Community Tasting Note

strickt01 wrote:

Saturday, June 2, 2012 - I've consumed many bottles of wine, almost all of which I've enjoyed enormously, since I last posted a review here. However, none have compelled me to share my experiences of them in the way that this astonishing one did. Having read some previous reviews and decanted it for about two hours the nose intially had me worried. There was certainly no lack of pungency but charm and elegance were consequently missing. However, once poured into the glass these latter characteristics appeared in abundance as a beautiful florality began to offset the natural riesling petrol. So soft and caressing was the palate entry that the wine itself seemed encased in a fluid skin that only released the burst of acidity that the myriad fruits required as it hit the back of the mouth. The detectable flavours evolved constantly with the last glass providing as many surprises as the first; grapefruit, melon, peach, apricot, lemon, nettle, then more savoury elements that I failed to identify because my palate was so shocked and my mind so in awe of what I was experiencing. A phenomenal wine that sits alongside a Dagueneau 2005 Silex at the apex of my white wine experiences.

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