Another excellent bottle of this wine. Started light yellow and deepened to a light gold after time in the decanter but there is no sign of prem-ox at all. Reserved at first but opens up with air to show stone and salty profile with grapefruit and quinine. After two hours in the glass some white florals and faint passion fruit show. This is not a soft wine at all. I think a few years will give it more time to relax. Great now with food.
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Similar notes from this past June. Started bright light yellow and got more golden (not dark) with air, this has rapier acidity combined with classic Chablis stone, salt and citrus. A bit of white flower showed up at the end but very faint. I will hold my last couple bottles for longer. This one is going to get better for at least a couple years.
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Medium yellow. Searingly, stunningly Chablis. Fresh lemon, salt, jasmine. Cuts like a knife through the soft shell crab in butter. After too many tired bottles of 2008 La Forest this Vaillons was was a return to form. Wonderful.
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Takes a while to open up , then shows a light tide pool sea spray nose, lovely medium intensity, beautiful salinity and complexity; more tide pool comes out on the palate, along with wonderfully complex savory/umami minerality. An amalgamation of everything beach: sand, sea, and sun. Minerality, saline, perfectly ripe fruit. Just fabulous, with years ahead of it.
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Another great bottle of this. Great energy and balance. All is in place. Will hum along for years I suspect but really think this is ideal moment to drink. Perfect with lobster.
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WTDS at Tilia (Tilia, Mpls): Medium gold color. Just a small taste. Got to the party late and everyone had pretty much passed on this. It wasn't dead, really more dull and lackluster. The minerality is there, the fruit is not, certainly somewhat advanced, but based on notes, it may be what it is at this point. No score.
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Poured 2 hours after opening. Deep yellow. A combination of white flowers, broth, and honey on the nose. Gorgeous texture with medium to full body. Faint citrus but mostly the plant and stone of Chablis with strong underlying acidity. Fully mature in contrast to how it tasted 2 years ago. Outstanding.
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Great nose that has a flicker of reduction, flint, struck match etc., over the more classic mineral and citrus. A super fresh and floral showing that in my opinion outperformed the '08 Raveneau Montée de Tonnerre in the next glass. This had better tension and acid whereas the Raveneau had a little too much weight, comparatively. Really impressed with this.
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Great bottle of this. Really starting to blossom. Beautiful iodine, saline, seashells nose/palate. Lovely underripe yellow fruits on finish. Beautiful with sea urchin.
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Citrus and apple, iodine and seashells, stony and salty, good tension and very long. Drinking well with long years ahead. Textbook Chablis of a classic year. By the way: the color is greenish yellow, not evolved at all.
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From 75cl, good cork pasty-soft at wine end, but seemingly effective. Surprisingly golden and rich for a 1er Cru, I might have guessed a fully mature GC blind. Fine ripe lemon. I think some recent CT TNs overdo the ocean/sea/saline references, but sure, this is evidently a good, concentrated Chablis which has seen old oak. Personally, I wish I had consumed this bottle (like much of my 2008 Chablis collection) in its youth: although this particular bottle wasn't obviously faulty it felt a bit golden-oldie, even tired. But the bottle variation in this vintage is, of course, huge. 90P(?)
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This was initially quite closed; I actually had to decant it for 20 minutes and pour it back into the bottle before it started to open; but once it did it was pure essence of Chablis! Lemon peel, iodine, sea breeze, crushed stone, and a hint of floral notes. The palate was beautifully balanced with excellent concentration. A really lovely bottle that seemed essentially in its peak window to me.
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(C.) Il n'y a pas que Forest ou les Clos chez Dauvissat! Quelle belle bouteille ce Vaillons à maturité; à l'aromatique ténue d'un Chablis, il allie la rondeur puissante du millésime, la minéralité saline et caillouteuse du cru, et pour ma part, une acidité ciselée somptueuse qui venait titiller la langue en finale, une très belle acidité toute en précision, salivante et tenace, très noble, très terroir, très "précise". Floral, végétal (fraicheur de la fougère, chèvrefeuille), beurre frais, citronné, il est plus en nuances que flamboyant, et s'exprime plus en bouche avec un beau tactile rond et tendu. Et cette acidité qui revient... 92-93
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A Few Days in Seattle; 7/19/2019-7/21/2019: Medium yellow. Hay and herb aromas. Oh man, this is all limestone and acidity-Chablis as it was meant to be! Medium weight but gloriously lean and crisp.
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UWS; A mixed set of wines (@ JB): In the bouquet limestone minerals, green apples and citrus. On the palate the same impressions, marzipan, good acidity and a firm amount of bitterness. Beautiful and complex wine.
