Decanted for 1 hour. Nose shows a bit touched by the vintage, with a green herbal element in addition to chalky citrus fruits. Palate is dry, crisp and chalky with little of the honeyed element that distinguishes Raveneau.
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Opened and decanted almost two hours before serving, this is still firm and backward. Lots of lemon, lemon peel, and lime notes with very good concentration and bracing acidity, this is is a powerhouse that is just barely entering its "fun" phase. Very long finish. Better now vs when last tasted in 2019.
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Don’t get to drink much Raveneau, so excited to open this. Certainly didn’t disappoint. But I preferred the 2012 I had of this last month. Salty and oyster shell on the palate. Lots of salinity on the nose too. I didn’t pick up the richness and texture I usually associate with Raveneau but that doesn’t take away from the enjoyment. Perhaps that’s a Butteaux character, as I noted the same from the 2012? Very refined and elegant. Good acidity.
Post note. I last had this wine back in 2017, when it showed as much more richer and generous, so it seems to have aged gracefully and become more refined with age.
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The one with Raveneau (Sonder): Pronounced florals - Jasmine and lilies, cheese rind, honeycomb with some unripe musk melon. Palate kinda tight at this moment as with some of the 2011s whites I’ve had - underripe melons, green apples and sudachi come to the fore.
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Un vin de texture, qui a de la mâche, d’une belle finesse en finale. Équilibré, rien n’accroche, et il ne fait que s’améliorer avec l’aération. Superbe.
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This has the trademark Raveneau purity and transparency: laser acidity, pebbles-in-a-stream minerality. Lemon, lime, green applse, unripe Piel de Sapo melon and a touch of honeysuckle. It is showing just hints of maturity with just a sprinkle of hard cheese. Very, very good staying power, just goes on and on. It is not the biggest wine, but impeccably balanced and hugely impressive. This goes to show that sometimes less is more, even in wine.
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Decanted for 3 hours. Served blind in a flight of 4 2011s, 2 from Chablis and 2 from Meursault. 2nd favorite wine of the flight. Powdered lemon candy dust, lemon rind, iodine and a subtle sweet tide pool element. Crisp, taut, chalky palate, drying and crunchy fruit with a lemon tingling finish. Excellent
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Intense oyster shell nose, with citrus. Linear in style with fresh acidity but more than adequate matière, gorgeous fresh acidity and a saline finish with more of those oyster shells. Not the most intense or the longest of finishes but absolutely delicious.
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Popped and poured, consuming the last 1/2 the next day. Note is from day 2. Very subtle nose, clean, floral, crisp with faint lemons and a limestone chalky element. The palate is elegant and silky with a super clean rainwater element, subtle salinity and some lemon rind and soil on the finish. Excellent.
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Salty, very salty. Initial impression is of brine but seawater instead of shell has me worried. Colour good, nose good if a little bit subdued. Tastes too bitter to be correct. Giving it time. The nose is flinty and ethereal but I'm not sold on the palate. The nose suggests it's going to be fantastic! I'm still waiting for this thing to takeoff. A third of the way in to this bottle and the palate is starting to come around, slowly. This has been the longest I've ever waited to see what I thought would materialise initially but it's now starting to open up. Decanter would help a lot with this wine. Been open about an hour and now it's coming together. Very salty/brine character is now giving way to that more classic textural quality that makes Chablis so good. This is so weird this bottle but now it's building complexity in the glass. I don't think I've ever seen such a transformation in a wine from almost unpleasant to almost sublime. It's definitely defined by a salty/acidic spine and is leaner than other vintages I've had but you can still see the Raveneau greatness in what looks to be a difficult vintage. Probably not the best Butteaux I've ever had but a wine of great character and personality. Keeps getting better as the edginess melts away. Really good now. So backward to begin now the purity coming through, wet stone, calcare. I could have overlooked/dismissed this rough diamond on other nights you need patience with this wine.
Initial impression. Very good. Bottle is fresh and tight as a drum. Makes me wonder why the wines further south get all the accolades because this is so pure. Precision and restraint is what I love about great Chablis so many Cote de Beaune wines are too rich and over the top. This is the opposite of that, tight, coil like tension, saline/brine, beeswax, classic Chablis in every way. Maybe not quite the flavour profile of the best vintages but pretty damn good. The last ten years the world has caught up, or at least the prices have, to what this Domaine has been doing forever and it's no longer easy to find without paying a premium for it. It still is better value than the more fancied players from Puligny/Meursault etc. If I wanted to get a top line bottle of Burgundy and show someone who knew nothing about it Raveneau would be at the top of the list. Even with current pricing this Butteaux shows that you don't have to break the bank to experience top shelf wine from Burgundy.
Edit: Wrote this note early on in the bottle but it has begun to shift through the gears as it sits in the glass. Seems like Raveneau doesn't have the same volume of premox issues? I still think this relates to a lack of sulphur in the winemaking (in other producers wines) but it's hard to understand why this seems to only be a modern issue? Screwcaps would also help but might be waiting a while for that to happen.
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Not the most touted Chablis vintage, but this was fantastic. Typical Raveneau with creamy lemon and underlying minerality. Youthful and has a long life ahead of it, but drinking so well with a little air.
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Showing great, no signs of age in the clear yellow color. Fresh taut nose of vanilla slate, seawater, key lime pie, hazelnut. Great silky mouthfeel. Great paired with multiple courses at Michelin *** Manresa.
