92+ John Gilman - View from the Cellar

"The 2010 Les Granges from Bernard Baudry is a beautiful, young bottle of Chinon that will be absolutely stunning with a year or two of bottle age. The deep, complex, and youthful nose offers up scents of cassis, black cherries, gravelly soil tones, a touch of tree bark, cigar smoke, and dark chocolate. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, and really sappy at the core, with superb transparency, fine mid-palate depth, and excellent focus and grip on the moderately tannic, tangy, and very soil-driven finish. The Les Granges bottling from Monsieur Baudry is consistently excellent, but I have to give the slight nod to this utterly classic 2010 to the riper 2009. This is going to be a stellar bottle of Chinon with a bit of time in the cellar! 2014-2025+."