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Saturday, September 25, 2021 - My greatest day of wine (over)consumption. Ever. (Aaron and Tiffany's pad): First of the wines supplied by the boundlessly generous (let alone boundlessly wise about wines, csimm) to the extravaganza. Medium yellow-gold, full-bodied, medium thick legs. Perfectly attuned--more on that soon--acidity, no heat. Bat sh*t crazy complex, persistent and intense. This wine did the impossible; it rendered sfwl speechless. Yeah, it was only momentary, but this provoked dread and wonder in someone for whom such feelings are not easily provoked. Meyer Lemon, the most perfect, pristine sea you've ever encountered, white flowers and rocky minerality with faint notes of stone and tropical fruits, just in case you forgot you're in the Golden State. On first sip, I knew that, for me this was perfect; not just the best chardonnay I've ever had, not just the best white wine I've ever had, but the best wine, VERY full stop (completely copping to the inferiority of the pool of wines I drink vs. friends msu, csimm, A_M, etc.), and that feeling only increased as I drank 2 half glasses over the course of afternoon and early evening. I lazily fall back on my usual complimentary descriptors for wines I love of power, subtlety, balance and elegance, but after 2 days, I've found my personal differentiator: precision. It's not just that the salinity, sweetness, structure and secondary notes work immaculately together; it's that they are all present, and all in perfect quantities. I've thought of all manner of ridiculously non-wine analogies, but the first would be to paraphrase a favorite line from Amadeus, with a twist: "None would have wished it more" to which I'd add: or less. Expressive and beautiful without the "look at how great I am" quality which I think occasionally afflicts my previously preferred chard producer, Aubert (M&T: please *don't take this as a direction to re-route my '19s!), this is 2 parts super high end White Burg, 1 part best of CA. The perfect leanness comes without ever feeling austere; the incredible tension and tautness without being at the expense of generosity of rich texture, brilliantly concentrated without ever feeling extracted (extraction isn't a compliment in my book). I drank it before we started eating, but unlike Luc's PD, which preceded it, I think that this would be bulletproof with the gamut of fish dishes I love (although probably too rich for raw oysters and sushi) and white meat chicken, but I have to say, if someone invited me over ribeyes and said we'd be drinking this, I'm there, revving up the car 5 minutes ago (can you rev up a hybrid? idk). This is a piece of art, with the structure to age gracefully--and who knows? it could even get better, if perfection can improve--which renews my faith that, when dealing with Burgundian grapes, the locals can do only not as well, but better than our 6k distant amies (not that I'm writing any books on White Burgs, leaving that to csimm), and at what's generally a far better price point, thank you very much. Bravo, Messr. Morlet (Luc), and thank you, thank you, thank you, csimm, for bringing this, the greatest of wines on my greatest wine drinking day. Ever. Although this teeters near the top of red wine budget (and blows the white wine max), will find more. 100+

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