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Nez fermé et réduit à l'ouverture. Après un carafage de 30 min., le vin s'ouvre un peu sur des notes minérales et de noisette. La bouche est d'une grande finesse tout en offrant un joli gras et beaucoup de fraîcheur. Le touché de bouche marque la classe du vin, l'aromatique manque un peu de complexité à ce stade, il faut attendre au moins 3 à 5 ans.
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Tasted over 3 hrs -translucent pale gold green -gently marine -med+ acidity imparts a beautiful intensity yet doesn't negate the soft almost lush mouthfeel, med/med- weight faint remnants of citrus and white fruit gain strength and last through the moderately long finish, no oxidative notes -this is classic elegantly regal Raveneau, so remarkable how there is power and softness without flabbiness, drinking very well now but might benefit from several more years to develop more complexity and tertiary elements
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Small tasting glass @ VINEUM during service, so a brief note. From Magnum! Paid 6,7 the price of a normal bottle for this Magnum, so had my hopes up. It is straight up great, what a long and vibrant finish. Lucky guests tonight...!
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Out of mag format. This was really rocking. My benchmark for white burg. Bright acidity on the mouthfeel, and nice white flowers on the nose. Solid minerality and light citrus fruits on the palate. Also a crowd pleaser as well.
PnP and consumed over an afternoon.
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Double blind with 2012 Ceritas Porter Bass (nice trick with the yellow wax, right?). More structured and closed in than the Sonoma wine, as you might expect. But this was just so firm, at least in part due to the reduction, and largely in part due to the structure. Would love to see more fruit and expression.
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Blind "Grand Cru" with Lobster & Flannery Steak (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Served double blind, although the yellow wax capsule and serious reduction made it obvious this was Raveneau. Lemon and lime came through clearly post reduction, with real pop and energy. Some bitter pith elements on finish add some roughness, but also complexity. Good now, with upside. While most others preferred the Ceritas in the next glass, this was the clear class of the flight.
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"Grand cru" blinds (Chicago, IL): Served double blind. Correctly identified as white Burgundy, and I even got the vintage on this. It's too smoky and reduced, with a bit of a green stemmy quality that mars pretty much the whole vintage, so the call isn't too difficult. Nice acidity and minerality, but it doesn't make up for the green taint. Sadly it looks like I've liked this wine less and less every time I've tasted it.
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I’ve read some tepid notes on this vintage for this producer. This bottle didn’t follow that Hoyle. Vibrant and fresh with clean minerality, and a strong midpalate leading to a fine finish. What else is there? Ok. Not profound. But, quite delicious.
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Lean, almost green, the 2011 Butteaux shows the weaker side of this cool, wet vintage. Appealing minerality is marred by a thin palate and short finish. Interestingly, tasting notes on CT seem bimodal, making me wonder if there are multiple lots bottled here. (A previous bottle four years ago showed weighty and rich.)
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Survey of 2011 Dauvissat and Raveneau Premier and Grand Crus (San Francisco): Yellow. Exciting scents of flowers, lemon, and crushed stone. Elegant, silky, medium weight. Bright citrus fruit, superb soil and mineral finish. Fantastic Premier Cru which is just rounding into form. It should delight for another decade.
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Five winos excellent adventure , mostly in Burgundy; 6/7/2019-6/15/2019 (Beaune, France): Nicely detailed nose displaying dense yellow citrus fruit, also granny smith, honey, honeysuckle, a hint of the 11 green, spearmint, rainwater and wet stone. Very good concentration, nicely layered concentrated yellow fruit, rich yet very precise and beautifully focused, bright acidity, strong mineral and a long clean yellow citrus fruit driven finish. It has developed nice for the past five years.
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Pretty young and lean at the moment. Doesn’t show complexity it should yet but the classic notes are there. But give it 3-4 years to see how it evolves.
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very nice, definitely benefitted from a two hour decant and several hours back in bottle, this is mostly classic chablis from FR -- but with a tad more body / roundness than I would have expected for Raveneau and especially for a 2011, assuming it wasn't a problem for this particular bottle, I think this can be enjoyed early
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Rather flat and lean relative to a singing '07 tasted side-by-side. There's an herbal/jalapeno quality to this wine that's interesting. Lean with high acids. Good citrus notes. But tough to truly enjoy in the flight.
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Dinner at PST (Chicago, IL): This was a bit of a conundrum, especially next to the absolutely incredible bottle of 2007. The relative leanness of this vintage shows, and more troubling was a distinct green note that I picked up on the palate, akin to those little strings you pull out of sugar snap peas. Nonetheless, this has a nice mineral element to it, but in context, it seems pretty clear to me that this is a bit of a runt.
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get it blind guessed Chablis 2010 but I excluded Raveneau. Lean, precise, citrus dominated, less concentrated than usually but nicely balanced with some subtle nuts in the finish. 93
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Unsure if the wine is in a closed stage or the bottle was not the best! Overall very closed. Lots of air needed to open up the wine. On the nose lemon and some vanilla. Too much oak on the palate for me/ oak not nicely integrated. Good acidity but overall just a bit flat with only some typical lemon and austere tones. I love chablis and raveneau but this wine was slightly disappointing.
