TN: Baudry

Met some friends for a dinner last evening and we both brought a bottle totast blind.

My friend opened a white which turned out to be:

2018 Baudry Chinon Blanc La Croix Boisée - this chenin blanc was clean, crisp and slightly oxidative, with appley notes and good slightly sweet fruit.

2017 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Granges - you can imagine our mutual surmise when we both chose the same producer - wonder what the odds against that would be. Medium red with an initially lean nose that opened up with time to become a wet earth and cherry nose. The wine, a 100% cabernet franc was predictably lean in style and showed some almost black olive hints after being open awhile. I always find cab franc to produce a 'leaner' wine than cab sauv, but I like it and may use it as a theme for a blind tasting one of these days.

I wonder what the odds of two people producing wines from the same producer, chosen out of hundreds of possibilities is?

[Jenise]

Fun time. When I moved here 21 years ago, I was stunned to find the Baudry Les Granges--a wine I'd never tasted but read about on this board--at the local grocer which had its own wine steward who was able to stock his shelves with what he and his customers liked. Not what I was used to in L.A.! I paid $13 for my first Les Granges.