Matts 50th; 2/28/2020-3/2/2020 (Costa Brava): Quite rich and weightier than you’d think for its level, nuts and butter with a decent depth of fruit, fair acidity, great length, pretty stylish and in a good place right now
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Outclassed by the Vincent Dancer drunk alongside. Started off very buttery but this change to toffee over time. Not in a good place. Kept half the bottle for a second night, so hope it will improve.
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White Burgundy tasting (Rotterdam, Netherlands): Not quite double-blind –it came from the greater region of Burgundy, of course– this popped & poured wine prepped our olfactory apparatus for the next level. Very pale straw at the core, with a watery rim. The medium intense nose immediately transports me to the Côte de Beaune, with notes of spiced pear, toast and peach, framed in luxurious vanillin oak. Even for a card-carrying oakaphobe such as myself, the wood influence was well balanced by lift-lending notes of lemon rind & white flowers and even retreated with extended aeration. Pronounced acidity makes this wines seem medium-bodied, its 13,5% alcohol notwithstanding. On the mid-palate a slight cretaceous mineral streak lends even more lift to make this wine pleasantly potable despite its obvious youth. Medium-intense flavours of creamy peach aren’t quite as delineated as they appear on the nose yet, but there is enough depth to this wine to balance a slight phenolic edge here and on the 15-20 second finish. I gave 88 points blind and guessed 2010 Côte de Beaune white, but could not further determine the village. It indeed turned out to be the Ramonet Chassagne-Montrachet 2010. It may well improve up to two points within the 3-5 year “critical term”........................... TN Mike de Lange.
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8/27/2022 - jhngo Likes this wine: 93 Points
very good tension flinty.
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5/3/2022 - jhngo Likes this wine: 88 Points
A little advanced.
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4/26/2022 - jc11 wrote: flawed
Oxed.
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5/13/2020 - Rani wrote: 89 Points
Buttery and fully resolved. Hint of cucumber salad and pears. Fat. I think it is peaking and should be drunk up.
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2/28/2020 - kingkanu wrote:
Matts 50th; 2/28/2020-3/2/2020 (Costa Brava): Quite rich and weightier than you’d think for its level, nuts and butter with a decent depth of fruit, fair acidity, great length, pretty stylish and in a good place right now
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3/28/2016 - swaap wrote: 90 Points
Nez très ouvert typique sur la noisette, amande et beurre. Acidité présente et belle concentration en bouche.
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1/8/2016 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 89 Points
Light yellow, floral, delicious, good for its level
89
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4/26/2015 - WillersC wrote: 88 Points
Outclassed by the Vincent Dancer drunk alongside. Started off very buttery but this change to toffee over time. Not in a good place. Kept half the bottle for a second night, so hope it will improve.
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5/1/2014 - WillersC wrote: 91 Points
I really enjoyed this. Very elegant and long.Started off a bit disjointed but with time became very delicious
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9/19/2013 - tooch wrote: 90 Points
With some air this really fleshed out. Beautiful peach, lemon, lime and flinty notes. I liked this a lot...just wish it was $10-$15 less.
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7/26/2013 - Vervelb wrote: 90 Points
Buttery caramel in pale golden brightness, beautiful balance, pear and apple notes very subdued.
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1/18/2012 - Barry Rothof wrote: 88 Points
White Burgundy tasting (Rotterdam, Netherlands): Not quite double-blind –it came from the greater region of Burgundy, of course– this popped & poured wine prepped our olfactory apparatus for the next level.
Very pale straw at the core, with a watery rim. The medium intense nose immediately transports me to the Côte de Beaune, with notes of spiced pear, toast and peach, framed in luxurious vanillin oak. Even for a card-carrying oakaphobe such as myself, the wood influence was well balanced by lift-lending notes of lemon rind & white flowers and even retreated with extended aeration.
Pronounced acidity makes this wines seem medium-bodied, its 13,5% alcohol notwithstanding. On the mid-palate a slight cretaceous mineral streak lends even more lift to make this wine pleasantly potable despite its obvious youth. Medium-intense flavours of creamy peach aren’t quite as delineated as they appear on the nose yet, but there is enough depth to this wine to balance a slight phenolic edge here and on the 15-20 second finish. I gave 88 points blind and guessed 2010 Côte de Beaune white, but could not further determine the village. It indeed turned out to be the Ramonet Chassagne-Montrachet 2010. It may well improve up to two points within the 3-5 year “critical term”........................... TN Mike de Lange.
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