"The Chinon “les Grézeaux” from Domaine Baudry is their oldest vine cuvée, as these vines are now more than fifty years of age. The vineyards also lie close to the Vienne River in the Baudry’s home village of Cravant-les-Côteaux, with the gravelly topsoils layered over a base of clay and limestone. The wine is fermented and raised in cement vats. The 2021 version comes in at twelve percent octane in this cooler summer and offers up a deep and black fruity bouquet of cassis, dark berries, cigar ash, gravelly soil tones, coffee bean and plenty of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and full, with superb depth at the core, lovely soil signature and grip, ripe, buried tannins, impeccable balance and a long, complex and very promising finish. This is going to be a simply outstanding wine, once it has blossomed from behind its chassis of tannin. 2031-2075+. "