Community Tasting Notes 10

• andtheodor wrote:

  June 24, 2022 - Smells like honey, safrron, iodine, dried apricots with a slightly stale pallor over it, a bit like an old passito smell. Fizz is vigorous, palate is bready, sourdough, lemon rind, pear, peculiar. I don't think these were ever intended to age for 25 years so I guess it's doing well considering that. Good but I wouldn't seek it out.

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• AtoZ wrote: 92 points

  March 16, 2013 - Great with food. Nice bottle. Had a corked bottle about a month ago.

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• AtoZ wrote: 92 points

  January 12, 2013 - Nice with fish and meyer lemon. Honeyed but not oth. Not particularly complex or long.

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• salil wrote: 90 points

  May 24, 2012 - Grand Sichuan jeeb with Oswaldo (St. Marks Place Grand Sich, NY): A nice way to start the evening; fresh citrus, pear and apple fruit accented with yeasty and savoury elements and turning more stony and minerally on the back end. Very youthful and lively with gentle effervescence but bright acidity and good length.

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• mdavis wrote:

  December 31, 2010 - The minerality shows through the perceived flab on the palate of this wine with air. Large bottle variation. Interesting for geeks...not so much for the rest.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type White - Sparkling
• Producer François Chidaine
• Varietal Chenin Blanc
• Designation Brut
• Vineyard Almendra
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Touraine
• Appellation Montlouis-sur-Loire

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• In Cellars 2 (11%)
• Consumed 17 (89%)

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