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11 years development makes this wine ripe and complex. Melon, mealy yellow apples, hay, toffee and flint minerals. Butter like on the palate and slightly oily in the texture. Good balance but of course more acidity is alway welcome.
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Strong sea spray nose, lovely medium intensity, lighter weight but excellent depth, minerality and saline dance across the palate, excellent balance, still very young; later in the evening there is beautiful medium depth, a little less tight, more open, great salinity and acidity, light minerality, tremendous intensity and length, beautiful sea spray and ocean notes. Fabulous Chablis.
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Ripe apple, minerals, and saline notes on the nose. High acidity with lime, green apples, and a hint of mint on the palate. Nice finish. Needed quite a bit of air. 92+
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The wine looks yellow gold colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like lemon. It tastes like stoniness. The body is medium. The wine has polished texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity. Drinking now and will finish up the rest of my bottles this spring.
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No notes taken as this was tasted at dinner party. By memory this was fantastic, medium gold in color Little fruit left but wonderful minerality - like licking a wet rock Structure of this wine was phenomenal - mouth coating and lengthy finish
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Ready to rumble. A short decant and the big mineral and beewax show started. All you re looking in a mature chablis. Body, little fruit and a lot of stones !!! Long finish. Great wine
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tasted over 2 hrs -med gold -ripe apple stone slight oxidation -high acidity on middle weight frame loaded with dry extract that coats the palate through to the long finish bathed in saline minerality and faint ripe apple, no overt oxidation on the palate -this is brilliant right now in the perfect place where the acidity is keeping this fresh despite its development of mature elements, very Dauvissat in that the rocky citrus profile of its youth yields to ripe apple as it matures, no hurry but doubt this will get better
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PopnPour tasted over 2 hrs in sub-optimal stems paired with boiled lobster. -translucent brilliant light gold -moderately expressive citrus minerality baked apple and barest hint of mature earthy element -med+ acidity carries structure through to the finish carrying along with it intensely lemon mineral saline and faint green apple, finishes long -brilliant wine full of verve and starting to pick up some complexity of early maturity, characteristic intensity of the vintage and structure of the producer
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PopnPour, tasted over 2 hrs -translucent light/med gold -citrus stony sea breeze -med/med+ acidity, med- weight but oh so intense, primary fruit has settled down to leave a citrus sappy residue a touch of spice and loads of minerality carry through the long finish, picking up a bit of a green apple component and the slightest hint of oxidation that gives it some depth and complexity, opens up after 1 hour of air -quintessential power without weight, this bottle is really hitting it out of the park now, in a perfect place but should have several more excellent years
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pale yellow; oyster shell, sea spray, iris, all muted but pokes out as wine warms; med weight; assertively tangy & citrus peel, sour orange & bitter lemon, sea shell minerals, so wound up and electric, long & decisive. not nearly there.
04/24/14 getting closer, or else the food, or the atmospheric pressure, or... acid - fruit balance really is food-friendly tonight; slicing when necessary & gliding the rest of the way. good, still young. (91)
8/09/14 decanted one hour. pale gold; aeration pulls the crushed shell & rocks out on the nose, especially saline aromatics, peach nectar behind; med body; lime curd, quinine, seashells, chalky, acids, meyer lemon zest, long, youthful (91)
4/01/15 no decant, but quite open aromatically from the start, lots of chalky mineral, citrus peel, salt spray; med body; more plush than last, lime marmalade, quinine, oyster shell, lovely tight acids, long & clean (91)
Very closed and tight. Too young to assess but there seems to be plenty of stuffing to allow this to evolve nicely with time. Good acid backbone and steely minerality. Medium finish. This must be decanted. Big mistake not decanting.
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Chablis-Mostly Michel and Dauvissat (Vin Vino, Palo Alto): Orange peel with some green elements. Impressive volume and texture, glyceral feel, deep fruit, lots of punch with a rising mineral/stone finish. Some appropriate end austerity. Terrific Premier Cru.
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Pale gold in the glass. Very delicate and stoney on the nose with sweet underlying fruit and complicating notes of chalk, preserved lemons, pungent flowers, and almonds. There is absolutely wonderful elegance on the nose, just exuding sweet mineral and floral aromatics. The palate opens with a supple mouthfeel that leads into steely supporting acidity. The fruit offers tremendous citrus, melon, and spice flavors buttressed by slate like essence along with grain and nutty complexity towards the long finish. I really like the tension and structure present because of how well those components match with the crystalline flavors and textures. To be sure this is acidic and dry but the density of fruit is apparent and delivers balance even at such an embryonic stage.
