To my palate, the “Vindoux l’Intégrale”, with its old vines having been planted all the way back in 1929, is Marc Plouzeau’s finest Chinon bottling. I last tasted this brilliant bottling of Chinon in the 2018 vintage and I was happy to see that the 2020 version was a touch less ripe than the ’18, coming in this year at 13.5 percent octane. The wine delivers a superb aromatic constellation of dark berries, cassis, cigar smoke, a touch of tree bark, dark soil tones, espresso, just a touch of menthol and a very discreet framing of oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and impeccably balanced, with a fine core of black fruit, superb soil inflection and grip, fine-grained, buried tannins and a very long, complex and supremely elegant, old vine finish. The 2020 vintage of Vindoux l’Intégrale is nicely structured out of the blocks and will need plenty of time in the cellar to blossom properly, but, once it is ready, it will stand as one of the great wines made in Chinon in the last couple of decades! Chapeau!
95+ points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar (Oct 2024)
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