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 6, 2008

Harley Stan
WOW, great epsiode, lots of energy.
QOTD- I don’t remember the last Cab Franc but I am sure I have had one, I guess it means I need to have another one.
April 6, 2008

pawncop
At last I can respond in positive fashion. Wrote you back in February regarding a Couly-Dutheil Chinon 2005 I found after another earlier episode and loved it. Pairs well with hot Italian sausage grilled with peppers, onion and garlic.

Bought another bottle shortly after that and will try it a little later.

Good episode as always.
April 5, 2008

Dan-o
I am a big fan of Cab Franc and therefore this show hit home.
I do not know the producers in Chinon that well, but I always have 3-6 bottles of Chinon or Saumur in my cellar.

I sent you a note a while back about a Cab Franc from CA that was really good – like drinking a glass of vegetables – I think it was called Glaeser.
April 5, 2008

Karl Laczko
Nice show Gary, even with the manure! Good choice for WBW 44.

QOTD – see my WBW 44 post on Reign of Terroir! Here’s the summary of the Reign of Terroir contributions, for some reason it’s not showing my “Greybeard” post linking these in….
http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/01/cabernet-franc-wine-blogging-wednesday-44/
http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/02/how-professionals-taste-wine/
April 5, 2008

Greybeard
Here’s the R.O.T. links for WBW 44, http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/01/cabernet-franc-wine-blogging-wednesday-44/ for Ken & mine’s efforts, and http://reignofterroir.com/2008/04/02/how-professionals-taste-wine/ for Donna’s excellent tasting interview.
April 4, 2008

John Skupny
GV = incredible energy you created with your theme, thanks for being a franc-fan!

In honor of the challenge, and with the boyz at home, I opened the 2005 Bernard Baudry ‘Les Grezeaux’ Chinon. The persistent beam of pure Cabernet Franc fruit just kept me jumping up and down [ala GV] and shouting, this is it, this is it, don’t forget this!… pretty tightly wound and wanting at least a few more years, we had to open a second bottle in hopes of leaving a glass or two to test the next day. No luck – decanter was empty before lights out.
let them drink franc!
April 4, 2008

chenrys
Didn’t get to watch this until Friday…but great show.
We’ve had Cab Franc from California and Georgia.
April 4, 2008

normanzo
Last Cabernet Franc: in Paris! It was a Chinon recommended by a guy at the wine shop at Galleries Lafayette. I got this wine for a dinner with my Parisian friends that evening. However, myself and one of my friends were down with colds, so we weren’t in good shape for tasting –nevertheless, we finished off the Chinon AND a bottle of Cotes de Castillon that they had bottled-up from the barrel when visiting family in Bordeaux this year.

The next day I met you –Gary Vaynerchuk– in Charles de Gaulle, as we were on same flight back to NYC. Nice meeting you, man!
April 4, 2008

Kathleen Lisson
WBW post from my blog!

I picked up a piece of St Maure Chaput from the Honest Weight Co-op in Albany, NY last week.

This is a cheese from Quebec made from raw goat’s milk and coated with vegetable ashes. I found this cheese mild and tangy. My coworkers found the cheese’s smell more intense than I did.

To serve the cheese, I sliced it widthwise and separated out the ashes with a knife. I served a slice on a cracker and drizzled it with a little honey. Served plain, this cheese could pair well with a light, refreshing Chardonnay or Cabernet Franc wine.

Last night I purchased, on the good advice of my blogging friend Alex, a wedge of Taleggio Caravaggio, a washed rind cow’s milk cheese from Italy.

I paired it with the rest of my dinner and a glass of 2005 Fabrice Gasnier Chinon (the first wine Gary tried), a Cabernet Franc based wine from the Loire Valley in France. The cheese is gooey and thick, and brought out the tanginess on the Cab Franc.

I also paired the Cab Franc with rice flavored with white truffle butter, steamed broccoli and sesame oil and sauteed oyster and shitake mushrooms with a dash of pepper.

The vegetal tasting broccoli with the toasty sesame oil topping and the Cabernet Franc were a great match.

The mushroomy taste of the shitake mushrooms also matched well with the Cabernet Franc.

