Now it's magnum tuesday! Had the 2010 of this for magnum monday last month...the 12 is expressing a ton more...golden yellow orchard fruits...more correct tasting than the 10 which reminded of Riesling...the 12 needs some time to open...then wonderful chalky crushed limestone, dried honey, green apple skin tartness, classic salty sea air...lot more richness and density in this vintage...showing more extract, yet with "pop"...but still not like the 14 which is Michael Jackson POP! This 12 is chuggin along...strutin it's stuff...drinking a riper vintage Chablis, yet totally classic! Love the bottle!
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Drank our second bottle of this with grilled sea bass with vanilla butter, accompanied by broccoli in chili flakes. The wine felt somewhat inbetween a sauvignon and a chardonnay, so for a Chablis rather tart/astringent. This worked well with the dish as the fish needs a sauvignin whereas the butter calles for chardonnay.
However, we drank a Fèvre chablis (Bougros grand cru) just a few days before and were longing for that wine...
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Drank this with a recipe from Blumenthal: salmon with liquorice, grapefruit, vanilla mayonnaise and asparagus. The dish is kind of outspoken (but extremely good, and easyish for a Blumenthal). The wine complemented it nicely; it has depth but does not cry to be on the foreground; the chardonnay goes well with the liquorice. Given the diversity of tastes, we did not really drink the wine stand-alone.
We had some wine left and preserved it to drink a day later, this time with a Moroccan style couscous with lots of vegetables, raisins, and some minced meat. This was an ok combination (my girlfriend liked it), but in my opinion the wine was a bit too friendly to go up against the spices in the dish.
We drank chateau Grenouille from the same cooperative a while back, and for a dish with a straightforward taste, or to drink alone, I may prefer that one. This wine very nice folded itself very nicely around the diverse and outspoken tastes of the Blumenthal dish, so I would serve it again with something similarly outspoken.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
5/16/2023 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 93 Points
Now it's magnum tuesday! Had the 2010 of this for magnum monday last month...the 12 is expressing a ton more...golden yellow orchard fruits...more correct tasting than the 10 which reminded of Riesling...the 12 needs some time to open...then wonderful chalky crushed limestone, dried honey, green apple skin tartness, classic salty sea air...lot more richness and density in this vintage...showing more extract, yet with "pop"...but still not like the 14 which is Michael Jackson POP! This 12 is chuggin along...strutin it's stuff...drinking a riper vintage Chablis, yet totally classic! Love the bottle!
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
5/7/2019 - Patrick_from_champagne Likes this wine: 92 Points
Expressive floral nose
Little yellow fruit, mineral, fresh
Structured and with medium to full body
Straight and suple
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/4/2019 - jjwleiden wrote:
Drank our second bottle of this with grilled sea bass with vanilla butter, accompanied by broccoli in chili flakes. The wine felt somewhat inbetween a sauvignon and a chardonnay, so for a Chablis rather tart/astringent. This worked well with the dish as the fish needs a sauvignin whereas the butter calles for chardonnay.
However, we drank a Fèvre chablis (Bougros grand cru) just a few days before and were longing for that wine...
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/10/2018 - jjwleiden wrote:
Drank this with a recipe from Blumenthal: salmon with liquorice, grapefruit, vanilla mayonnaise and asparagus. The dish is kind of outspoken (but extremely good, and easyish for a Blumenthal). The wine complemented it nicely; it has depth but does not cry to be on the foreground; the chardonnay goes well with the liquorice. Given the diversity of tastes, we did not really drink the wine stand-alone.
We had some wine left and preserved it to drink a day later, this time with a Moroccan style couscous with lots of vegetables, raisins, and some minced meat. This was an ok combination (my girlfriend liked it), but in my opinion the wine was a bit too friendly to go up against the spices in the dish.
We drank chateau Grenouille from the same cooperative a while back, and for a dish with a straightforward taste, or to drink alone, I may prefer that one. This wine very nice folded itself very nicely around the diverse and outspoken tastes of the Blumenthal dish, so I would serve it again with something similarly outspoken.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
7/18/2016 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
At the winery: Chalky minerals, very cut, excellent terroir but prefer the '14 Fourchaume.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment