Beautiful wine. Consistent with previous note. Cork in pristine condition. No discernible deterioration to the wine since last sampled, it remains a good colour, vivid and alive on nose and palate. Paired well with cold York ham and green beans.
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This pours deep gold in the glass. The nose is reticent showing quince paste, apple sauce, apricot, a touch of honey and light saffron. The palate shows significant sugar feeling like 30+ g/l with medium plus refreshing acid. The finish shows some lightly metallic notes with a lot of apricot which detract here. All in all while intact and enjoyable, to me this didn't deliver on my expectations. I while the acid is high enough to balance the sugar, the sweetness is notable and I can't help feeling I'd prefer a more dry style.
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Wooly and sour, spicy. very floral with pollen and nectar. Palate is Very acidic, spicy, sour - almost beery. Maybe overripe peach and apricot - lots of acid. Nose - 4/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 15/20.
Day 2: Seems somewhat oxidized. Color is deep yellow a bit bronze. Bruised apple, spices, honey, pollen. Palate is similar with huge acid that isn’t well integrated. Oh well. Much better w spicy food
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Bright glowing vitamin whiz yellow. Sweet yellow fruits on the nose with a odd mild smokiness in the background. Notes of honeyed lemon with strong acids and almost as strong minerality. Viscous mouth-feel with the honeyed lemon dominating throughout. The finish lasts forever and features all of the above. Fantastic wine.
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Lite 24k gold color. Soapstone and slightly burnt orange peel (distantly) on the nose. This wine is a perfectly-aged piece of art. Notes of very Mild oxidation, satsuma reduction sauce on the attack, and a bit of pulpy orange juice that lasts through the finish. There is a bittersweet sourness in the finish that I could contemplate for hours. Exquisite.
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My 2nd note for this wine. If there were versatile wine than this is it! It’s full body, high acidity with a little bit of sweetness to smooth the edges. The texture is soft with some sharp edges like eating a slice of quince. The sea shell aromas makes the experience complete. This is a beautiful all around wine. You can pick any vintage and have the same experience with some bottle age.
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After one hour: Bright rose gold with silver flashes. Limpid in the glass. Retains a sweetness but with good acidity that refreshes with sourness. Initially, almost oily texture in the mouth but this thins a little with time. Nose: Creamed caramelised apricots, some savoury notes, faint nuance of sliced mushroom. Subtle flowers, honeysuckle and when rested in the glass for a while undisturbed, a lovely aroma of warming butter and sugar. Palate of roasted sour lemon, herbs. Beautiful. After 24 hours, the wine displayed more of the above but was less expressive in aroma. This wine has the stuffing for further development.
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Aged golden color in all its splendour. Very intense nose, orange marmelade as someone already said, quince syrup, earthy. Keeps evolving in the glass. Very high acidity, medium body, mushroomy, honeyed white fruit. Very savoury and very long. All sweetness is almost gone. Balance, texture and length are exceptional. Really great aged Chenin blanc.
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This is why I cellar and track a wine through its evolution. Really singing today with lanolin and typical aged vouvray characteristics. Much of the Demi level sweetness of youth is gone. I have enjoyed these since bottling and it had been a while since I tried. The last sip has a finish of length and character of a excellet grand cry white burg. Of course this is different but inpact, interest,and pleasure right there. I am glad I have few left which will increasingly have less sugar as the old vouvrays do. Drinking great with no signs of decline.
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Loire based dinner at Fuleen Seafood, Chinatown, NYC w/ Brad Kane and several others. Pale yellow in color and showing a richness well beyond the '95 version of this wine. Oranges dominate the nose and palate. Would like to have this with the wonderful oranges served with the check at the Peking Duck House in NYC. I unfortunately don't have any of this in the cellar but this gives me hope for great things from the '96 Moelleuxs I do have resting. 50+13+13+9+9=94
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A night of stellar wines from Vouvray, Germany and Alsace. (Fuleen Seafood House): It was great to try this again as I haven't had it since release and I stupidly never purchased any as I was more into the sweet wines at the time. It's a little lighter and showing less sugar than the two '95s, but is perhaps more vivid and youthful with the '96 acids keeping things snappy and lively. Precise and focused with more yellow fruits showing, though there is some apricot in the mix with a chunk of honeycomb. With air a strong chalky character emerged. Still extremely youthful, but no harm trying one now. A-.
