005 Catherine et Pierre
> > Breton "Trinch!" Bourgueil. *Ripe blackcurrant and black cherry fruit,
> > some earth, tobacco leaf, and herbs. There's a bit of this aroma I
> > think of as "potted plant", though I'm so *flora-challenged I have
> > trouble isolating it. Pleasant and very distinctive, maybe I need to
> > sniff through Betsy's garden *(I tend to get from mostly Loire reds,
> > though not always CF- sometimes gamay). Some haven't liked this
> > vintage of Trinch!- the $%^# with them.
> > I'll be getting more. B+
>
> Thanks for the notes, Dale. *I last had the Trinch! at Xmas, and thought
> that it was quite lovely, striking a good balance between the herbal and
> fruity side of CF. *However, I haven't had many previous vintages, so
> perhaps I just don't understand how good it was in '02 or something.
>
> Mark Lipton
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I can't find the posts criticizing it. I'm guessing they found it
bigger/riper than previous vintages (I did too,but liked that)