February 22, 2020 - Pale straw in color, some orchard fruit, lemon and oranges, not an overwhelming sea breeze thing, ripe year with correct acidity, drinking well, ready for business.
July 8, 2018 - Chez SC: lemon, rich, well balanced, in line with the Forest 05 of Dauvissat tasted half an hour earlier. The Dauvissat wines of 2005 are very good, not too rich and fresher compared to the 2006.
May 19, 2017 - Chicago Wine Flock...Winefool Serving Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Mostly Burgundy (Hughes House - Chicago IL): Tasted double blind.Apple, pear with some lemon peel. Good concentration and balance, even if moderate weight. I correctly identified this as the younger Burgundy, but did not think the pair was Chablis, with more ripe "2005" character front-and-center.
May 19, 2017 - Winefool Intro/Retro (Chez Winefool): Served blind. Pale gold in color. Medium nose is understated in the line-up -- melons, lighter orchard fruit and lemon zest. After the reveal, I was clearly getting seashells on the nose too, but who knows if that's just a psychological effect. The palate is lean and a tad astringent with lots of acid relative to the lighter fruit profile. Picked this out as one of the younger wines, but missed Chablis -- though it was screaming Chablis, in hindsight. I under-ranked this. My #5, Groups #3.
September 18, 2016 - Last bottle. Full, deep yellow. Quite a bit different than a bottle tasted about 6 months ago. Much richer and rounder with orange tinged fruit and a mouth feel that suggests clay as opposed to limestone. With time and air, it gains more iodine, saline, structure, and focus as Dauvissat wines often do, but it never reaches that optimal point of excitement and tension between the components. Fully mature at this point.
June 7, 2016 - Bummer, 4 bad bottles in this batch, horribly oxidized...
February 16, 2016 - Full yellow. Wow, all lime on the nose and palate to start. Medium to full bodied with vanillin and some toast. Excellent underlying structure of acidity and saline notes. As it opened and warmed, it became lacier and more precise. After the initial disjointed phase, wonderful wine. No reason to hold at this point.
February 6, 2016 - Uggg, bummer, over the hill no doubt. The som tried to be apologetic (it was my bottle, he was being nice), but for the glimpses of unctuous truffle-coated ripe white fruit there was too much sherry-like quality, oxidation, dark gold color, funk... One bottle left, gonna pop it asap and pray! Not even a gray market bottle, weird for Dauvissat.
September 21, 2015 - Single Blind Chablis (Chez John Morris): Fleshy peach fruit, some honey and pie crust, quite dense and mineral, a little flat, could use more acidity? Gets a little alcoholic and spiky as it warms up. Good but shows the problematic side of the ripe 05 vintage character, it would be better if it were a touch less ripe and alcoholic.
July 3, 2015 - À acheter les yeux fermés !