Community Tasting Notes 30

• paintinginacave wrote: 94 points

  April 11, 2024 - Opened three hours in advance. Drank a small glass. Deep straw to the eye. An intriguing aromatic evolution in the glass from damp river rocks that with time dried out and transformed into the dust from crushed stones. Wild gooseberry, a feint hint of lemon verbena, and dried hay round out the experience. Exceptional power and length coupled with outstanding purity as is often the case with Cotat. At a decade of age you’re only just beginning to scratch the surface but it was an absolute joy doing so.

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• AndrewHH wrote: 93 points

  December 7, 2022 - 8 years and still remarkably fresh and youthful. Bright pale straw yellow. The nose is still primary with pear, apple, and blackcurrant. The palate is remarkably clean and pure. The front of palate fruit follows the nose heightened by crisp fruit acidity. Further fruit develops on the mid palate led by key limes, grapefruit and passion fruit. Freshly cut grass, stone minerals and lime on the finish.
  
  All of this was better on day 2 with a hint of tertiary sweet fruit.

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• Shloly Likes this wine: 91 points

  October 12, 2022 - The wine is clear, with pale lemon color, and thick legs.
  
  On the nose, the wine is clean, with medium plus primary aroma intensity of white spices, peppermint, clove, hints of gunflint along with herbal, almost animally notes.
  
  On the palate the wine is dry, with medium plus acidity, medium body, medium alcohol, medium plus primary flavor intensity of white fruits, grapefruit, gooseberries, citrus, lemon, lemon zest, white spices, white peeper.
  
  Finish is medium plus, with hints of fresh minerality.
  
  The wine is of a very good quality, as it is showing balance between concentrated fruit, fresh green notes, minerality and acidity.
  Length is pronounce and pleasant, with expressive acidity across mid-palate, showing multi layers of characteristics both on nose and palate which makes it complex and gastronomic.

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• kostaslonis Likes this wine:

  October 12, 2022 - Tasting Ground official tasting, Chavignol Somewhere in Time (Oinoscent): Again different that the other 2 mont damnes, sitting halfway between the 2 styles. It has the steely, flinty notes of Boulay with the ripeness of Pascat Cotat. With time in the glass, the ripe side seems to emerge more. Marmalade and spicy hints too.
  Palate showing far more nerve, energy, high acidity, medium body, as mineral as a Santorini (if not more), tight texture, unforgiving, long finish.
  Very unique, very interesting

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• aagrawal wrote: 94 points

  September 27, 2022 - Dinner with the wine group (Zazie's, San Francisco): Lemon-yellow; intense aromatics, ginger, spice, citrus, minerality, wonderful complexity; medium bodied, vibrant acidity, nice citrus oil; medium-long finish. Wonderful aromatics, reminds me of a dry Austrian riesling like Alzinger. 93-94

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• 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

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• Pending Delivery 8 (1%)
• In Cellars 393 (58%)
• Consumed 281 (41%)

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