April 12, 2024 - Tasted at the Chateau. A lovely complex wine!
Medium lemon
Pronounced intensity with aromas/flavors of blossom, meadow flowers, green apples, lemon peel, grape, grass, green leaf, spices and a touch of vanilla, honey & some dried green fruit. Great complexity
On the palate the wine is dry with high acidity, medium alcohol and body. The intensity in pronounced and the quality is outstanding and can drink now potential for aging.
November 10, 2023 - Impressive and damn serious wine.
Nose dominated by the SB. Blackcurrant leaf dominated initially, then showed preserved peach, stone, cedar, citrus peel.
Bright acidity and a full body, though never overwhelming. Leaves your tongue feeling dry, almost sandy. Wood, stone, grapefruit om the palate. Long finish.
An outstanding wine, albeit a little stern now. Will age beautifully.
October 8, 2023 - Pale yellow. Elegant floral nose. It ripe stone fruit with long finish
July 31, 2023 - 97+ wow. The nose is powerful, gorgeous, and intense with a dense core of highly extracted stewed peach, smoke, orchid blossoms, and vanilla, with a brooding baby’s diaper funk that is beautiful in its integration, staying in the background where it belongs but nonetheless adding a funky interest to a wine erupting with the freshest fruit and flower smells and pretty Tahitian vanilla lended by gentile oak treatment.
The palate is ridiculously juicy and fresh with acidity beckoning pink grapefruit and blood peach juice, with all of the primary aromas showing as it glides across the tongue, leaving enough of a coating to finish long but gracefully, but the one-two punch of the smell and taste will have you sticking your nose right back into the glass and then taking another sip.
Polished, nuanced, and balanced so well it’s astonishing because so many of the components are so powerful and gripping. A masterpiece. Halibut with clam fumet, bacon, and fines herbes, broccolini, chestnut mushrooms, and fingerling potatoes. A natural with fish and shellfish, why not go all out?
May 21, 2023 - Very strong nose of peach, honeysuckle and lemoncurd; medium body, the palate is delicate and with less acidity than I was expecting. Round and balanced, it's an elegant wine. It's drinking well now.
March 20, 2023 - Not rating this because it was just too young and writing this note from memory. Full of promise, excellent length with an interesting mix of citrus pith, lime, smoke and granite. Right now though the elements are all a jumble of conflict and bitter edges get in the way. Let’s throw out an “unofficial” number of 92-95. Keep for 3-5 years and revisit.
January 8, 2023 - Started a little tight on opening but blossomed after a few hours. Next day even better after storing in the fridge over night. Pineapple, floral, peach and cantaloupe up front with some bread/cookie and citrus on the backend. Salty and mineral throughout with plenty of acidity. Viscous and full in body.
November 10, 2022 - Open two hours. Moderately intense, subtle aromas of quince, herbs, beeswax, baguette. Dry, with moderate, buzzing acidity, full-bodied, 14.5°. Mostly savory and saline on the palate, but layered, with different flavors coming into focus and disappearing again, various pomme and stone fruit, citrus zest. Richly textured, creamy and grainy. Speaks softly but has a lot to say.
August 21, 2022 - Such a fun, well-refined wine. Notes of pear, vanilla and some softer, less tart flavors that pairs quite well the sea bass served alongside the wine. I anticipate this wine continuing to improve over the next several years.
June 27, 2022 - Very well made a balanced white. Big wine, great intensity and focus. Long finish.
Groups #1 of 5 Bordeaux Blanc in a blind tasting my #3.
Outstanding.