Sarah Ahmed – The Wine Detective

Domaine des Rochelles Anjou-Villages Brissac – Plus La Croix de la Mission vertical and new releases

Recent tastings of Anjou-Villages and Anjou-Villages Brissac at the Cabernet Franc Ambassador Tasting and Chateau Brissac (see my reports here and here) have impressed with ripe fruit and markedly ripe but present tannins.  And if yet further proof of the pudding was required, a tasting in London with Jean-Hubert Lebreton, the 5th generation of his [...]

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Anjou-Villages Brissac 2008 – kind to the teeth & gentle on the gums…

Best to adopt the brace position when tasting young Anjou Cabernet, Franc or Sauvignon -   predominantly schist soils make for fearsome tannins.  And I realised, as I broached this pre-Salon tasting at the imposing Château Brissac, that I was still recoiling from the memory of the previous year.  Then, not only was I faced with [...]

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