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The big Raveneau tasting (Kjell Tores Mat - Oslo): Domaine Francois Raveneau Butteaux 2011: Another green one. Green peppers to be precise that ruins the wine a bit. Crushed graphite and quite heavy with minerals on the palate. Good acidic backbone that need more fruit not to make it way too perky.
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Really really tight on the nose, would have been better with more than 1h30 of air, some citrus with pastry cream, vanilla and wet wool on the nose. Intense expression at first on the palate with orange oil, juniper, crushed wet rocks, impressive citrusy mid-palate and long iodine/mineral finish. This is really good but appeared a little disjointed, this will require at least a few extra years to bind together the acidity with all the textural and flavor profile.
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A private tasting @ JD's home. Tasted blind. This flight we had the 2011 Butteaux and 2003 Butteaux side-by-side. This shows lemon, spices and stony citrusfruit with excellent length!
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Dinner at Formento's with Ross (Chicago, IL): This just ticks all the checkboxes. It's got that beautiful Raveneau salinity and citrus. The slightly waxy and rich palate works incredibly well with the acidity here (it didn't at all in 2012). A bit soft and not quite what you would think of when you think of the bright high-acid mineral chablis archetype, this is instead a brilliant wine in its own right.
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SLDS August 2017: Quite tight on the nose, with some wax, herb and lemon. The palate is nice, with plenty of minerality and good balance throughout. Perhaps it is in a bit of an awkward spot at the moment as it isn't showing as well as a couple of years ago, I think it should come out the other side showing much better.
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Gorgeous young Raveneau - very light color, no signs of aging on the color/nose. Very fresh, stone fruit, briny, high toned minerally nose. Ethereally balanced on the palate with loads of fruit balanced by steely spicy minerality.
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Tasted blind. Straw in color, asparagus and grass on the nose. Palate was soft (almost creamy) with sweet lemon and a faint bitter vegetal note. The finish was balanced with very soft but persistent acid. I guessed this was a marsanne. Not what I've come to identify as Chablis, but I also don't have much experience with Raveneau.
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Beautiful wine with plenty of time let. crushed shells, high lemon hints, lovely acidity and minerality. good finish that i think will become fuller as time moves on. Delicious.
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I like this a lot, probably more so than the 2011 MdT I had last year. Paired really well with sole almondine. Approachable now, but will certainly continue to age well.
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No reason not to really enjoy this bottle. Great sweetness and balance on the palate. Ripe fruits, hint of citrus. Touch of saltiness on the finish. Rich and creamy feel in the mouth. I don't have loads of experience with Ravaneau. Is this usually a more generous cuvée?
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I'm a lover of the Dauvissat wines and this 1er cru from Raveneau is certainly a very worthy challenger. First impression for me is Puligny, than you notice a higher, but ripe, acidity and that reminded me of the grillo grape (Sicily). This chablis is super refined with a floral/minty undertone.
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Blind Chablis Tasting (River Forest, IL): Tasted blind in Chablis flight. Ever-so-slightly reductive aromas, making me think this Raveneau. Ripe fruit still clear on nose, more clear on palate with moderate weight but almost perfect balance. My 3rd favorite wine tonight, the group's #2.
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PopnPour, tasted over 2 hrs -translucent pale light gold grey green -tidal pool saline -med acidity, med/med- weight mid-palate with a bit less intensity than usual for this wine, elegant minerality with lemon citrus, stony finish -very good though not stellar at this point in its evolution, suspect it will pick up some complexity over the next 5 years
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Most better than the various premox bottles I had from Raveneau over the last couple of years. With this producer, I would rather err on the side of caution. Great Chablis character even if it clearly hasn't fully evolved yet. Impeccable balance, great texture and beautiful finish. Will wait 2 years for other bottles
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Première expérience avec Butteaux ici (Finalement Montée Tonerre que j'ai bu à deux reprises). Beaucoup de citron,citron confits et un peu de souffre au nez.Légèrement herbacé (estragon). Minérale à souhait avec une belle aciditée et une belle longueur.Manque un peu de consistance mais très bien quand même. 91 pts
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Straw color. Nose of crushed oyster shell, green apple, lemon, and iodine. Intense flavors of lime oil and ripe pineapple coat the mouth. Creamy, medium body. Medium-high acidity. This wine is rich, layered, and completely inviting. Drink now through 2025.
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Opened and poured, this wine gave an excellent. It gives a similar impression to previously tasted bottle. This bottle benefits from airing and shows it best about an hour after opening suggesting it will continue to benefit from additional bottle age.
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Very clean nose, some lemon and broth elements. Surprisingly accessible palate, light with good flavor intensity and a surprising lack of acidity and grip for a young Raveneau. Drinking very well at this young age, with enough complexity to make it interesting.
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Rockstars of Burgundy: Mineral driven, saline, slate, graphite and lemon. Really good purity of flavour, very good acidity, very clean and driven. Nice length behind it.
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Chablis-athon (Chicago, IL): One of my perennial jokes about this vineyard involves the Sir Mix-A-Lot classic, "I like big Butteaux and I cannot lie." Irreverence aside, this really wasn't a big Butteaux at all. Nice and firm but demure and not showing very much at the moment besides some slight mineral and saline notes. On the other hand, the acidity on this could generate way more electricity than all of Miley's twerking ever will.
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Pretty, quite delicate and precise, but a bit understated at the moment, also compared to the somewhat more intense MdT of the same vintage. Gives more on the palate than on the nose, at least for the first couple of hours. The balance is impeccable and the finish is long and complex. I'm a believer in an even brighter future.
