WBW French Cabernet Franc

WBW French Cabernet Franc – Episode #435

April 2, 2008

I am super honored to be hosting this months Wine Blogging Wednesday, I choose Cabernet Franc from France and so here we go! Please make sure you check out the link below and see ALL the wine Bloggers efforts!

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Wines tasted in this episode:

2005 Gasnier Chinon Vieilles VignesChinon
2005 Domaine De La Butte Mi PenteBourgueil
1990 Olga Raffault Chinon Les PicassesChinon

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April 3, 2008

J Crazy
QOTD: Can’t remember my last from France but had one recently from Heller Organic Estate (organically grown wines, NOT organic wines) and a Weisinger’s of Ashland wine that had a heavy dose of the CF.
April 2, 2008

Hamid Z
QOTD: I’m waiting on drinking some for my current stash and getting a steady flow of income so that I can purchase the wines I want. CKC represent.

I totally understood your pick up basketball comment; I play with those guys all the time… one guy we call The Professor because he actually is a professor and plays pick up basketball with students!
April 2, 2008

NathanN
Last week we had the Noblaie Chinon Rouge â€™04. We only have 2 more left downstairs and they probably wonâ€™t see May. We always pair Chinon with supreme pizza it is awesome!
April 2, 2008

Sergio
Gary you turned us on to Cab Franc. We love it. We have had several Bourgueil’s and cant wait to try some from Chinon. You changed our wine world. Dont forget the impact you have.
April 2, 2008

Michael Perricone
Just the other day i was sipping on a bottle of boylan root beer thinking how awesome a show on root beer would be. And then today you mention it. Crazy stuff.

Me being under the legal drinking age i enjoy myself a good root beer.

Ill grab a bottle of boylan and mail it to you. They are readily available but id like to see what you think of it. It doesn’t use corn syrup for the sugar content, but instead they use cane sugar.
April 2, 2008

Marta Strickland's blog - recentlyconsumed.com - digesting technology and vinology
[...] Vaynerchuk (that is with a K, not a CK) of WineLibraryTV is hosting. His energetic entry is posted here. I had the pleasure of meeting Gary Vaynerchuk at Future of Web Apps in Miami this winter, and was [...]
April 2, 2008

Tom (vtjones)
QOTD: I have just started to dip my toe in this style of wine and I have to say I am liking them a lot.
April 2, 2008

Phil G
QOTD – Abby and I were fortunate enough to get to drive through the Loire in 2006 and tried a whole bunch of Chinon… I really like the sour cherry component!
April 2, 2008

laposte
QOTD:
After a trip to the Loire Valley in the early ’90’s I have had many Cab Franc, always a delightful wine.
April 2, 2008

Kdawg
QOTD: if we are talking about a wine with significant Cab Franc in it, a 78 Beausejour-Duffau when the chicago crew tore it up at LFF’s place. For a pure Cab Franc, it was a Samur-Champigny and it was solid
April 2, 2008

ZJK
Big shout out to me Gary…CKC right here! The rustic color of the Chinon Les Picasses was crazy cool! As for the root beer.. I would have to agree with Sharon 100%! If you haven’t tried IBC it is by far my favorite root beer!
April 2, 2008

Chris in Tulsa
I’m so surprised by reading all the comments of other commenters on WLTV that they haven’t tried a Cab Franc. You have stressed in the past months how good they are and I have had several thanks to you GV! Love them and most are great QPR’s!
QOTD: Reserve Des Vignerons Saumur 2005. ONLY A LITTLE OVER 11 BONES TOO!!!
April 2, 2008

jahlove
QOTD – I love Cab Franc from the Loire, Chinon especially. Here is the last one I had, which definitely “brought the thunder.” From the same producer as Wine #1.

2005 Fabrice Gasnier Chinon CuvÃ©e Fabrice
3/12/2008 rated 91 points: A beautiful Chinon. One of the ripest Cab Francs I’ve ever tasted. Nice concentration of fruit but still with the vegetal elements that are so typical of Cab Franc. Very well balanced with a super dry finish. Great short to mid term cellar potential.
April 2, 2008

Marcus
What a great show this is! I say that because Cab Franc is also my favourite red wine. And while reading winebloggers gush about it, seeing Gary taste what I have tasted is edifying, entertaining and because of this site’s stature it gives me hope about getting Loire wines the exposure I think they deserve. I hope it also gets Gary more play (though I doubt he needs it) — his style is unique and might seem harsh compared the next one, but then so is Cab Franc. Once you switch you’re likely hooked. Total success!

I’ll be posting what I drank for this event here shortly. (Excited) Thanks Gary.
April 2, 2008

EvanR
QOTD: I actually had my first cab franc a few weeks ago. It was really good, sadly I can’t remember who it’s from
April 2, 2008

tuscanbob
Another excellent show. So what’s the deal with the rotary dial phone ringer you got going on in your office? Sounds like you’ve got a pay phone in there or something. Also, you caught me with a mouth full of grenache when you deadpanned the “this smells exactly like….poop”. Would you stop doing that please?! Have you ever snorted grenache? It’s painful.
April 2, 2008

brent
QOTD: Pierre & Catherine Breton “Franc a Pied” Bourgueil 2005. Awesome! Nose evolved from stinky socks to ripe cherries…
April 2, 2008

pete c
QOTD- so far, not a cab franc fan.
April 2, 2008

Blake
QOTD: As a CKC, who’s tight on cash and the local wine store is HORRIBLE. I sadly admit that I have yet to try a Cab Franc.

Great episode, i felt the passion!
April 2, 2008

Glenn
Thanks for the great response from Wine Library today. Really enjoyed the show. Am slowly weaning from the Austrailian fruit bombs and developing a taste for old world. Am really starting to enjoy bugandies and am excited to try a Chinon Cab Franc as the only Cab Franc I have had was from Cali and not impressive.
April 2, 2008

BobMac
QotD: I don’t think I’ve ever had one of those wines, but I’m so glad to hear you’re doing a show on root beer. My fave: Henry Weinhard’s.
April 2, 2008

Lenn Thompson
Gary! Thanks for hosting my friend…you know I dig these wines too, so it was particularly cool for me.

As it turns out, I tasted the 2006 vintage of that Gasnier…and loved it.

http://lennthompson.typepad.com/lenndevours/2008/04/wbw-44-french-c.html
April 2, 2008

James Marinello
Big fan of the cab franc. Just did a tasting of WA and CA cab franc last saturday!

qotd – never had a 100% french cab franc…..so I guess the search is on!! Thanks GV!
April 2, 2008

manonthemoon
Great show as always.

QOTD: None, I am afraid of the veggie monster that lives in the old world style cab francs, but I did love the 2005 Owen Roe Mystia Rosa Cab Franc from Walla Walla I had on vacation in Oregon, it was actually the best wine I had all trip. The wine had it all, awesome nose, great fruit and quite the backbone at the tail end.
April 2, 2008

Andrew H.
CKC in the house!

QOTD: None so far. Only cab franc blend. I’m waiting to get home from college, where I have a better selection of wines at the local wine shop.

I would order wine from GV but I live in Michigan and am unable to order