Community Tasting Notes 24

• Mckalm Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 3, 2022 - Gulorange, komplex o smakrik, hög syra, god

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• afot Likes this wine:

  February 17, 2021 - Decanted 4h. Light orange color. On the nose very ripe fruit with clearly substantial bortrytis notes and immense extract... high complexity and very different from wines higher upstream; the shist and quarzite soils result in rounder acidity than e.g. Vouvray. Delicious stuff!

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• GHarmsen Likes this wine: 97 points

  November 30, 2020 - Exactly what I was hoping for, standing out amongst a strong line-up of Chenin Blancs in a way only wines from Nicholas Joly can. Golden-hued, with rich, ripe, palate-coating flavors of orchard fruit, dried exotic citrus fruits, Indian spices, and candied ginger. Complex and deeply concentrated, it has at least another decade or two ahead of it, thanks to a backbone of dark minerality with the acidity to match.

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• afot Likes this wine: 90 points

  August 6, 2020 - Very interesting wine. Some sherry and cider notes, also smokey aromas reminding of cognac, in the end a bit too alcoholic, on the palate good balance. Don't think of it as a conventional wine, but who would actually? The complexity is just crazy, with its fruity (apple and quince) and smokey, flinty, yeasty aromas. For me it lacks a bit of finesse, the alcohol is just too prominent, but might be the bottle (cork almost 3/4 soaked) ... what an experience

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• WST Likes this wine:

  March 17, 2020 - I was worried about this, especially when I saw the tawny golden color. However, it was sound, with no oxidative notes whatsoever. Orange, honey, peach, maybe a little lanolin to give the grape away. Nice cut. This was the perfect match for corned beef, which I thought was going to be impossible to pair with anything but Guinness.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type White
• Producer Nicolas Joly
• Varietal Chenin Blanc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Clos de la Bergerie
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Anjou-Saumur
• Appellation Savennières Roche aux Moines

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• In Cellars 101 (51%)
• Consumed 98 (49%)

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