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Tony Molester Likes this wine:

Friday, April 25, 2014 - From auction. No seepage, but cork disintegrated at 3/4 length. The wine showed no sign of oxidation. Served at 14C.
Deep gold colour.
N: smells like the Brets used the entire Nevers forest for this wine. I am initially skeptical I will enjoy this.

P: Richly textured, with refreshing acidity that allows this heavy wine to avoid being cloying. Mainly oak and a bit of drying tannin, the chardonnay fruit was ripe, its vibrancy was muted by the slightly overpowering oak. Perhaps fashioned in the style of the surrounding Montrachet vineyards, the end result was very different: Pleasant but far from possessing their aerial texture. However, I'd tasted very few convincing Viré-Clessé wines, so this one was far superior in my limited experience.

Certainly the most intensely oaked wine of any colour tasted in at least 5 years, and not sure I'd drink a case of this, but this one bottle was quite civilized for camping standards.

13% abv
Drink or hold, this could hold up another 5 years or more.

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