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March Dinner Offline: Plenty of interest on the nose, incense spice, lemon, smoke and orange. Good persistence and length, very fine and detailed. Approachable already with some lovely fruit, but also has the structure to age and develop really nicely.
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At Ai Fiori in NYC...first wine of what turned out to be a big evening. served as an aperitif
First experience with this wine. Color is light gold. Classic Chablis nose of ocean/oyster, floral notes. Citrus, mineral, lime on the palate. Had an oily texture. Medium finish.
Only a small pour to begin the veining, this is a serious wine that would be best drank with a little time. My guess is it would evolve nicely if given an hour or so to unwind. Has a long arc in front of it, will continue to add complexity with age, IMO.
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Decanted and poured, this wine gave an excellent showing. The aromatics show oyster shell, citrus, floral, chalk and slight green apple notes. The color is a vibrant and youthful light yellow. The light to medium bodied palate shows youthful fruit and excellent balance. The wine gives a medium length finish and has enough acidity to keep the wine focused. The wine gave the impression that it should develop and improve with additional bottle age.
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Pop and pour, so darn tight, not revealing much, lime juice, honey and acid. With air, classic Raveneau, oil, citrus, mineral, saline and flowers. Medium weight, mouth puckering acidity, mineral and good finish. There is a hint of unripe fruit which is not bothersome. Although showing a lot or minerality and acidity, I don’t get the fresh and energetic impression. It is enjoyable now but will improve.
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Lime like fruit impression, margarita, honey, a hint flowers, mountain stream that I typically get from Raveneau and seashell. There is a hint of green/pyrazine note, not GM impression at this stage. As usual, oily palate impression but the middle palate a bit hollow and the finish is a bit short. The palate also gives margarita like acidity. IMO, the oily/unctuous style of Raveneau makes this 1er crus a step above the Dauvissat’s. No GM but a slight hint of green that comes and goes. Quiet enjoyable but a step below the 10s for me.
There’s a heady scent of citrus blossom coupled with a coolness, reminiscent of lilies growing around a freshwater stream. Like all of the other Raveneau ‘11’s I’ve had (and most of the ‘10’s for that matter) there is plenty of ripe orchard fruit action. It has plenty of salty/iodine notes below the rambunctious fruit and flora. It really breathes up well in the glass and has a big squeeze of pure lemon juice on the finish.
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Light yellow. Some sulfur to blow off. Green fruits, brothy, medium weight, fantastic texture and length even at this young age. Not a particularly high acid wine.
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10/8/2023 - llink wrote: 90 Points
Decanted for 1 hour. Nose shows a bit touched by the vintage, with a green herbal element in addition to chalky citrus fruits. Palate is dry, crisp and chalky with little of the honeyed element that distinguishes Raveneau.
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9/23/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Opened and decanted almost two hours before serving, this is still firm and backward. Lots of lemon, lemon peel, and lime notes with very good concentration and bracing acidity, this is is a powerhouse that is just barely entering its "fun" phase. Very long finish. Better now vs when last tasted in 2019.
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8/27/2023 - PC73 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Don’t get to drink much Raveneau, so excited to open this. Certainly didn’t disappoint. But I preferred the 2012 I had of this last month.
Salty and oyster shell on the palate. Lots of salinity on the nose too.
I didn’t pick up the richness and texture I usually associate with Raveneau but that doesn’t take away from the enjoyment. Perhaps that’s a Butteaux character, as I noted the same from the 2012? Very refined and elegant. Good acidity.
Post note. I last had this wine back in 2017, when it showed as much more richer and generous, so it seems to have aged gracefully and become more refined with age.
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1/20/2023 - RobinTeo wrote: 92 Points
The one with Raveneau (Sonder): Pronounced florals - Jasmine and lilies, cheese rind, honeycomb with some unripe musk melon. Palate kinda tight at this moment as with some of the 2011s whites I’ve had - underripe melons, green apples and sudachi come to the fore.
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12/24/2022 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 92 Points
Perfect lemon colour.
Soft white flowers ,
Lemon zest, honeysuckle , light herbal spice . Medium weight richness , honey and lemon compote . Excellent acidity and long resonating finish. Delicious drinking , peaked, but nice flavour intensity .
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12/3/2022 - Mazy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Un vin de texture, qui a de la mâche, d’une belle finesse en finale. Équilibré, rien n’accroche, et il ne fait que s’améliorer avec l’aération. Superbe.
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11/19/2022 - Puteljen! Likes this wine: 95 Points
This has the trademark Raveneau purity and transparency: laser acidity, pebbles-in-a-stream minerality. Lemon, lime, green applse, unripe Piel de Sapo melon and a touch of honeysuckle. It is showing just hints of maturity with just a sprinkle of hard cheese. Very, very good staying power, just goes on and on. It is not the biggest wine, but impeccably balanced and hugely impressive. This goes to show that sometimes less is more, even in wine.
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9/10/2022 - NJwineguy wrote: flawed
Premoxed
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8/15/2022 - llink wrote: 92 Points
Decanted for 3 hours. Served blind in a flight of 4 2011s, 2 from Chablis and 2 from Meursault. 2nd favorite wine of the flight.
