Francly puzzling Amirault

Yannick Amirault Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil "La Mine" 2009
13% abv. A substantial wine with plenty of flesh and even outright sweetness to its lovely tobacco aromas. The taste is a pendulum that swings between a lovely, fresh, invigorating, pleasantly tannic wine and a sweet, fruit-driven one flirting dangerously with over-ripeness. Hopefully the pendulum will eventually get stuck in the former as the latter is Francly not what I like. Whatever, it needs plenty of time even though this has the reputation (with La Coudraye) of being among the lighter of Amirault's wines. I will postpone firm decisions on this wine for a couple years; but good enough that I'm willing to put a couple in the cellar to see how they turn out.