Tasting evening with Bas & Lennart

Tasting evening where everybody brought a white and a red wine. All wines poured blind except own wines

• 1995 Charles Heidsieck Champagne Blanc des Millénaires 96 Points

  France, Champagne

  This is hands down the best champagne I’ve ever had. What a freshness, what a complexity! It has spent 20 (!!) years sur lie in the cellars. Nutty (walnut & almonds), flintiness, wet rock, toast, honey, yeast, nectarine, yellow apple, elderflower, ginger, popcorn, butter, smoke, caramel. Medium+ acidity, medium+ flavor intensity, very, very long finish that keeps evolving, from nutty to bread, to yellow fruit, to toast. This is what champagne is all about! 95-96

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• 2015 Domaine Allimant-Laugner Pinot Gris Vendanges Tardives 89 Points

  France, Alsace

  [Tasted blind] Called Alsace Vendanges Tardives, but thought it was 2005 and didn’t get Pinot Gris. Deep straw yellow, medium- flavor intensity on the nose with linoleum, honey, with some searching mango, figs and beewax. Medium sweet, medium+ acidity, medium- flavor intensity on the palate. Very thick oily mouthfeel. Honey and nuts in the long finish

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• 1998 Nicolas Joly Clos de la Coulée de Serrant 91 Points

  France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Savennières-Coulée de Serrant

  [Tasted blind] Called 20 year Chenin from the Loire. Didn’t have the sherry notes you often find in old Coulee. This got better with more air, although I still had the feeling it is past its peak. Still drinking nicely though. Deep golden, nutty, beewax, linoleum, dried yellow apple, some savoury notes, tomato leaf. Medium+ acidity, medium finish with some gunpowder flavors making it more interesting

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• 2008 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Blanc 94 Points

  France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage

  What a great wine, amazing how they’ve managed to make this beautiful Hermitage Blanc in what is considered to be a very difficult Northern Rhone year. Straw yellow, medium intensity on the nose with orange peel, lemon zest, honey, tangerine, toast, smoke, blossom, elegantly integrated oak. Medium+ acidity, medium+ flavor intensity comparable with the nose but on the palate also white chocolate. Very long finish. 93-94
  
  [Edit] on day 3 there is a great floral note added with roses, white and yellow flower, almost Condrieu like!
  
  Bottle nr 8761
  
  A beautiful wine for my 1500th CT TN!

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• 2014 Descendientes de José Palacios Bierzo Corullon Moncerbal 91 Points

  Spain, Castilla y León, Bierzo

  Quite pale ruby wit medium- aroma’s of barnyard, earthy, tomato leaf, cranberry, cherry, licorice, Medium+ acidity, medium tannins, long fruity finish. Had expected a bit more from this famous Mencia. 2075 bottles produces. 91-91

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• 1998 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse) 88 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

  [Tasted blind] Clearly Bordeaux (called right bank 2005) but also clearly over its peak. Cassis, leather, cherry bonbon, earthy, blackberry, iron. Little left on the palate. Medium acidity, medium tannins. Short finish

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• 2014 San Pedro de Yacochuya Yacochuya 90 Points

  Argentina, Valles Calchaquíes, Salta, Cafayate

  [Tasted blind] Called supertuscan. Blackberry, blackcurrant, ripe plum, bacon, ceder, tobacco, chocolate, clove. Medium acidity, nicely integrated medium+ tannins, high alcohol. Interesting to taste this high altitude wine (grown at 2000m). Very fresh, but unfortunately the 16% alcohol shows to much for me. 89-90
  
  100% new french oak for 18 months

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