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• Floral Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 4, 2024 - Really Excellent.
  
  Deeply complex nose, most salient for me were almond flowers, marzipan, and light blue cheese.
  
  Mouth follows with the most beautifully integrated jalapeno note.
  Well balanced.
  
  My first time trying aged Cotat and just makes me remember how endlessly deep the wine world is.

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• Wamrod Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 28, 2023 - I am absolutely blown away by this wine. It has aged superbly so far, my only other tasting having been in 2012. Golden straw in color, the nose is spicy with a touch of petrol, not too dissimilar to a reisling, but with an enticing fruit overtone. The first taste is rich and balanced, there is obvious sweetness by design and due to vintage, but it is wonderfully braced by the acid and fruit. Peaches, apricots and guineps/lychee in the aftertaste, which lingers for a good while. I have four bottles left and am looking forward to continued evolution.

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• Hanibal wrote: 89 points

  July 3, 2022 - Was a bit too sweet for me for a sauvignon blanc ... well made however

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• Mario17 wrote: 89 points

  May 27, 2022 - Dégustation à l’aveugle diner Bagatelle 27 Mai.
  Nez riche avec une forte impression sucrée que l’on retrouve en bouche aussi, gras, rond avec un peu d’acidité, finale avec de l’alcool et comme un sucre résiduel, 89. Clairement identifié comme Cotat.
  
  Blind tasting lunch. Nose with strong sugar and sweetness impression that we find on the round and fairly fat palate, a little bit of acidity to balnce it but a finish with some alcool and residual sugar, clearly identified as F. Cotat.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote:

  May 12, 2020 - Second bottle from a case purchased in 2011. A beautiful baby in 2011, far too young still in 2014, and I thought that after 11 years it was high time to gauge the condition of this immense Sancerre (15% ABV). Decanted for one hour. To start with the conclusion: it is a mysterious wine. The colour is still a very light white gold and shows no evolution; the nose is beautifully rich, typical for Cotat from a warm vintage, but above all deep and brooding; the palate is ill at ease with itself, a bit unwieldy at present; the finish displays some unresolved residual sugar. I will let this slumber for another five years at least, as I suspect that this is on a similar trajectory as a top JJ Prüm Auslese, reaching its peak only after 25 years or more. I am not scoring it now; if it fulfills the promise of its youth it will be a 95-96 point wine in maturity around 2035-2050, but the jury is still out whether it ever will or that it will just collapse under its own weight. Revisit with caution in 2025. After eight hours in the decanter, complex floral, vegetal and fruity aromas emerge on the nose, and the minerality and acidity become visible on the palate, but there is considerable back-end heat. After 24 hours in the decanter, the flavours become more honeyed, the fleshy concentration on the palate is palpable and the finish displays notes of honeysuckle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type White
• Producer Domaine François Cotat
• Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard La Grande Côte
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Upper Loire
• Appellation Sancerre

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• Pending Delivery 2 (1%)
• In Cellars 83 (55%)
• Consumed 65 (43%)

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