Powdered lemon candy dust, lemon rind, iodine and a subtle sweet tide pool element. Crisp, taut, chalky palate, drying and crunchy fruit with a lemon tingling finish. Excellent
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6/16/2022 - jamesabdavis wrote:
Intense oyster shell nose, with citrus.
Linear in style with fresh acidity but more than adequate matière, gorgeous fresh acidity and a saline finish with more of those oyster shells.
Not the most intense or the longest of finishes but absolutely delicious.
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1/14/2022 - WEB,III Likes this wine: 92 Points
Shared with Egon Muller IV
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5/8/2021 - finediningnyc Likes this wine: 92 Points
11’ Raveneau always on the savory side but its herbal qualities made for a great match with a Korean tasting menu, Jua.
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5/7/2021 - Larslatour wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful.
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3/21/2021 - llink wrote: 91 Points
Popped and poured, consuming the last 1/2 the next day. Note is from day 2. Very subtle nose, clean, floral, crisp with faint lemons and a limestone chalky element. The palate is elegant and silky with a super clean rainwater element, subtle salinity and some lemon rind and soil on the finish. Excellent.
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10/1/2020 - AJ72 wrote: 92 Points
Salty, very salty. Initial impression is of brine but seawater instead of shell has me worried. Colour good, nose good if a little bit subdued. Tastes too bitter to be correct. Giving it time. The nose is flinty and ethereal but I'm not sold on the palate. The nose suggests it's going to be fantastic! I'm still waiting for this thing to takeoff. A third of the way in to this bottle and the palate is starting to come around, slowly. This has been the longest I've ever waited to see what I thought would materialise initially but it's now starting to open up. Decanter would help a lot with this wine. Been open about an hour and now it's coming together. Very salty/brine character is now giving way to that more classic textural quality that makes Chablis so good. This is so weird this bottle but now it's building complexity in the glass. I don't think I've ever seen such a transformation in a wine from almost unpleasant to almost sublime. It's definitely defined by a salty/acidic spine and is leaner than other vintages I've had but you can still see the Raveneau greatness in what looks to be a difficult vintage. Probably not the best Butteaux I've ever had but a wine of great character and personality. Keeps getting better as the edginess melts away. Really good now. So backward to begin now the purity coming through, wet stone, calcare. I could have overlooked/dismissed this rough diamond on other nights you need patience with this wine.
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8/29/2020 - BastardMontrachet Likes this wine: 94 Points
In a really good stage now with lots of acidity,oily taste,enormous boquet packed of stonefruits,yellow fruits,fat oily butterness. Just delicious
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8/12/2020 - AJ72 wrote: 93 Points
Initial impression. Very good. Bottle is fresh and tight as a drum. Makes me wonder why the wines further south get all the accolades because this is so pure. Precision and restraint is what I love about great Chablis so many Cote de Beaune wines are too rich and over the top. This is the opposite of that, tight, coil like tension, saline/brine, beeswax, classic Chablis in every way. Maybe not quite the flavour profile of the best vintages but pretty damn good. The last ten years the world has caught up, or at least the prices have, to what this Domaine has been doing forever and it's no longer easy to find without paying a premium for it. It still is better value than the more fancied players from Puligny/Meursault etc. If I wanted to get a top line bottle of Burgundy and show someone who knew nothing about it Raveneau would be at the top of the list. Even with current pricing this Butteaux shows that you don't have to break the bank to experience top shelf wine from Burgundy.
Edit: Wrote this note early on in the bottle but it has begun to shift through the gears as it sits in the glass. Seems like Raveneau doesn't have the same volume of premox issues? I still think this relates to a lack of sulphur in the winemaking (in other producers wines) but it's hard to understand why this seems to only be a modern issue? Screwcaps would also help but might be waiting a while for that to happen.
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8/8/2020 - Larslatour wrote: 93 Points
A wine of it´s kind. Sutle taste of citrus, honey, lemon.
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7/26/2020 - B Paul wrote:
Not the most touted Chablis vintage, but this was fantastic. Typical Raveneau with creamy lemon and underlying minerality. Youthful and has a long life ahead of it, but drinking so well with a little air.
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4/24/2020 - maaike2 wrote: 93 Points
Kicking and alive, many years to go. High acidity, nice bitters. lemon, nuts, flowers. Stunning balance and refinement. Great!!!
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12/8/2019 - danstrings Likes this wine: 94 Points
Showing great, no signs of age in the clear yellow color. Fresh taut nose of vanilla slate, seawater, key lime pie, hazelnut. Great silky mouthfeel. Great paired with multiple courses at Michelin *** Manresa.
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12/8/2019 - steinersing wrote: 93 Points
Quite aromatic, steady over three hours. Little age so far, guess wax capsule may contribute.
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12/3/2019 - Jeanda Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nez fermé et réduit à l'ouverture. Après un carafage de 30 min., le vin s'ouvre un peu sur des notes minérales et de noisette. La bouche est d'une grande finesse tout en offrant un joli gras et beaucoup de fraîcheur. Le touché de bouche marque la classe du vin, l'aromatique manque un peu de complexité à ce stade, il faut attendre au moins 3 à 5 ans.
