February 22, 2024 - Drank at Uncle Ned's OBTN, supplied by Mandy. Yellowish-gold in color. Nose of honey, peaches and quince. Fairly unctuous in weight but not fat or clunky, with exuberant amount of honey, apricot, quince & fig. Solid acidic core, great complexity & richness, and not too sweet. In fact, I'd call this off-dry. Loved this bottle!
February 7, 2024 - Wow! First of 12 wines served blind by our host Ken K tonight.....
Dark gold in the glass, oxidized nose.
Palate of sweet oak with a decidedly saline back palate. The perfect balance between salty and sweet. This was one of my wines of the night. I have never been the beneficiary of an old sweet Chenin like this before! It completely confused me.....
January 2, 2024 - Honey, quince (someone remarked on its resemblance to the membrillo), sweet apple. Nice. balanced, but not super complex. B/B+
October 10, 2023 - Opened and poured. Deep yellow. Clean, unbotrytized orchard fruit. Medium body, not that glycerine for Chenin Blanc, and almost off dry rather than exceedingly sweet. Moelleux style wine, more rich than dessert level sweet. Reserved but excellent. I look forward to following this over the next 2 nights.
More liquoreux and high toned after being recorked overnight. Now more of a true dessert wine.
February 12, 2023 - Wow, bottle 2 was absurdly better than bottle 1 two months ago. The acid was perfect on this one balancing the richness, raisin, dried apricot, and big caramel. Beautiful; I get it now.
December 24, 2022 - NR because I’m just not a lover of sweet wines, even having tried plenty others of this tier. If rating, I’d give an 88-90. I would have liked more acid. Considerably better the next day and two days later, when it got a really nice caramel note. But I’d still take a good old Sauternes over this - it’s missing the pop (less acidity and maybe lack of botrytis?) I like there, and, to my palate, is thinner.
October 16, 2022 - At Troquet with Mark and Raj. This was the wine of the night. Perfect balance of sweetness and acidity, a magnificent golden color, lanolin on the nose, and clean chenin blanc notes (not so much the wet wool).
October 15, 2022 - "Slow Decanting" this classic
DAY 1
👃Sweet apricot, tangerine, white flowers, varnish, & manuka honey. Beautiful and very expressive
👅Hits the tongue with honeyed sweetness and bright rich fruit leading the way. Acidity increases next followed by beautiful quince/apricot/tangerines. Finishes long with no unsavory bits. Everything in balance
The remaining wine was Slow Decanted
DAY 12
👃Just wow😮 Fruit, florals, varnish, and honey
👅Sweet rich apricot, smoky orange, honey, mango, varnish, grapefruit, quince, fig, sultanas.... Starts and ends with fruit. Savory in the mid palate. Lovely mouthfeel. Rich but not heavy
-This QdC was stellar and virtually identical on Days 1 and
12. This would likely stay great for much longer with Slow
Decanting but I just couldn't hold off
-This 2002 is in great form and I am sure another decade is
going to be no problem with this level of acidity and balance
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October 4, 2022 - Corked
October 2, 2022 - Served chilled. Deep yellow-gold in colour. Nose of ripe mangoes, quince, brown turbindo sugar, and a touch of honey. Sweet and sour mangoes, ripe pineapples and apricots with bits of apple cider are noticed on palate; multi layered and sharp. Medium+ bodied with a long finish. Oh yeah, this is some good <bleep>.