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• The Guzz wrote: 91 points

  September 8, 2023 - For my experience a particularly good Gonon Chasselas. Golden unctuous fruit delivered with strong intensity. Sometimes these can lack balance but this does not, showing a stone/mineral spice and tightening acid backbone. Finer than expected and delivered with that transcendent Gonon character.

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• Raage Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 19, 2021 - (CDV)
  VV de 100 ans sur St Jo, unique!
  Modèle de finesse, de précision, moins exubérant qu'un St Jo blanc, mais pourtant ce Chasselas possède qq gènes autochtones, une pointe abricotée, une fleur mellifère...
  Indéniablement, la recherche des vignerons est la droiture, le vin reste simple, frais, salin, tendu.
  Cela n'a pas vraiment plu à l'audience alors que je louais cette justesse... petit moment de solitude ;-)
  J'aime son côté ciselé et net, salivant. Tout l'inverse du riche "un matin face au lac" bu à côté.

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• THECORKDORK Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 30, 2020 - Great little white here. Rich mineral and waxy. Underripe nectarine, chamomile, hay. Fascinating expression of Saint Joseph through Chasselas!

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  July 18, 2020 - The fruit is sourced from a 100-yo vineyard that is no more than 0,1 ha in size. Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. Aged for 11 months in barriques and demi-muids. 12,5% alcohol. Tasted half blind.
  
  Youthful, limpid pale green color. Ripe, juicy and wonderfully nuanced nose with aromas of apricots, some stony minerality, light waxy tones, a little bit of apple jam and ripe white peach, hints of sweet aromatic herbs and a touch of creamy oak. The wine is broad, ripe and full-bodied with some wonderful sense of concentration. Flavors of ripe apricots and white peach, some sweet golden apples, a little bit of waxy richness, light honeyed tones and a hint of creaminess suggesting oak aging. The overall feel is positively neutral - the wine isn't showing any obvious fruit characteristics, but isn't lacking in depth or intensity either. The moderately high acidity is enough to make the wine appear balanced and quite structured. The finish is rich and lengthy with intense flavors of ripe white peach and juicy apricot, some herbal spice, a little bit of creamy oak, light stony mineral tones and a hint of apple jam.
  
  A beautiful, rich and complex with impressive sense of concentration and depth of flavor. The wine might be true to the variety in the sense that Chasselas is relatively neutral a cultivar with quite modest acidity, but this wine is unlike almost any other Chasselas I've tasted in the sense that it is higher in acidity than a huge majority of Chasselas wines I've had, and the taste shows much more depth and complexity than I could expect from the variety. Even though I knew there was Gonon Chasselas in the lineup, I didn't expect it to be this wine - my own personal guess was that this is a Roussette. All in all, a truly remarkable effort for the variety. Feels still quite youthful, promising quite a bit of potential for further development. At 35€ this isn't cheap for a Chasselas, but the wine certainly delivers for the price. Recommended.

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• pren wrote: 89 points

  June 6, 2019 - 拉辛。第一次。气味乍闻很特殊，甚至像sauv blanc。酒体，回味，中。

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• Vintage 2017
• Type White
• Producer Pierre Gonon
• Varietal Chasselas
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• Country France
• Region Rhône
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• Appellation Vin de France

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