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12/1/2019 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
Tasted over 3 hrs
-translucent pale gold green
-gently marine
-med+ acidity imparts a beautiful intensity yet doesn't negate the soft almost lush mouthfeel, med/med- weight faint remnants of citrus and white fruit gain strength and last through the moderately long finish, no oxidative notes
-this is classic elegantly regal Raveneau, so remarkable how there is power and softness without flabbiness, drinking very well now but might benefit from several more years to develop more complexity and tertiary elements
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9/7/2019 - dvansteenderen Likes this wine: 94 Points
Small tasting glass @ VINEUM during service, so a brief note. From Magnum! Paid 6,7 the price of a normal bottle for this Magnum, so had my hopes up. It is straight up great, what a long and vibrant finish. Lucky guests tonight...!
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8/31/2019 - mrbry83 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Out of mag format. This was really rocking. My benchmark for white burg. Bright acidity on the mouthfeel, and nice white flowers on the nose. Solid minerality and light citrus fruits on the palate. Also a crowd pleaser as well.
PnP and consumed over an afternoon.
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8/31/2019 - Nanda wrote:
Double blind with 2012 Ceritas Porter Bass (nice trick with the yellow wax, right?). More structured and closed in than the Sonoma wine, as you might expect. But this was just so firm, at least in part due to the reduction, and largely in part due to the structure. Would love to see more fruit and expression.
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8/31/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Blind "Grand Cru" with Lobster & Flannery Steak (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Served double blind, although the yellow wax capsule and serious reduction made it obvious this was Raveneau. Lemon and lime came through clearly post reduction, with real pop and energy. Some bitter pith elements on finish add some roughness, but also complexity. Good now, with upside. While most others preferred the Ceritas in the next glass, this was the clear class of the flight.
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8/31/2019 - acyso wrote: 88 Points
"Grand cru" blinds (Chicago, IL): Served double blind. Correctly identified as white Burgundy, and I even got the vintage on this. It's too smoky and reduced, with a bit of a green stemmy quality that mars pretty much the whole vintage, so the call isn't too difficult. Nice acidity and minerality, but it doesn't make up for the green taint. Sadly it looks like I've liked this wine less and less every time I've tasted it.
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8/21/2019 - Kim Gerner wrote: 91 Points
Raveneau, Zind Humbrecht etc - Wine tasting dinner (Erik Sørensen, Søllerød Kro): Medium intensity, a little bitterness which I am not craxy about. An excellent wine but not close to vintage 2007, which I tasted it against and which was clearly performing better (se my notes - score 95).
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8/17/2019 - jeff nowak Likes this wine: 94 Points
I’ve read some tepid notes on this vintage for this producer. This bottle didn’t follow that Hoyle. Vibrant and fresh with clean minerality, and a strong midpalate leading to a fine finish. What else is there? Ok. Not profound. But, quite delicious.
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8/5/2019 - rlove wrote: 89 Points
Lean, almost green, the 2011 Butteaux shows the weaker side of this cool, wet vintage. Appealing minerality is marred by a thin palate and short finish. Interestingly, tasting notes on CT seem bimodal, making me wonder if there are multiple lots bottled here. (A previous bottle four years ago showed weighty and rich.)
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6/30/2019 - drwine2001 wrote:
Survey of 2011 Dauvissat and Raveneau Premier and Grand Crus (San Francisco): Yellow. Exciting scents of flowers, lemon, and crushed stone. Elegant, silky, medium weight. Bright citrus fruit, superb soil and mineral finish. Fantastic Premier Cru which is just rounding into form. It should delight for another decade.
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6/11/2019 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points
Five winos excellent adventure , mostly in Burgundy; 6/7/2019-6/15/2019 (Beaune, France): Nicely detailed nose displaying dense yellow citrus fruit, also granny smith, honey, honeysuckle, a hint of the 11 green, spearmint, rainwater and wet stone. Very good concentration, nicely layered concentrated yellow fruit, rich yet very precise and beautifully focused, bright acidity, strong mineral and a long clean yellow citrus fruit driven finish. It has developed nice for the past five years.
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6/10/2019 - LW31 wrote:
Pretty young and lean at the moment. Doesn’t show complexity it should yet but the classic notes are there. But give it 3-4 years to see how it evolves.
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5/26/2019 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 92 Points
very nice, definitely benefitted from a two hour decant and several hours back in bottle, this is mostly classic chablis from FR -- but with a tad more body / roundness than I would have expected for Raveneau and especially for a 2011, assuming it wasn't a problem for this particular bottle, I think this can be enjoyed early
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5/2/2019 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points
Rather flat and lean relative to a singing '07 tasted side-by-side. There's an herbal/jalapeno quality to this wine that's interesting. Lean with high acids. Good citrus notes. But tough to truly enjoy in the flight.
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5/2/2019 - acyso wrote: 90 Points
Dinner at PST (Chicago, IL): This was a bit of a conundrum, especially next to the absolutely incredible bottle of 2007. The relative leanness of this vintage shows, and more troubling was a distinct green note that I picked up on the palate, akin to those little strings you pull out of sugar snap peas. Nonetheless, this has a nice mineral element to it, but in context, it seems pretty clear to me that this is a bit of a runt.
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3/24/2019 - aquacongas wrote: 93 Points
get it blind
guessed Chablis 2010 but I excluded Raveneau. Lean, precise, citrus dominated, less concentrated than usually but nicely balanced with some subtle nuts in the finish. 93
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2/3/2019 - smør wrote: 89 Points
Unsure if the wine is in a closed stage or the bottle was not the best! Overall very closed. Lots of air needed to open up the wine. On the nose lemon and some vanilla. Too much oak on the palate for me/ oak not nicely integrated. Good acidity but overall just a bit flat with only some typical lemon and austere tones. I love chablis and raveneau but this wine was slightly disappointing.
