February 1, 2023 - My gosh this was fantastic, the sugar has receeded and it’s such a crazy Riesling impostor. Peach pit, lemon, high acid. Bit of thyme and sage. Not a ton of secondary but the receding sugar means Id drink it now
August 9, 2020 - At first sniff I thought it was corked, but quickly realized it was just slightly oxidized and had some petroleum funkiness of an old spatlese. Gobs of acidity. Gobs! Very youthful. A bit disjointed but layers of flavors. Very interesting and a perfect geek wine.
May 14, 2019 - Sadly, corked.
November 10, 2018 - Found this squirreled away in the cellar - and as expected there is some oxidation on the nose after 16 years.. Getting by the oxidation the nose is mostly honey and hints of green apple - in the mouth the acidity is terrific and the wine dances around in the mouth - juicy and salivatingly good. I wish I drank this a few years ago but overall enjoyable to drink.
May 21, 2018 - Slightly gray 18k gold. Penetrating nose of pineapple, honeysuckle, botrytis. The palate is intense, concentrated yellow and white pommes and stone fruit, exotic and distinctly acidic, and mildly honey sweet. The finish is very long and mirrors the palate, fading from center to edges, and pleasantly barely bitter. We drank this for Mothers’ Day II, along with a dry Romarantin, it was very well received, especially by those who prefer sweet wine. For me, I can only sip this, it seems a very well-made wine, just somewhat overwhelming.
January 21, 2016 - On day one the wine was hard to drink. I thought at first it was corked and came close to tossing to down the drain. But wines from this region can show weird bottle funk, and so I put it into the fridge overnight. Next day the wine is fine and free of the funk. The aromatics are mostly about flint and stone, but they are pretty. and there is some honey and wool in there too. The wine drinks like a demi-sec from Montlouis or Vouvray, but without the same level of complexity as one of the great examples from those places. Very nice wine, but if cellar space is at a premium it's not clear to me why this wine, and not Huet or something like that.
August 2, 2015 - Nose is nice with slightly wooly and waxy honeyed fruit, much akin to Chenin. Not terribly complex, but lovely. The palate however is surprisingly disjointed. The acidity is screaming and there isn't the body or the depth of material to balance the wine. I loved this wine years ago. Hopefully I caught in in an awkward stage.
July 28, 2015 - Started out waxy and almost rieslingesque. Needed just a bit of time to stretch its legs. Golden and brassy but nothing here that's either literally sweet or figuratively so (honeyed, etc.). Straddles the line between pure chenin-like fruit and something a bit more fat and gushing - and manages to have the deeper tones that come with some development while still coming across vibrant and luminous.
October 19, 2014 - Nice. Prime time
May 4, 2013 - Complex and delicious, lime, rocks, sweet and tart tension, hints of petrol, great length. Really good. No rush to drink this one, there is plenty of acidity balanced by the residual sugar.