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VVW tasting bar. Richest nose of the 5 Dauvissat 2008's. Shows a nice mineral edge buffered by some sea brine notes and cat pee. Fatter (relatively) palate with a nice balance between the prominent acidity and the tightly wound fruit. Long and juicy finish.
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2/24/2024 - acidqueen wrote: 94 Points
Another excellent bottle of this wine. Started light yellow and deepened to a light gold after time in the decanter but there is no sign of prem-ox at all. Reserved at first but opens up with air to show stone and salty profile with grapefruit and quinine. After two hours in the glass some white florals and faint passion fruit show. This is not a soft wine at all. I think a few years will give it more time to relax. Great now with food.
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9/25/2023 - acidqueen wrote: 94 Points
Similar notes from this past June. Started bright light yellow and got more golden (not dark) with air, this has rapier acidity combined with classic Chablis stone, salt and citrus. A bit of white flower showed up at the end but very faint. I will hold my last couple bottles for longer. This one is going to get better for at least a couple years.
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6/29/2023 - acidqueen wrote: 94 Points
Medium yellow. Searingly, stunningly Chablis. Fresh lemon, salt, jasmine. Cuts like a knife through the soft shell crab in butter. After too many tired bottles of 2008 La Forest this Vaillons was was a return to form. Wonderful.
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5/14/2023 - jhngo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fresh lemony curdy. A little hollow on palate not fleshy.
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4/29/2023 - MJReb wrote: 93 Points
Iodine, lemon, dense, mouth coating and long. A perfect bottle!
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2/9/2023 - alanr wrote: 96 Points
Takes a while to open up , then shows a light tide pool sea spray nose, lovely medium intensity, beautiful salinity and complexity; more tide pool comes out on the palate, along with wonderfully complex savory/umami minerality. An amalgamation of everything beach: sand, sea, and sun. Minerality, saline, perfectly ripe fruit. Just fabulous, with years ahead of it.
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12/24/2022 - MJReb wrote: flawed
Slightly oxidized, nevertheless drinking well.
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9/2/2022 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Another great bottle of this. Great energy and balance. All is in place. Will hum along for years I suspect but really think this is ideal moment to drink. Perfect with lobster.
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2/9/2022 - rocknroller wrote:
WTDS at Tilia (Tilia, Mpls): Medium gold color. Just a small taste. Got to the party late and everyone had pretty much passed on this. It wasn't dead, really more dull and lackluster. The minerality is there, the fruit is not, certainly somewhat advanced, but based on notes, it may be what it is at this point. No score.
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5/5/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:
Poured 2 hours after opening. Deep yellow. A combination of white flowers, broth, and honey on the nose. Gorgeous texture with medium to full body. Faint citrus but mostly the plant and stone of Chablis with strong underlying acidity. Fully mature in contrast to how it tasted 2 years ago. Outstanding.
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3/18/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Great nose that has a flicker of reduction, flint, struck match etc., over the more classic mineral and citrus. A super fresh and floral showing that in my opinion outperformed the '08 Raveneau Montée de Tonnerre in the next glass. This had better tension and acid whereas the Raveneau had a little too much weight, comparatively. Really impressed with this.
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1/1/2021 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Great bottle of this. Really starting to blossom. Beautiful iodine, saline, seashells nose/palate. Lovely underripe yellow fruits on finish. Beautiful with sea urchin.
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12/24/2020 - MJReb wrote: 93 Points
Citrus and apple, iodine and seashells, stony and salty, good tension and very long. Drinking well with long years ahead. Textbook Chablis of a classic year.
By the way: the color is greenish yellow, not evolved at all.
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8/18/2020 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
Enjoyable expression of place, grape. Seemed to be at its best after 90 minutes open. A delight. Drink in the next several years. recommended
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5/24/2020 - honest bob wrote: 90 Points
From 75cl, good cork pasty-soft at wine end, but seemingly effective. Surprisingly golden and rich for a 1er Cru, I might have guessed a fully mature GC blind. Fine ripe lemon. I think some recent CT TNs overdo the ocean/sea/saline references, but sure, this is evidently a good, concentrated Chablis which has seen old oak. Personally, I wish I had consumed this bottle (like much of my 2008 Chablis collection) in its youth: although this particular bottle wasn't obviously faulty it felt a bit golden-oldie, even tired. But the bottle variation in this vintage is, of course, huge. 90P(?)
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12/26/2019 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:
This was initially quite closed; I actually had to decant it for 20 minutes and pour it back into the bottle before it started to open; but once it did it was pure essence of Chablis! Lemon peel, iodine, sea breeze, crushed stone, and a hint of floral notes. The palate was beautifully balanced with excellent concentration. A really lovely bottle that seemed essentially in its peak window to me.