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10/25/2018 - Bobhelge wrote: 88 Points
The big Raveneau tasting (Kjell Tores Mat - Oslo): Domaine Francois Raveneau Butteaux 2011:
Another green one. Green peppers to be precise that ruins the wine a bit. Crushed graphite and quite heavy with minerals on the palate. Good acidic backbone that need more fruit not to make it way too perky.
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2/19/2018 - matt182 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Really really tight on the nose, would have been better with more than 1h30 of air, some citrus with pastry cream, vanilla and wet wool on the nose. Intense expression at first on the palate with orange oil, juniper, crushed wet rocks, impressive citrusy mid-palate and long iodine/mineral finish. This is really good but appeared a little disjointed, this will require at least a few extra years to bind together the acidity with all the textural and flavor profile.
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11/23/2017 - dvansteenderen Likes this wine: 93 Points
A private tasting @ JD's home. Tasted blind. This flight we had the 2011 Butteaux and 2003 Butteaux side-by-side. This shows lemon, spices and stony citrusfruit with excellent length!
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11/22/2017 - jfpwine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light gold. Sharp mineral nose. Zesty lemon, green apple and oyster sheep palate. Acidity through the long finish. Great.
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10/18/2017 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
Firing on all cylinders, but very young and primary. Loads of structure behind the crisp, saline white fruit.
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10/18/2017 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at Formento's with Ross (Chicago, IL): This just ticks all the checkboxes. It's got that beautiful Raveneau salinity and citrus. The slightly waxy and rich palate works incredibly well with the acidity here (it didn't at all in 2012). A bit soft and not quite what you would think of when you think of the bright high-acid mineral chablis archetype, this is instead a brilliant wine in its own right.
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8/31/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
SL's dinner @ JP.
This was very nice - honey, minerality, great freshness! My favourite white for the evening...
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8/10/2017 - CamWheeler wrote: 90 Points
SLDS August 2017: Quite tight on the nose, with some wax, herb and lemon. The palate is nice, with plenty of minerality and good balance throughout. Perhaps it is in a bit of an awkward spot at the moment as it isn't showing as well as a couple of years ago, I think it should come out the other side showing much better.
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8/5/2017 - danstrings Likes this wine: 93 Points
Gorgeous young Raveneau - very light color, no signs of aging on the color/nose. Very fresh, stone fruit, briny, high toned minerally nose. Ethereally balanced on the palate with loads of fruit balanced by steely spicy minerality.
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8/4/2017 - kakpoo Likes this wine: 92 Points
Tasted blind. Straw in color, asparagus and grass on the nose. Palate was soft (almost creamy) with sweet lemon and a faint bitter vegetal note. The finish was balanced with very soft but persistent acid. I guessed this was a marsanne. Not what I've come to identify as Chablis, but I also don't have much experience with Raveneau.
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3/25/2017 - Ajnate wrote:
Beautiful wine with plenty of time let. crushed shells, high lemon hints, lovely acidity and minerality. good finish that i think will become fuller as time moves on. Delicious.
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3/20/2017 - B Paul wrote: 93 Points
I like this a lot, probably more so than the 2011 MdT I had last year. Paired really well with sole almondine. Approachable now, but will certainly continue to age well.
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1/15/2017 - PC73 Likes this wine: 92 Points
No reason not to really enjoy this bottle. Great sweetness and balance on the palate. Ripe fruits, hint of citrus. Touch of saltiness on the finish. Rich and creamy feel in the mouth. I don't have loads of experience with Ravaneau. Is this usually a more generous cuvée?
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11/30/2016 - Philippe_C wrote: 89 Points
Bery nice nose of flintstones, matchsticks, hint of citrus... taste of yellow apple, a hint of mineral, good but not great
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11/28/2016 - FransS wrote: 93 Points
I'm a lover of the Dauvissat wines and this 1er cru from Raveneau is certainly a very worthy challenger. First impression for me is Puligny, than you notice a higher, but ripe, acidity and that reminded me of the grillo grape (Sicily). This chablis is super refined with a floral/minty undertone.
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7/15/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Blind Chablis Tasting (River Forest, IL): Tasted blind in Chablis flight. Ever-so-slightly reductive aromas, making me think this Raveneau. Ripe fruit still clear on nose, more clear on palate with moderate weight but almost perfect balance. My 3rd favorite wine tonight, the group's #2.
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3/13/2016 - Cote d'Or wrote:
PopnPour, tasted over 2 hrs
-translucent pale light gold grey green
-tidal pool saline
-med acidity, med/med- weight mid-palate with a bit less intensity than usual for this wine, elegant minerality with lemon citrus, stony finish
-very good though not stellar at this point in its evolution, suspect it will pick up some complexity over the next 5 years
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12/13/2015 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 92 Points
Most better than the various premox bottles I had from Raveneau over the last couple of years. With this producer, I would rather err on the side of caution. Great Chablis character even if it clearly hasn't fully evolved yet. Impeccable balance, great texture and beautiful finish. Will wait 2 years for other bottles
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8/26/2015 - phil the agony wrote: 91 Points
Première expérience avec Butteaux ici (Finalement Montée Tonerre que j'ai bu à deux reprises).
Beaucoup de citron,citron confits et un peu de souffre au nez.Légèrement herbacé (estragon).