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Wow, exciting quality here. Intoxicating aromas of distilled spirits and pear. Quite dry, beautiful viscosity without heaviness, long finish buttressed by wholly integrated acidity. Magical.
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(McGuire's Arch Madness) Still youthful pale yellow appearance. Retaining sufficient acidity. Nice bouquet of nuts, flowers and a hint of apricot and pear. Quite a bit drier than it's 98 counterpart, and for my taste, much more enjoyable. I suspect this will drink well for years to come.
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From a half bottle. Medium yellow. Wonderful high-toned aromatics that jump out of the glass. In this format, fairly well resolved, taking on nice nutty notes but still good dry fruit. Actually shows little sweetness at present. Excellent to drink now or hold for more mature Chenin flavors.
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Medium yellow straw color. Initial fragrance is like Condrieu in the sense that it deceives you into expecting some sweetness on the palate; complex mix of floral tones, pear, spice, and an iota of honey. In this demi-sec, the emphasis is most definitely on the "sec" part! Barely off dry, round but light mouth feel with a long finish that smacks of the underlying soil. It is this earthiness rather than acidity that gives the wine structure and length--talk about a sense of place. This gives the amazing impression of sucking on the dirt of the Clos du Bourg, with the fresh Chenin fruit fleshing out this earthy core.
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At Gramercy Tavern W David & Jackie. I had it to accompany dessert. Delicious light sweet wine with excellent acidity and minerality. I can see why they recommend these wines with some age. Looking forward to the mixed case of Huet 02's I bought'
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12/27/2023 - Paulliac Likes this wine: 92 Points
Beautiful wine. Consistent with previous note.
Cork in pristine condition. No discernible deterioration to the wine since last sampled, it remains a good colour, vivid and alive on nose and palate. Paired well with cold York ham and green beans.
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10/14/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 91 Points
This pours deep gold in the glass. The nose is reticent showing quince paste, apple sauce, apricot, a touch of honey and light saffron. The palate shows significant sugar feeling like 30+ g/l with medium plus refreshing acid. The finish shows some lightly metallic notes with a lot of apricot which detract here. All in all while intact and enjoyable, to me this didn't deliver on my expectations. I while the acid is high enough to balance the sugar, the sweetness is notable and I can't help feeling I'd prefer a more dry style.
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3/2/2023 - mmilgate Likes this wine:
at 27 years of ages, shows how a great Chenin can age. Shows what a great Vouvray is capable of offering.
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3/24/2022 - Seth Rosenberg wrote: 90 Points
Wooly and sour, spicy. very floral with pollen and nectar. Palate is Very acidic, spicy, sour - almost beery. Maybe overripe peach and apricot - lots of acid. Nose - 4/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 15/20.
Day 2: Seems somewhat oxidized. Color is deep yellow a bit bronze. Bruised apple, spices, honey, pollen. Palate is similar with huge acid that isn’t well integrated. Oh well. Much better w spicy food
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2/13/2022 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 96 Points
Bright glowing vitamin whiz yellow. Sweet yellow fruits on the nose with a odd mild smokiness in the background. Notes of honeyed lemon with strong acids and almost as strong minerality. Viscous mouth-feel with the honeyed lemon dominating throughout. The finish lasts forever and features all of the above. Fantastic wine.
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12/5/2021 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Served blind. Friend hinted at Chenin Blanc and I got it. Great condition, very in the face, less complex. 92-93
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1/16/2021 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 97 Points
Lite 24k gold color. Soapstone and slightly burnt orange peel (distantly) on the nose. This wine is a perfectly-aged piece of art. Notes of very Mild oxidation, satsuma reduction sauce on the attack, and a bit of pulpy orange juice that lasts through the finish. There is a bittersweet sourness in the finish that I could contemplate for hours. Exquisite.
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6/24/2020 - Chekib m. wrote: 96 Points
My 2nd note for this wine. If there were versatile wine than this is it!
It’s full body, high acidity with a little bit of sweetness to smooth the edges. The texture is soft with some sharp edges like eating a slice of quince. The sea shell aromas makes the experience complete. This is a beautiful all around wine. You can pick any vintage and have the same experience with some bottle age.
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1/1/2020 - Paulliac Likes this wine: 92 Points
After one hour:
Bright rose gold with silver flashes. Limpid in the glass.
