Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - Chambolle 1er Cru Night with Sasi (The Universal @ Duxton Hill): Excellent. This was a really one-of-a-kind wine. No one quite makes wines like Alois Kracher, and the fact that no one could even place the country when this was served blind spoke volumes. Really powerful on the nose. Intense and complex, the glass just filled up with rich scents of nectarine, apricots, flowery orange blossoms, rich honey tones and a nice wafting darjeeling tea lift. Tons and tons of botrytis on the palate. Super rich, thick, almost viscous, yet it had enough acidity woven into its almost oily texture so that the wine never came across as cloying in spite of its massive weight. Again, really powerful, intense flavours here - honey notes galore, orange peel, orange marmalade, candied stone fruits, all moving inexorably through the mouth into a long finish where more of that lovely black tea note peeked out amongst the golden, honeyed flavours. This really derserved a lot more time and age in the bottle, but hey, this was as good an occasion to pop it as any.

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