wow. this is certainly one to buy. on initial tasting after popping the cork...ideas of fresh apple fruit up front and then brown lees and some oxidative notes on the back end. shows much more mature than it's 2009 label suggests. surely has some almond and nutty character on the palate. nose shows maturity, white palate suggests perhaps further over the hill. very interesting style of wine that is not for everyone. again, reminding me of the o'shea scarborough or buty chards that display an O2 intensive leesy character. 'let's become friends' is probably the best way to approach this wine. really quite different front to back. Day 2. Red apple and cinnamon really popping in the aromas. Palate, again, is where the O2 heavy style really shows. Especially on the finish.
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A learning curve fromt the first batch, or at least less oak. Nice to see the evolution, onto something rather dramatic. Worth drinking, very much worth thinking about, and exciting to see what the future holds.
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What a totally unique and utterly delightful wine. Described to me as being in the Jura style, it has none of the all-out nutty, dry fino-ish attack of a vin jaune -- instead it's apple-y and floral with just a hint of that oxidative quality on the back end. Super-interesting, and yet not a wine that can only be enjoyed as a Mad Professor's Experiment. Unlike a Cornellissen or some of the Scholiums, I could serve this to the least winegeeky of my friends and get away with it, while my fellow oenotards would be frothing at the mouth as they tried to figure out just what all exactly was going on here... very fun.
no new oak used. more chablisienne vs the '08. relatively more crisp and clean. much more perfume here, and kenny does say there's some oxidation in there, but behind the youthful perfume it is a shy display. wonderful wine.
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1/14/2012 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Darn this is just right in the pocket. The oxidative thing is just perfectly matched to oak and Chard's SCM expression. What a wine.
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1/3/2012 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Right in the pocket and amazing right now.
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12/15/2011 - nzinkgraf wrote:
wow. this is certainly one to buy. on initial tasting after popping the cork...ideas of fresh apple fruit up front and then brown lees and some oxidative notes on the back end. shows much more mature than it's 2009 label suggests. surely has some almond and nutty character on the palate. nose shows maturity, white palate suggests perhaps further over the hill. very interesting style of wine that is not for everyone. again, reminding me of the o'shea scarborough or buty chards that display an O2 intensive leesy character. 'let's become friends' is probably the best way to approach this wine. really quite different front to back.
Day 2. Red apple and cinnamon really popping in the aromas. Palate, again, is where the O2 heavy style really shows. Especially on the finish.
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8/9/2011 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
A learning curve fromt the first batch, or at least less oak. Nice to see the evolution, onto something rather dramatic. Worth drinking, very much worth thinking about, and exciting to see what the future holds.
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6/15/2011 - wormfarmer wrote: 91 Points
What a totally unique and utterly delightful wine. Described to me as being in the Jura style, it has none of the all-out nutty, dry fino-ish attack of a vin jaune -- instead it's apple-y and floral with just a hint of that oxidative quality on the back end. Super-interesting, and yet not a wine that can only be enjoyed as a Mad Professor's Experiment. Unlike a Cornellissen or some of the Scholiums, I could serve this to the least winegeeky of my friends and get away with it, while my fellow oenotards would be frothing at the mouth as they tried to figure out just what all exactly was going on here... very fun.
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4/9/2011 - nzinkgraf wrote:
no new oak used. more chablisienne vs the '08. relatively more crisp and clean. much more perfume here, and kenny does say there's some oxidation in there, but behind the youthful perfume it is a shy display. wonderful wine.
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