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Community Tasting Notes 65
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jlgnml Likes this wine: 94 points
September 22, 2022 - Grapes for Great Causes: Older SQN and SE Flight ‘06-‘09 (Les Nomades Chciago): Darker color, sharper finish, good palate feel, lots of alcohol on the finish. Really a good finish to the flight of whites. My #3 Grp#1.
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Peech Likes this wine: 92 points
May 1, 2022 - Served 1 hour after opening. Fragrant and buttery, and that's the chardonnay. A little metallic, ripe and alcoholic with some vanilla. It's too bad we didn't give the wine enough time.
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WildeMeeuw Likes this wine: 91 points
February 7, 2020 - Kleur: Medium goudgeel Aroma / bouquet: Ingetogen, zeker voor SQN een opvallend beperkte expressiviteit. En in dat opzicht maakt deze wijn een heel andere indruk dan toen ik hem met kerst 2017 proefde. Smaak / Afdronk: In de mond duidelijk meer uitgesproken. Meer expressief, meer complexiteit. Details van verfijnd hout, boenwas, caramel. Enorm lange afdronk. Met 16,5% wel HEEL royaal alcoholisch. Algemeen / potentieel: Indrukwekkend, maar veel indrukwekkender in de mond dan in de neus. 50 + Kleur: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 11 + Smaak / Afdronk: 17 + Algemeen / potentieel: 8 = 91/100
Color: Medium golden yellow Aroma / bouquet: Restrained, certainly for SQN a remarkably limited expressiveness. And in that respect, this wine makes a very different impression than when I tasted it at Christmas 2017. Taste / Aftertaste: Clearly more pronounced in the mouth. More expressive, more complexity. Details of refined wood, wax, caramel. Extremely long finish. Generously alcoholic with 16.5%. General / potential: Impressive, but much more impressive in the mouth than in the nose. 50 + Color: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 11 + Taste / Finish: 17 + General / potential: 8 = 91/100 -
Peech Likes this wine: 94 points
September 4, 2019 - Served 50 minutes after opening. Really ripe and big, very hot on both the palate and the nose. Some 1 hour and 40 minutes after opening the nose was absolutely beautiful, and almost like candied pineapple.
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dream Likes this wine: 93 points
May 15, 2018 - Chardonnay, Roussanne and Viognier. 15.7% alcohol had me leary that this could be any good but I was pleasantly surprised by the softness and balance here. It shows gentle and fairly mature flavors of tropical fruits, lime, coconuts and clove spice. The finish is most impressive with a very fine tip of the tongue complexity. The alcohol is in-check and not disturbing. Beats the hell out of me how he did it.
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By Stephen Tanzer
July/August 2005, IWC Issue #121 (link)(Sine Qua Non Sublime Isolation White Wine California) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2003
- Type White
- Producer Sine Qua Non
- Varietal White Rhone Blend
- Designation Sublime Isolation
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation California
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 3 (1%)
- In Cellars 226 (44%)
- Consumed 287 (56%)
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