Nose: pear, pineapple chunks, pencil eraser Mouth: acid, pineapple, citrus, shortish finish. 13% £6.99. Okay but forgettable, no oak but some time on lees - the short finish means that this would probably go with any food you wanted it to.
Nose: Floral, honey, smoke perhaps, lime and tropical fruit with some minerality Mouth: mineral, toast, smooth citric fruit - lemon and lime, nice acidity with a long finish that left buttery overtones in the mouth. £17.99 13%. Enough acidity here for two or three years age.
Nose: Strawberry, marzipan, toasted nuts and pineapple, some caramel, rubber Mouth: dry, nutty, light citrus and a little gooseberry. Still a little acidity and oily. Almost, for me, a touch of rancio. £25 12.5%. Some people at the tasting liked it but it wasn't for me.
France, Languedoc Roussillon, Languedoc, Corbières
Nose: Rose, lychee, perfumed with spice - cinnamon in particular and mineral. The nose is almost Gewurztraminer lite! Mouth: honey, spice, nicely integrated acidity. rich and oily butteriness and a reasonable finish. £10 12.5%. 50% Marsanne, 50% Roussanne - Glorious homage to southern rhone. A lovely relatively cheap wine.
Nose: Red cherry, raspberry, bonfire, earth - all of which were muted. Quite shy on the nose. Mouth: Acidic, hardly any tannin, rich fruitiness £9 13%. Nice but forgettable. If I ordered this at a restaurant I wouldn't be disappointed (except by the inevitable 200% mark up)
Nose: earth, cherry pop ice lolly, rich and vibrant Mouth: fruit, tannin, rich, decadent. Little sour astringency on the medium finish £20 13%. Hmm,in two minds on this one. Not sure. I think the lack of finish probably pushes this one away for me.
Nose: dark, bitter black cherry, rubber tyres burning in a field, Mouth: licorice and tannin, black fruit gums, coffee £9 13.5% Kind of weirdly lovely. Massive amounts of tannin and dry as the Sahara, but all the same terribly good fun.
2007 Cave de Lugny Mâcon-Villages 82 Points
France, Burgundy, Mâconnais, Mâcon-Villages
Nose: pear, pineapple chunks, pencil eraser
Mouth: acid, pineapple, citrus, shortish finish.
13% £6.99. Okay but forgettable, no oak but some time on lees - the short finish means that this would probably go with any food you wanted it to.
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2006 Alain Geoffroy Chablis 1er Cru Beauroy 88 Points
France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru
Nose: Floral, honey, smoke perhaps, lime and tropical fruit with some minerality
Mouth: mineral, toast, smooth citric fruit - lemon and lime, nice acidity with a long finish that left buttery overtones in the mouth.
£17.99 13%. Enough acidity here for two or three years age.
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2001 Domaine Francois et Antoine Jobard Bourgogne Blanc 87 Points
France, Burgundy, Bourgogne Blanc
Nose: Strawberry, marzipan, toasted nuts and pineapple, some caramel, rubber
Mouth: dry, nutty, light citrus and a little gooseberry. Still a little acidity and oily. Almost, for me, a touch of rancio.
£25 12.5%. Some people at the tasting liked it but it wasn't for me.
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2008 Château Ollieux Romanis Corbières Blanc 90 Points
France, Languedoc Roussillon, Languedoc, Corbières
Nose: Rose, lychee, perfumed with spice - cinnamon in particular and mineral. The nose is almost Gewurztraminer lite!
Mouth: honey, spice, nicely integrated acidity. rich and oily butteriness and a reasonable finish.
£10 12.5%. 50% Marsanne, 50% Roussanne - Glorious homage to southern rhone. A lovely relatively cheap wine.
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2007 Jean-Michel Dupré Régnié Haute Ronze 80 Points
France, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Régnié
Nose: Leather, cherry
Mouth: tiny bit of tannin, bit dull
£11 12.5%. Yawn...not wrong, just not right.
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2007 Vignerons de Buxy Bourgogne La Buxynoise 84 Points
France, Burgundy, Bourgogne
Nose: Red cherry, raspberry, bonfire, earth - all of which were muted. Quite shy on the nose.
Mouth: Acidic, hardly any tannin, rich fruitiness
£9 13%. Nice but forgettable. If I ordered this at a restaurant I wouldn't be disappointed (except by the inevitable 200% mark up)
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2005 Domaine Gaston et Pierre Ravaut Ladoix 86 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Ladoix
Nose: earth, cherry pop ice lolly, rich and vibrant
Mouth: fruit, tannin, rich, decadent. Little sour astringency on the medium finish
£20 13%. Hmm,in two minds on this one. Not sure. I think the lack of finish probably pushes this one away for me.
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2005 Domaine Berthoumieu Madiran 88 Points
France, Southwest France, Madiran
Nose: dark, bitter black cherry, rubber tyres burning in a field,
Mouth: licorice and tannin, black fruit gums, coffee
£9 13.5% Kind of weirdly lovely. Massive amounts of tannin and dry as the Sahara, but all the same terribly good fun.
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