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• MuddyBoots wrote:

  October 5, 2021 - I believe this wine - which was bought on release - is the wine Nicolas Joly intended it to be. I accept is is not flawed. But by anybody’s reckoning this is not a conventional wine. It is a dry wine made with grapes some (meaningful) portion of which are left to form early stage botrytis. Everything about this wine flows from this. Nicolas Joly believes this level of botrytis is part of the terroir. No note of mine on how any particular vintage is showing or progressing will be helpful. Before making assessments of one vintage over another you have to ask yourself if you like this style. It is pretty binary. Surely not much middle ground here. A wine so different in its definition of what constitutes quality than how common wisdom customarily would define it. I am willing to keep trying Coulee de S in the hope I will one day see the light, but nothing about this wine in vintage 2002 changed my mind. A choice....Bought on release.

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• JohnMcIlwain commented:

  10/13/21, 3:29 PM - Every time I open one of his bottles, rather than say, those made by his mother all I can think is, "Well, that's a choice..."

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