We deliberately kept this wine for * years to see how well it would mature and we were not disappointed.
The Saumur-Champigny appellation is in the Loire valley. The wine is produced form Cabernet Franc black grapes. Cabernet Franc is eminently suitable to the terroir and methods of production of the appellation.
We drank this wine with pork. The wine was still vigorous but of course the tannin had softened. There was a lovely red berry flavour and nose and the taste remained on the palate for a long time after swallowing. The wine was medium bodied so you could drink it without food, but I always recommend drinking good wine with food rather than sloshing it back. I don't think that this wine would improve in the the bottle for much longer and most people from France would already have drunk this vintage.
We were given this wine so I don't know how much it would have cost but I doubt that the price would have been more than about £10 a bottle so it makes this wine excellent value for money.
I don't buy much Loire valley wine to drink at home. This wine reminds me of what I am missing and the Loire valley is now back on the menu.
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