Community Tasting Notes 11

• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 points

  March 21, 2020 - Full yellow colour, hint of honey on the nose (botrytis?), mature but still energetic palate, ripe and rounded but still fresh, good flavour intensity and length. Good Sancerre, impressive for age, but only a shadow of its former glory. It was at peak between 2010 and 2015.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 points

  January 1, 2018 - A private dinner with friends (at home): Not as impressive as the bottles tasted in 2015, but better than the bottle tasted in April 2016. Honey and vegetables, elderflower, intense and remarkably energetic, but without the ultimate in excitement and nuance. But pretty impressive all the same.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 points

  April 19, 2016 - Seems different from previous bottles. Deep and full, straw yellow colour; deep and rich nose, tropical fruit, clearly hinting at botrytis, balanced by some freshness from the pyrazines, gunpowder; concentrated and full palate, dry but very rich, intense minerality, bracing acidity, tropical fruit, firm bitters; rather blunt finish. Impressive but on the coarse side - lacks elegance and finesse. Looking back at my previous notes, I find a similar profile in the TN of 20 March 2013. Retaste.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 points

  October 23, 2015 - Nothing to add to my previous notes. A whirlwind of a wine. Very impressive and delicious.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 points

  April 19, 2015 - This is such an amazing wine and this is once again a stunning bottle. Intense, almost luminescent green-golden colour; deep and powerful nose, really engages the taster, complete and complex, box-tree, grass, vegetables, flint, ripe (but not tropical) fruit, subtle hint of honey; there is immense tension and energy on the palate, with an almost salty mineral core and laser-like acidity in a constant and layered interplay with the rich but extremely precise flavours; complete finish, excellent length. At perfect peak, just that little more harmonious than last year. This is the Bâtard of the Loire. A perfect match for Elizabeth's (no less intense or elegant) spaghetti with prawns, chorizo and tomatoes.

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• Vintage 2002
• Type White
• Producer Henri Bourgeois
• Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
• Designation d'Antan
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Upper Loire
• Appellation Sancerre

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• In Cellars 14 (56%)
• Consumed 11 (44%)

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