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11/1/2019 - Raage Likes this wine: 92 Points
(C.)
Il n'y a pas que Forest ou les Clos chez Dauvissat! Quelle belle bouteille ce Vaillons à maturité; à l'aromatique ténue d'un Chablis, il allie la rondeur puissante du millésime, la minéralité saline et caillouteuse du cru, et pour ma part, une acidité ciselée somptueuse qui venait titiller la langue en finale, une très belle acidité toute en précision, salivante et tenace, très noble, très terroir, très "précise". Floral, végétal (fraicheur de la fougère, chèvrefeuille), beurre frais, citronné, il est plus en nuances que flamboyant, et s'exprime plus en bouche avec un beau tactile rond et tendu. Et cette acidité qui revient...
92-93
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7/19/2019 - drwine2001 wrote:
A Few Days in Seattle; 7/19/2019-7/21/2019: Medium yellow. Hay and herb aromas. Oh man, this is all limestone and acidity-Chablis as it was meant to be! Medium weight but gloriously lean and crisp.
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6/21/2019 - Zweder wrote: 92 Points
UWS; A mixed set of wines (@ JB): In the bouquet limestone minerals, green apples and citrus. On the palate the same impressions, marzipan, good acidity and a firm amount of bitterness. Beautiful and complex wine.
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4/28/2019 - Bobhelge wrote: 91 Points
11 years development makes this wine ripe and complex. Melon, mealy yellow apples, hay, toffee and flint minerals. Butter like on the palate and slightly oily in the texture. Good balance but of course more acidity is alway welcome.
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4/23/2019 - alanr wrote: 94 Points
Strong sea spray nose, lovely medium intensity, lighter weight but excellent depth, minerality and saline dance across the palate, excellent balance, still very young; later in the evening there is beautiful medium depth, a little less tight, more open, great salinity and acidity, light minerality, tremendous intensity and length, beautiful sea spray and ocean notes. Fabulous Chablis.
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4/19/2019 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 92 Points
Ripe apple, minerals, and saline notes on the nose. High acidity with lime, green apples, and a hint of mint on the palate. Nice finish. Needed quite a bit of air. 92+
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4/1/2019 - RusisWine wrote: 92 Points
The wine looks yellow gold colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like lemon. It tastes like stoniness. The body is medium. The wine has polished texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity. Drinking now and will finish up the rest of my bottles this spring.
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1/19/2019 - dsamuel Likes this wine: 92 Points
No notes taken as this was tasted at dinner party.
By memory this was fantastic, medium gold in color
Little fruit left but wonderful minerality - like licking a wet rock
Structure of this wine was phenomenal - mouth coating and lengthy finish
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12/9/2018 - Frank Schneider wrote: 94 Points
Ready to rumble. A short decant and the big mineral and beewax show started. All you re looking in a mature chablis. Body, little fruit and a lot of stones !!! Long finish. Great wine
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7/24/2018 - godx wrote: flawed
Advanced. Followed it over 2+ days but it never came into proper form.
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3/1/2018 - MJReb wrote: 93 Points
Apple, lemon, oystershell, salty and stony, slightly honeyed, enormous bottle, all Dauvissat bottles of 2008 are very good. Same remark on his 2007.
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6/7/2017 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
tasted over 2 hrs
-med gold
-ripe apple stone slight oxidation
-high acidity on middle weight frame loaded with dry extract that coats the palate through to the long finish bathed in saline minerality and faint ripe apple, no overt oxidation on the palate
-this is brilliant right now in the perfect place where the acidity is keeping this fresh despite its development of mature elements, very Dauvissat in that the rocky citrus profile of its youth yields to ripe apple as it matures, no hurry but doubt this will get better
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10/31/2016 - Nick4378 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Simply stunning right now. Medium acid, Medium body. Beautiful citrus & green apple. Shows good balance & structure.
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7/26/2016 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
PopnPour tasted over 2 hrs in sub-optimal stems paired with boiled lobster.
-translucent brilliant light gold
-moderately expressive citrus minerality baked apple and barest hint of mature earthy element
-med+ acidity carries structure through to the finish carrying along with it intensely lemon mineral saline and faint green apple, finishes long
-brilliant wine full of verve and starting to pick up some complexity of early maturity, characteristic intensity of the vintage and structure of the producer
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4/10/2016 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
PopnPour, tasted over 2 hrs
-translucent light/med gold
-citrus stony sea breeze
-med/med+ acidity, med- weight but oh so intense, primary fruit has settled down to leave a citrus sappy residue a touch of spice and loads of minerality carry through the long finish, picking up a bit of a green apple component and the slightest hint of oxidation that gives it some depth and complexity, opens up after 1 hour of air
-quintessential power without weight, this bottle is really hitting it out of the park now, in a perfect place but should have several more excellent years
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4/2/2016 - dulcamara wrote: 93 Points
Addition to my previous review: drinking very well now
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4/2/2016 - dulcamara wrote:
- Yellow gold color and aromas of lemon and has flavours of fig and dusty.
