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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 'Nothing but Chardonnay' dinner with Peter Rosback: Decanted 4 hours earlier (on opening it was very raw and aggressive). A gorgeous bouquet, multi-dimensional bouquet of spices, citrus, crushed river boulders, honey glazing, pears and other orchard fruit, minerals and gun flint. On palate, a clear step up on anything tasted earlier. Complex and nuanced with layers of flavours including citric, honeyed and stone and tropical fruit. Also real minerality in the mouth and an attractive saline element. Well integrated, spicy oak. Lovely, silky, creamy mouth feel and texture. Superb fruit weight. Very good acidity, showing no stereotypical 2009 overripeness. A long, mineral finish. The wine is very young, but it showed very well on the night, as compared with many of the other Burgundies. However, if it survives premox, I don’t doubt it has a long life ahead of it. It was not outclassed by the Montrachet but I rated it lower due to its more overt fruit flavour. 2=/3.

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