Retains a sweetness but with good acidity that refreshes with sourness.
Initially, almost oily texture in the mouth but this thins a little with time.
Nose: Creamed caramelised apricots, some savoury notes, faint nuance of sliced mushroom. Subtle flowers, honeysuckle and when rested in the glass for a while undisturbed, a lovely aroma of warming butter and sugar.
Palate of roasted sour lemon, herbs. Beautiful.
After 24 hours, the wine displayed more of the above but was less expressive in aroma. This wine has the stuffing for further development.
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3/29/2019 - Chekib m. Likes this wine: 95 Points
Aged golden color in all its splendour.
Very intense nose, orange marmelade as someone already said, quince syrup, earthy. Keeps evolving in the glass.
Very high acidity, medium body, mushroomy, honeyed white fruit. Very savoury and very long.
All sweetness is almost gone. Balance, texture and length are exceptional.
Really great aged Chenin blanc.
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6/4/2015 - JeremyQ Likes this wine:
I liked it but was expecting far more. Good but didn't wow.
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1/11/2015 - ski695 Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is why I cellar and track a wine through its evolution. Really singing today with lanolin and typical aged vouvray characteristics. Much of the Demi level sweetness of youth is gone. I have enjoyed these since bottling and it had been a while since I tried. The last sip has a finish of length and character of a excellet grand cry white burg. Of course this is different but inpact, interest,and pleasure right there. I am glad I have few left which will increasingly have less sugar as the old vouvrays do. Drinking great with no signs of decline.
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12/26/2013 - JeffGMorris Likes this wine: 94 Points
Loire based dinner at Fuleen Seafood, Chinatown, NYC w/ Brad Kane and several others. Pale yellow in color and showing a richness well beyond the '95 version of this wine. Oranges dominate the nose and palate. Would like to have this with the wonderful oranges served with the check at the Peking Duck House in NYC. I unfortunately don't have any of this in the cellar but this gives me hope for great things from the '96 Moelleuxs I do have resting. 50+13+13+9+9=94
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5/10/2013 - BradKNYC wrote:
A night of stellar wines from Vouvray, Germany and Alsace. (Fuleen Seafood House): It was great to try this again as I haven't had it since release and I stupidly never purchased any as I was more into the sweet wines at the time. It's a little lighter and showing less sugar than the two '95s, but is perhaps more vivid and youthful with the '96 acids keeping things snappy and lively. Precise and focused with more yellow fruits showing, though there is some apricot in the mix with a chunk of honeycomb. With air a strong chalky character emerged. Still extremely youthful, but no harm trying one now. A-.
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7/21/2010 - drwine2001 wrote:
Wow, exciting quality here. Intoxicating aromas of distilled spirits and pear. Quite dry, beautiful viscosity without heaviness, long finish buttressed by wholly integrated acidity. Magical.
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3/5/2010 - Bone Likes this wine: 91 Points
(McGuire's Arch Madness) Still youthful pale yellow appearance. Retaining sufficient acidity. Nice bouquet of nuts, flowers and a hint of apricot and pear. Quite a bit drier than it's 98 counterpart, and for my taste, much more enjoyable. I suspect this will drink well for years to come.
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10/28/2007 - drwine2001 wrote:
From a half bottle. Medium yellow. Wonderful high-toned aromatics that jump out of the glass. In this format, fairly well resolved, taking on nice nutty notes but still good dry fruit. Actually shows little sweetness at present. Excellent to drink now or hold for more mature Chenin flavors.
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6/15/2007 - drwine2001 wrote:
Medium yellow straw color. Initial fragrance is like Condrieu in the sense that it deceives you into expecting some sweetness on the palate; complex mix of floral tones, pear, spice, and an iota of honey. In this demi-sec, the emphasis is most definitely on the "sec" part! Barely off dry, round but light mouth feel with a long finish that smacks of the underlying soil. It is this earthiness rather than acidity that gives the wine structure and length--talk about a sense of place. This gives the amazing impression of sucking on the dirt of the Clos du Bourg, with the fresh Chenin fruit fleshing out this earthy core.
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4/29/2007 - markellen.foodies@gmail.com wrote: 92 Points
At Gramercy Tavern W David & Jackie. I had it to accompany dessert. Delicious light sweet wine with excellent acidity and minerality. I can see why they recommend these wines with some age. Looking forward to the mixed case of Huet 02's I bought'
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