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9/24/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
La Paulée Meets Chicago - Dinner (Blackbird - Chicago IL): Apple with peach and lemon peel hints. Lighter styled with moderate depth. Still slightly tight.
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6/1/2015 - LW31 wrote: 91 Points
Structured and tense, but opening to classic notes of iodine, shells, and lemons. Bitter finish. I would give this more time, but already impressive.
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9/20/2013 - pigdaddy wrote: 90 Points
pale yellow; oyster shell, sea spray, iris, all muted but pokes out as wine warms; med weight; assertively tangy & citrus peel, sour orange & bitter lemon, sea shell minerals, so wound up and electric, long & decisive. not nearly there.
seared black sea bass w/lemon & vermouth butter; baby butter bean succotash w/bacon, thyme & sungolds
04/24/14 getting closer, or else the food, or the atmospheric pressure, or... acid - fruit balance really is food-friendly tonight; slicing when necessary & gliding the rest of the way. good, still young. (91)
nc bluefish in mustard-horseradish crust, pickled ramp remoulade; rapini slow -cooked w/pancetta, garlic, vidalia onion
8/09/14 decanted one hour. pale gold; aeration pulls the crushed shell & rocks out on the nose, especially saline aromatics, peach nectar behind; med body; lime curd, quinine, seashells, chalky, acids, meyer lemon zest, long, youthful (91)
thai shrimp cakes w/sweet chile sauce & sriracha - fish sauce aioli
4/01/15 no decant, but quite open aromatically from the start, lots of chalky mineral, citrus peel, salt spray; med body; more plush than last, lime marmalade, quinine, oyster shell, lovely tight acids, long & clean (91)
grilled nc triggerfish w/lemon & evoo; wilted spinach w/roasted baby turnips & radishes, chive ranch dressing
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4/28/2012 - ginfizz wrote: 91 Points
just beginning with papaya and guava hints in the nose and palate, delicious!
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10/28/2011 - ginfizz wrote: 90 Points
Closed down hard. Nice enough nose, but empty palate. Age 5 years?
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5/13/2011 - Porchino wrote: 89 Points
a decent white much better than terner sancerre
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5/10/2011 - Traxx wrote:
Closed, not much interesting going on at the moment.
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9/19/2010 - sfqwino wrote:
Very closed and tight. Too young to assess but there seems to be plenty of stuffing to allow this to evolve nicely with time. Good acid backbone and steely minerality. Medium finish. This must be decanted. Big mistake not decanting.
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7/24/2010 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Chablis, Melville Clonal Blending and The Round 3 Let 'Er Rip (My House In The South OC): Lemon and grapefruit, with what seemed early on to be a pile of river rock being the dominant note. The decant time was maybe an hour in bottle, too. The minerality/rockiness I liked very much.
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7/17/2010 - drwine2001 wrote:
Chablis-Mostly Michel and Dauvissat (Vin Vino, Palo Alto): Orange peel with some green elements. Impressive volume and texture, glyceral feel, deep fruit, lots of punch with a rising mineral/stone finish. Some appropriate end austerity. Terrific Premier Cru.
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6/6/2010 - Badfish wrote: 93 Points
Pale gold in the glass. Very delicate and stoney on the nose with sweet underlying fruit and complicating notes of chalk, preserved lemons, pungent flowers, and almonds. There is absolutely wonderful elegance on the nose, just exuding sweet mineral and floral aromatics. The palate opens with a supple mouthfeel that leads into steely supporting acidity. The fruit offers tremendous citrus, melon, and spice flavors buttressed by slate like essence along with grain and nutty complexity towards the long finish. I really like the tension and structure present because of how well those components match with the crystalline flavors and textures. To be sure this is acidic and dry but the density of fruit is apparent and delivers balance even at such an embryonic stage.
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5/6/2010 - llink wrote:
VVW tasting bar. Richest nose of the 5 Dauvissat 2008's. Shows a nice mineral edge buffered by some sea brine notes and cat pee. Fatter (relatively) palate with a nice balance between the prominent acidity and the tightly wound fruit. Long and juicy finish.
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