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Sunday, October 24, 2021 - Retail $140. 100% Chenin Blanc. Under cork. It was a day. A pebble hit my windshield on the way to the airport and after a couple of days in long-term parking, it had developed into a major crack. Leaving the parking lot, the automated kiosk claimed I owed $138 for the four days I was there (it should have been $30). I got home and smashed a ramekin of guacamole all over my kitchen. And. I found out that my nemesis was leaving on a trip to France to write about wine (I was returning from Cleveland, where I was, well, in Cleveland). Then, on the way home, the sound system in my car suddenly was not working. At. All. So I decided to delve deep into the cellar, to pull out a wine that I had been saving, one that could reverse the intense negative mojo that had beset me. So I opted for this 2001 Joly Coulée de Serrant that I had purchased more than a dozen years ago from the PLCB for a fraction of its SRP ($35). How did that go? Well.... Amber, even a dark amber in the glass with plenty of lanolin, stewed citrus (if that is a thing), some petrol, and an overwhelming tartness. The palate? No real fruit to speak of, but plenty of intense nuttiness, intense acidity, and a finish that lasts for longer than parents' weekend seemed. No, this is not what I think it should be, but an interesting and thought -provoking quaff, nonetheless.Um. Dark. Did I mention that? No real fruit, plenty of tartness and oxidized notes. Sure, it is interesting and a 2001 white pretty much automatically gets a "Very Good" but this is more than that, is ever so slightly.

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