Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Saturday, June 29, 2013 - Dinner at Hwa Seafood (Hwa Seafood, Tagore Lane): A pleasant wine, but this was atypical both for a 2007 and for a Puligny Perrières, perhaps because of a little hint of oxidation that it suffered. It had a very advance, extremely rich nose for such a young wine, and from a shy vintage like 2007 too - sweet oak, ripe yellow fruit in the form of some peach and nectarine aromas, strangely developed smells of earth and mushrooms. Not unattractive, but it smelt a lot older than it should. The palate was marked by bright juicy acidity from the attack on, but that was probably the only sign of the 2007 vintage on the wine. Like the nose, this too showed very rich, and very developed, with ripe yellow fruit flavours chased by more sweet peach, and then even pineapple notes, all laid over a creamy, buttery stream that ran through the midpalate and into the finish, where little honeyed tones were met by a little kiss of spice and mineral. This was pretty enjoyable really, but atypically big, burly and forward, especially for a normally minerally vineyard in a vintage that is all about cut, precision and freshness in its whites. Most of us guessed Chassagne, and from much warmer vintages in the late 90s. In fact, but for the acidity on it, this could almost pass off as a good new world Chardonnay. This particular bottle was just a touch oxidative, and that could be the cause. I would hasten to pop one or two bottles to gauge their state if I was sitting on a case of this though.

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