Community Tasting Notes 57

• GuanYu Likes this wine: 95 points

  May 2, 2024 - Shiny, medium pale greenish gold. Faint gooseberry, lemon, pear, citrus peel, white peach, white flowers, crème brûlée, butterscotch, glue, ginseng and minerality. Medium-full bodied, high acidity, medium-high structure, medium alcohol and very long mineral finish with residual sugar. Complex, structured and layered. A fantastic effort, and resembled a dry Sauternes.
  
  I drank the 2015 Les Monts Damnés and 2020 Les Culs de Beaujeu a few days apart. Both 2015 and 2020 were fresh, off-dry and minerally. When I tasted this 2010, I realized that my earlier 2015 and 2020 were too youthful and had not developed into the profiles of this 2010. Further more, 2015 and 2020 were on the sweeter side due to the residual sugar. On the other hand, this 2010 had developed into almost a different wine, one that tasted much more integrated and drier on the palate (thanks to the acidity), even though the residual sugar was still there.
  
  From now on, I would keep my remaining Cotat for at least 12-15 years before I would open them for pleasure.
  
  Also, I recommend to breathe the wine for 3 hours before drinking.
  
  ADDENDUM: I saved a small amount in the fridge for tasting 36 hours later. Wine was still fresh and balanced. It was leaner and drier with residual sugar almost completely vanished.

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• kostaslonis wrote: flawed

  March 15, 2024 - Sample tasting at work (Oinoscent): corked !!

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• Shay.Aldriedge wrote: flawed

  December 21, 2023 - I was so excited to open this as I’ve had some really tasty and unique young Cotat bottles…but this was undeniably corked.
  
  I gave this all the opportunity to be great, but the longer it was open, the more sharp (and chemical?) it got. Typical notes of green everything initially but they were all in the background to an odd chemical funk. Eventually, TCA showed up. Too bad, as the texture and mid-palate were really nice. Tropical and herbaceous but with enough cut to keep everything in balance…but the finish affirmed the presence of TCA.
  
  Oh this wine game we play…

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• drwine2001 wrote:

  August 30, 2023 - Medium yellow. Fresh tropical fruit with the barest amount of varietal pungency. Fantastic rich texture and feel. Underripe pineapple attack without the sweetness of some vintages, then equally compelling white grapefruit, acidity, and stone. A great wine that shows little in the way of development, much less decline.

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• swfc wrote: 93 points

  May 4, 2023 - Tasted alongside Dagueneau Months D and Cotat Culs 2010, this was stylistically somewhere in between the two, having the greater texture of Cotat, but with the minerality of Monts Damnes shared with Dagueneau. Perhaps not the perfect bottle, this had a slight haziness to the finish. Very good still

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type White
• Producer Domaine François Cotat
• Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Les Monts Damnés
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Upper Loire
• Appellation Sancerre
• UPC Code 357694004310

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• Pending Delivery 7 (1%)
• In Cellars 337 (49%)
• Consumed 345 (50%)

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