Putnam Weekley

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• NV Valdespino Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Fino "Inocente" Macharnudo

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  5/8/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  NOSE: almond, seafoam, wildflowers, baking chocolate. MOUTH: remote, sun, coast, sepiated, upholstered, stictly dry, seasoned timber arches, alkaline mineral, seeping pools of macerated cress.

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• 2022 Clos du Tue-Boeuf Cheverny La Gravotte

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  5/8/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 96 Points

  12.89% abv. 70% Fié Gris (aka Sauvignon Gris.)
  EYE: very hell, pastel gold and green-silver.
  NOSE: plump, ready to rupture with sweet musk-lemon; tangerine; tall grass and wildflower; bracing chalk-peppermint; brined rose.
  MOUTH: pretty much a perfect drink. It glances across several beloved genres at their best. The pacing is like hydrated cucumber, green tea, lime tonic. A loft of exotic orchard fruits (apricot, sumac, almond, preserved lemon) are bound with detailed stitching of tidal pond and igneous rock. This is as abundant as it is spontaneous, with natural acidity meeting fluent ripeness. It is ideologically expansive to the limit of zero. How to pair it with food? Can it be falsified by a dimly lit loin chop?—after a liquor-based aperitif? And if not, certainly it couldn't survive service of preciously molded cheese courses. Presumably. On that basis I am deducting four points.

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• 2022 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese

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  5/5/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  cinco hace sixto (rodriguez): 7.5% abv. AP 06. I sense a great degree of coherence, accomplished work, and mediation in this latest series of MFR, culminating in a Spätlese. Substantially, this drink amounts to buoyant floral perfume, fallen, adhesive, waist-deep, and attached to bulks of roasted/superficially mature, lightly salted berries—green/amber/blush* colored, berries. A core clad in pistachio dough suggests material for benign cellar processes. Very pastel-translucent. Acidity stitches the roots/soil stratum to piled starch/pear/muscat. Wait 2-5 years to open another.
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  24 hours later, Herr Brewer reads pear. Me too. I loudly test this against the piña/fraise hypothesis, and discover all of it is confirmed, both sides of the argument. If I can't cellar this, I can hope someone does.
  
  *Ethiopia

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