The Cabernet Franc caught the earthy undertone of the Truffles, but the overall delicate flavor of the truffle butter was overpowered by the wine’s stronger flavors.

In this Youtube video, Scott from Fox Run Vineyards in Penn Yann, NY shares food pairing tips for his winery’s Cabernet Franc.

He says that steak, pizza and burgers are perfect matches for this red wine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAT4_2ovnnQ

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April 4, 2008

Joshua E.
I’ve had a Chinon before and loved it, probably a Bourgueil too, but can’t remember when or which one. All in all, Cab Franc = A o.k.
April 4, 2008

M
QOTD: The 2005 Domaine Gasnier Chinon Vieilles Vignes sells for $16.50 nearby. I’m going to get it soon. I’ve had other Cabernet Francs but I can’t remember when, at least 2 years ago.
April 4, 2008

Wednesday
One from Cahors. Nice structure and pickle notes. More than I expected for $10.
April 4, 2008

mjr
gary
u kick it on video, daddyo
good on ya
keep it coming bro
mjr
April 4, 2008

italianwinelover
LOVE LOVE the Cab Franc and now that you pointed a less expensive one out I can budget that!!! Never can get enough…last experience was with my 6 girlfriends splitting the bottle with alot of laughter!!

Have a good one!
April 4, 2008

Scott Breffle
I had a wine from the Saumur region when out to dinner a few weeks ago at Tinderbox in SF. It was great!
April 4, 2008

Denise and Lenny
We posted in time but I do not see us listed …. ahh! We wanted to share our wine with you, too!

Here is the original posting ..

We just posted our WBW 44. It is on our old site â€¦.http://chezdeniseetlaudalino.blogspot.com/ and our new site â€¦. http://www.chezus.com – we are going live with our new site tomorrow, April 2nd.!

Great event, Gary, Thanks!
April 3, 2008

Kevin
2001 Philippe Alliet Chinon Vielles Vignes. Defined it as ‘rotting vegetable’, as it had celery salt, compost heap, diaper, anise, manure, and scrambled eggs on the nose. Floral and dry, with some rosy-watermelon.

I’m on the hunt for some solid Loire. Love the stuff.
April 3, 2008

Brandon B
QOTD: I had a Chinon at Ubuntu restaurant in Napa. It went amazingly well with the veggie courses. I am lucky enough to live near Napa, but all the Vayniacs coming out here have to try Ubuntu for dinner. You have never experienced vegetarian food that is so fresh and makes you forget about meat.
April 3, 2008

ben
Hi Gary,
here is our entry, I’m sure that some have been talked about already, and we are a day late – still- great theme, fun stuff
Thanks,

Ben
http://www.67wine.com/main.asp?request=Blog
April 3, 2008

Thanks to our Vets!
I remember the Flemington Fair!!! Only, I was at the racetrack watching the races!
April 3, 2008

Ben F
Great Show buddy… Got to get into more Cab Franc…
QOTD my last was a blend Beragerac Haut Bernasse… Very good very dry…
April 3, 2008

Sassodoro
QOTD. Working my way through the cases of 2003 Bourdin Saumur-Champigny that I bought for a family reunion at the beach. I thought the family would really go for it, but not so much. Since I bought it, it has really gone green pepper reduction sauce. I like my wine to smell/taste like dirty socks, tar, poop, various veggies, but I can’t seem to get into the green peppers. I have a lot of old Bordeaux that has also turned green pepper. What’s a non-green-pepper-fan to do?
April 3, 2008

Andy & Edie
Never had a pure cab franc and we’ve tried a lot of different wines so there is really no excuse. Other than wanting to avoid tasting something that smells like poop of course! Thanks for another great episode Gary!
April 3, 2008

Louisiana George
QOTD: 2004 Le Noblaie Chinon Chiens Chiens, from you, after you turned me on to the 2003, which my wife and I love – thanks, Gary V
April 3, 2008

Michael DeFino
I just had a Bourgueil 2 weeks ago at our wine group and loved it. Love the flavor profile. One of my favorite wines in the last year. Keep em coming Gary.

Michael