Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - Melvyn's 50th Birthday Bash (Hua Ting, Orchard Hotel): In magnum, this was beautifully youthful and very good indeed. The nose was quite reticent to start off, but there was a beautiful Puligny character to its bouquet, with little dollop of cream over gentle aromas of white flowers and sweet white fruit framed by chalky hints. Lovely. The palate was stunningly youthful, coming across almost tightly clenched, with lots of sweet lemony citrus and fresh acidity giving the wine a real sense of energy and verve. It was only the slightly rounded, mellower tones on the midpalate, with sweet ripe apples and peach flavours, that hinted at the wine’s age. There was a lot to admire here. Great finish too – long, insistent, with citrussy lemons spiked with lovely mineral tones and the littlest nutty hint. This was very good indeed. A very complete wine that seems as though it will need all of another decade, at least in a magnum format, to really hit its stride.

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