(Blind tasting) Full, rich, fat, fully ready nose. Yellow orchard fruit with chemical and tropical notes. Integrated oak. Perhaps a tad too developed. Modelling clay and butterscotch. Fullish, harmonius palate with tropical fruit notes and very refreshing acidity. Creamy, fat, round. Dried apricots. Lovely roasted nut finish. Had survived the Premox-trap, but not for keeping.
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(BYO Blind tasting) Fully ready nose with complexity and depth. Apricots and orchard fruits intermingles with honey. Fully integrated oak. Lovely minerality hiding in the depths. Very, very attractive. Fullish, fat, rich and powerful palate. Harmonius and majestic and intense. Very good grip. Utterly balanced with orchard fruit, honey, roasted nuts and wet stone minerality. What a structure and determination. My third encounter with this wine, and since it had survived the PREMOX trap this was splendid. White burg at its best. Very full and elegant. I actually managed to identify the wine. I will now save my own bottle until 2017-18, if it's premoxed it doesn't help if i pop it today.
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Oxidizing fast. Dark copper colour. Bruised apples, etc. Can tell the underlying material is pretty special, but too far gone already. Am done with Fontaine-Gagnard.
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(Blind tasting) Very mature nose with dried apricots, honey, nuts and glue. Fullish, soft, over-the-hill palate. Dried apricots, nuts and honey. Full, soft and round, but alos flat and without any grip and intensity. A Premoxed white Burg of top-class - such a pity. Not the most horrid of POX, it was drinkable with food. Indications that other F-G 2008 white is also in danger.
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Quite shy, discrete nose. Fine yellow applefruit. Elegantly oaked. And then mineral and mineral (modelling clay). The first attack is tightly minerally with delicate citrus aromas. Balanced oak. But after time in glass this reveals itself as a very tasty, concentrated wine with fullish body, very good length and grip. After a while it is fat in the mouth! Conclusion: FATTY, GROWING, ROASTED. (This was a slow starter, but the concentration and intensity combining with the "shyness" led us towards GC territory.)
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2012 - Wines for my ROM (Au Jardin @ Botanic Garden): Color - Light golden Nose - Good aromatic and intense but not truly expressive. I can tell there is tons of material hiding underneath. Palate - Tightly coiled but well polished. This was elegant and feminine for a Batard instead of power. Excellent purity and energy with layers of complexity. Very long. Some may said this is smaller in scale and not as powerful as a Batard should be. However, I like the style. 93-94+
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Overall a complex nose with multiple aromas. Apple, Citrus, Lime, Oak, Slight sweetness on the nose. Green. Grassy nettles. Apple on the palate. Long finish. Lots of lime and minerality. Felt like a grown up wine.
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9/14/2019 - robertek wrote: 93 Points
No signs of premox in this one which is always a relief. Really good Batard :)
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10/13/2017 - Argrath wrote: 94 Points
(Blind tasting)
Full, rich, fat, fully ready nose. Yellow orchard fruit with chemical and tropical notes. Integrated oak. Perhaps a tad too developed. Modelling clay and butterscotch.
Fullish, harmonius palate with tropical fruit notes and very refreshing acidity. Creamy, fat, round. Dried apricots. Lovely roasted nut finish.
Had survived the Premox-trap, but not for keeping.
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4/2/2017 - joost wrote: 70 Points
totally oxidised
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3/15/2017 - ChristyLeighNY wrote: flawed
Agree with others. Oxidized. Getting sick of the ups and downs with white burgundy
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9/26/2016 - Burgnick wrote: flawed
King of premox- fontaine gagnard
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10/10/2015 - Argrath wrote: 95 Points
(BYO Blind tasting)
Fully ready nose with complexity and depth. Apricots and orchard fruits intermingles with honey. Fully integrated oak. Lovely minerality hiding in the depths. Very, very attractive.
Fullish, fat, rich and powerful palate. Harmonius and majestic and intense. Very good grip. Utterly balanced with orchard fruit, honey, roasted nuts and wet stone minerality. What a structure and determination.
My third encounter with this wine, and since it had survived the PREMOX trap this was splendid. White burg at its best. Very full and elegant. I actually managed to identify the wine. I will now save my own bottle until 2017-18, if it's premoxed it doesn't help if i pop it today.
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6/2/2015 - don_quichotte Does not like this wine: 85 Points
Oxidizing fast. Dark copper colour. Bruised apples, etc. Can tell the underlying material is pretty special, but too far gone already. Am done with Fontaine-Gagnard.
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4/18/2015 - Argrath wrote: flawed
(Blind tasting)
Very mature nose with dried apricots, honey, nuts and glue.
Fullish, soft, over-the-hill palate. Dried apricots, nuts and honey. Full, soft and round, but alos flat and without any grip and intensity.
A Premoxed white Burg of top-class - such a pity. Not the most horrid of POX, it was drinkable with food. Indications that other F-G 2008 white is also in danger.
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8/12/2012 - Argrath wrote: 95 Points
Quite shy, discrete nose. Fine yellow applefruit. Elegantly oaked. And then mineral and mineral (modelling clay).
The first attack is tightly minerally with delicate citrus aromas. Balanced oak. But after time in glass this reveals itself as a very tasty, concentrated wine with fullish body, very good length and grip. After a while it is fat in the mouth!
Conclusion: FATTY, GROWING, ROASTED. (This was a slow starter, but the concentration and intensity combining with the "shyness" led us towards GC territory.)
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5/6/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 93 Points
2012 - Wines for my ROM (Au Jardin @ Botanic Garden): Color - Light golden
Nose - Good aromatic and intense but not truly expressive. I can tell there is tons of material hiding underneath.
Palate - Tightly coiled but well polished. This was elegant and feminine for a Batard instead of power. Excellent purity and energy with layers of complexity. Very long. Some may said this is smaller in scale and not as powerful as a Batard should be. However, I like the style.
93-94+
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9/10/2010 - PC73 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Overall a complex nose with multiple aromas. Apple, Citrus, Lime, Oak, Slight sweetness on the nose. Green. Grassy nettles. Apple on the palate. Long finish. Lots of lime and minerality. Felt like a grown up wine.
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11/12/2009 - MFong wrote:
Confrerie Burgundy Trip – Day 3 (Chassagne-Montrachet /Vosne-Romanee): Deeply perfumed nose of flower and peaches. Richly complex palate of steely minerals, lime and a touch of honey; with high acidity. Very elegant and precise. Gentle finish and very persistent.
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11/12/2009 - MFong wrote:
Confrerie Burgundy Trip – Day 3 (Chassagne-Montrachet /Vosne-Romanee): Delicate nose of first sweet peaches, then minerals, lime and a touch of coconut. Rich palate of minerals, lime and high acidity. Finishes clean, precise and very long.
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