Community Tasting Notes 21

• SpenceP wrote: 95 points

  September 2, 2023 - Gently lovely--flowers, the sort of pastry crust one would use for a quiche, salty minerals, sweet turnips, cooked leafy greens, followed by a soft but endless endless endless aftertaste. Totally dry. Perhaps the faintest hints of pineapple and almonds. Beautifully balanced, no one element calls attention to itself. Serve this with the lightest and most delicate flavors. There's no hurry, but it's very special right now. [Tasted over an hour and a half from the Jancis Robinson glass. After about an hour, the wine becomes significantly more powerful--perhaps a preview of what it will be like in another year? This more powerful stage clearly deserved a 96 point rating--but the more delicate version to which I gave 95 points is so magical. Scores are tricky and I think they can be misleading. I've left the score in the header at 95 points and leave you to make your personal version of sense of all this. Previously tasted on 8/25/2022, 1/20/2022, and 5/6/2020.]

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• SpenceP wrote: 97 points

  August 25, 2022 - Tasted again--see my notes of January 20 2022 and May 6 2020. Intensely mineral, with oranges, not quite ripe melon, turnips, cooked leafy greens, sweet scallops, freshly baked bread. Almost endless and constantly changing aftertaste. Some wax in the texture. Utterly dry. There's something in there that vaguely resembles faint oxidation, but my guess is that it's really something else--was there perhaps prolonged lees contact? This is an amazing wine, if you're able to be open to it for the strange thing it is. No hurry at all, but also no reason to wait. [I've now confirmed that there was indeed prolonged contact with the lees.]

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• SpenceP wrote: 96 points

  January 20, 2022 - Tasted again after a year and a half (see my note of 5/6/2020), the wine is no longer as strikingly austere as it was earlier in its life. Extremely dry and both intensely and complexly mineral, with notes of unripe melon, citrus, fresh-baked bread, green apple peel, squash, and a hint of maybe cooked turnips (or something vaguely like that). The aftertaste goes on and on and on and on with a touch of shrimp shells toward the end. This is a fascinating wine, and if, like most of us, you grew up on Chardonnay and maybe Riesling, you'll need to drastically revise your expectations of what a white wine is supposed to be--but if you can do that, this is very much worth it. My guess is that this is finally beginning to hit its peak, but there's no hurry--it has many years ahead of it.

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• rcg62 Does not like this wine:

  August 6, 2021 - Good light color. Started nicely with light apple and saline notes, but quickly began to develop a funky odor and finish. Burned rubber came to mind. Drinkable but not for me.

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• BrunelloBob wrote: 90 points

  July 12, 2020 - That was interesting... Baked apple, apple, citrus, mineral,salt, black pepper, a significant oxidative element. Drink now.

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• Vintage 2012
• Type White
• Producer Domaine de l'Ecu
• Varietal Melon de Bourgogne
• Designation Granite
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Pays Nantais
• Appellation Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine

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