Community Tasting Note

cct wrote:

Monday, May 26, 2008 - My second time with this wine and it was formerly the greatest white wine I have ever had. Usually this situation leads to a letdown. Well not this time.
A gigantic nose of honey, flowers, fresh cream butter, again a lung filling nose. Almost viscous if a nose could be so. On the palate, this had brilliant acidity perfectly balanced with enormous texture. Cashews, toffee, tropical fruits, and roses. Simultaneously tremendously dense yet weightless. There is a purity in the nose and palate that I almost never get except in Riesling, but with just more of everything. This is poised opulence in a glass. Here is a ton of minerality and acid hid beneath hyperbole, hyperbole, hyperbole of texture and fruit. An unending finish. A wine to make a grown man cry (and I almost did). Still the greatest white wine I have had by a mile. 100pts.

As an aside, I made the mistake of drinking my glass of the ’95 two years ago over 30 minutes instead of 6 hours, a mistake I did not make this evening. I finished my night with this wine, along with following its progression over the evening. It was better at closing time than at first.

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