Minérale à souhait avec une belle aciditée et une belle longueur.Manque un peu de consistance mais très bien quand même.
91 pts
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8/16/2015 - TaKizaki81 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Mineral, slight chlorine like as if at a pool for aromatics. Clementine, yuzu on the palate, good texture
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8/8/2015 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
Straw color. Nose of crushed oyster shell, green apple, lemon, and iodine. Intense flavors of lime oil and ripe pineapple coat the mouth. Creamy, medium body. Medium-high acidity. This wine is rich, layered, and completely inviting. Drink now through 2025.
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7/18/2015 - sehill Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opened and poured, this wine gave an excellent. It gives a similar impression to previously tasted bottle. This bottle benefits from airing and shows it best about an hour after opening suggesting it will continue to benefit from additional bottle age.
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5/18/2015 - llink wrote: 91 Points
Very clean nose, some lemon and broth elements. Surprisingly accessible palate, light with good flavor intensity and a surprising lack of acidity and grip for a young Raveneau. Drinking very well at this young age, with enough complexity to make it interesting.
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4/24/2015 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Rockstars of Burgundy: Mineral driven, saline, slate, graphite and lemon. Really good purity of flavour, very good acidity, very clean and driven. Nice length behind it.
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3/26/2015 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Chablis-athon (Chicago, IL): One of my perennial jokes about this vineyard involves the Sir Mix-A-Lot classic, "I like big Butteaux and I cannot lie." Irreverence aside, this really wasn't a big Butteaux at all. Nice and firm but demure and not showing very much at the moment besides some slight mineral and saline notes. On the other hand, the acidity on this could generate way more electricity than all of Miley's twerking ever will.
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3/19/2015 - EirikM wrote: 92 Points
Pretty, quite delicate and precise, but a bit understated at the moment, also compared to the somewhat more intense MdT of the same vintage. Gives more on the palate than on the nose, at least for the first couple of hours. The balance is impeccable and the finish is long and complex. I'm a believer in an even brighter future.
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3/4/2015 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
March Dinner Offline: Plenty of interest on the nose, incense spice, lemon, smoke and orange. Good persistence and length, very fine and detailed. Approachable already with some lovely fruit, but also has the structure to age and develop really nicely.
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8/11/2014 - rnellans wrote: 91 Points
Lean, dry, minerals. Lacked texture or interest for me. Maybe ok with age. Not now however. 91
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8/9/2014 - BradE wrote:
Favre 3.0 Saturday lunch and misc.: Very tasty and showing well for its age.
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5/22/2014 - walkerjfw wrote: 92 Points
At Ai Fiori in NYC...first wine of what turned out to be a big evening. served as an aperitif
First experience with this wine. Color is light gold. Classic Chablis nose of ocean/oyster, floral notes. Citrus, mineral, lime on the palate. Had an oily texture. Medium finish.
Only a small pour to begin the veining, this is a serious wine that would be best drank with a little time. My guess is it would evolve nicely if given an hour or so to unwind. Has a long arc in front of it, will continue to add complexity with age, IMO.
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2/20/2014 - dcwino wrote: 92 Points
Showing a bit better than the previous bottles. Quite enjoyable.
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2/20/2014 - pakabear wrote: 89 Points
Not your typical Chablis, a bit like a new world Chablis, great acidity and minerality, overall a nice wine but nothing to write home about.
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12/31/2013 - sehill Likes this wine: 91 Points
Decanted and poured, this wine gave an excellent showing. The aromatics show oyster shell, citrus, floral, chalk and slight green apple notes. The color is a vibrant and youthful light yellow. The light to medium bodied palate shows youthful fruit and excellent balance. The wine gives a medium length finish and has enough acidity to keep the wine focused. The wine gave the impression that it should develop and improve with additional bottle age.
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12/30/2013 - dcwino wrote: 91 Points
Pop and pour, so darn tight, not revealing much, lime juice, honey and acid. With air, classic Raveneau, oil, citrus, mineral, saline and flowers. Medium weight, mouth puckering acidity, mineral and good finish. There is a hint of unripe fruit which is not bothersome. Although showing a lot or minerality and acidity, I don’t get the fresh and energetic impression. It is enjoyable now but will improve.
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11/24/2013 - dcwino wrote: 91 Points
Lime like fruit impression, margarita, honey, a hint flowers, mountain stream that I typically get from Raveneau and seashell. There is a hint of green/pyrazine note, not GM impression at this stage. As usual, oily palate impression but the middle palate a bit hollow and the finish is a bit short. The palate also gives margarita like acidity. IMO, the oily/unctuous style of Raveneau makes this 1er crus a step above the Dauvissat’s. No GM but a slight hint of green that comes and goes. Quiet enjoyable but a step below the 10s for me.
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11/22/2013 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
There’s a heady scent of citrus blossom coupled with a coolness, reminiscent of lilies growing around a freshwater stream. Like all of the other Raveneau ‘11’s I’ve had (and most of the ‘10’s for that matter) there is plenty of ripe orchard fruit action. It has plenty of salty/iodine notes below the rambunctious fruit and flora. It really breathes up well in the glass and has a big squeeze of pure lemon juice on the finish.
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11/16/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light yellow. Some sulfur to blow off. Green fruits, brothy, medium weight, fantastic texture and length even at this young age. Not a particularly high acid wine.
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