Bottle was not necessarily flawed but this was totally oxidized and gone. Raised cork that had been soaked through leads me to believe this may have been heat damaged at some point.
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Still remarkably fresh and substantially lighter in color than the 2009 tasted next to it, loaded with mineral and lemon with a touch of lanolin, I much prefer the older less oxidative Joly wines.
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Initially, the flavours are super intense, smoky, mineral, metallic and saline. But after 1-2 hours of aeration, the flavours start to harmonise, and what a great dry Chenin Blanc!
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Nicolas Joly Coulee de Serrant 1962 - 1995: Day 1 - poured through Coravin: The most honeyed of them all. There's also vegeteble soup in the aromatics. Harmonic, fruity taste, quite juicy on the palate. Smoky
Day 2 - the bottle is opened: Honeyed character remains, lovely sweetness. Acidity is medium.
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Main family seasonal dinner (only day to get all together including our two 2017 vintage grandsons - our first grandchildren). 2 bottles: an amalgam of my earlier notes. Wondrous pectic vitality running through the exotic pineapple-led fruits and green herb; lashed with citrus zest. Maintains the steely mineral core that brings all the elements together in sharp focus. A truly great wine of its type - sadly only one bottle left to savour. Shows no sign of coming off its peak. Till 2026 at least.
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63rd birthday dinner at home with the girls. Good straw colour, no hint of oxidation. As superb as ever. Minerals, viscosity, citrus zest (pronounced in the aroma) and green herb accompanying the clean grapefruit and ripe green ?quince fruit primary flavours. Core acidity keeps this nectar as fresh as the day it was bottled. Full bodied flavour but bone dry. Powerful enough and with the weight to accompany our rolled pork belly and apricots roast to perfection. 3 to go and oodles of time left to enjoy them (but I fear not the patience). Till, at the very least, 2026.
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Xmas day dinner. Whilst still drinkable, had a hint of oxidisation and had gone relatively flabby compared with 94pt bottles from this case I have noted before. Unfair to mark, but still 88pts even in this condition.
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Remains exactly as per my September '14 note. Simply superb with oodles of time ahead of it. Must be good till 2026 at least - but I fear lack of self control will ensure that I will have drunk my way through this case up well before then!
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Easter Day dinner with all the family. 2 bottles opened an hour before consumption. Remains impressive as per my earlier notes. Seem to be getting through my case too quickly for a wine that must be good for at least another 5-10+ years with this structure - but hard to resist!
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Sensational! Thanks to CellarTracker members whose notes persuaded me to bid for this venerable wine. 60 minute decant. Light green/gold colour. Catty nose of citrus oil - pectic edge. In the mouth immense concentration in a medium weight frame - sour dried apricot, crisp apples, citrus zest and spine of intense minerality and steely acidity. Bone dry. Length 30 minutes+. Drinking beautifully now: being uber quality Chenin may well be drinking just as well in 5-10 years time. For richer food. 11 to go! 94+
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Light gold. Seriously mineral. Smells like wet earth and tasted like really good tasting rocks. Light honeyed flavors, but bone dry. This wine is the definition of the "mineral". Joly wines can be really awful, but this was the other end of the spectrum. One of the best white wines I have had in a long time and utterly unlike anything else. This still has a long life ahead. You should drink it with rich food.
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Medium yellow. At first showed a whiff of oxidation, but then this disappeared. Indescribable, unique Savennieres aromatics. Fantastic acidity, glycerine feel and amazingly fresh citrus fruit. As one taster said, fun, funky and a wine you could smell all day. Both bottles of this in the last year have been brilliant. Ah, Joly. When they are good, they are really good. However, when they are not...
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Light tulip. Fresh aromas of bitter lemon. Medium weight and viscosity. Astoundingly youthful with great acidity. Only with several hours in the decanter did it express any of the funk and soil of Savennieres, but it never showed an oxidative side. A head shaker at age 25, especially when so many of the younger Joly wines are so sherried. Marvelous.
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Bottle, fill and cork all excellent. This is still a vibrant yellow color with very little gold like a much younger wine. The profile is more subdued than other vintages of this wine with no whisky, spirits or cider smells. There is a some varnish, nuts and a whiff of the wild Loire, but no oxidation. Light-bodied, very dry and a little short. I am going to check back on this over the next few days. Not a particularly compelling start, but let's see what some air time will do.
Night 2 - still fresh, but lacking depth and interest. No oxidation and not much change really. Flat finish especially as it warms up. I don't think that this vintage has the weight of others I have tried and I doubt if this bottle will blossom. I will check back tomorrow.
Persistent, but then eventually bitter, this never became interesting over the next few nights.
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Just Another Lousy Day in Paradise (Yountville, CA): Unusual bottle shape that Joly discontinued using a year or two after this vintage. Medium yellow, no deeper in hue than recent samples of this wine from the 90s and even the early 2000s. Typical profile of chamomile, lanolin, wool, wax, apple, quince, honey, and the red schist of this monopole. Floral, herbal, and contained by strong but smooth and integrated acids. Remarkably fresh and youthful, barely oxidized; less mature than a 1985 sampled last year at Eleven Madison Park, at the cost of the 85's greater richness, depth and complexity. This is comparatively dry, cool, and a little aloof, but shows fine balance and should continue to develop positively, if glacially.
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Giacosa Lunch: Big, floral, almost sweet seeming nose - some said Riesling-esque. Stunningly dry, structured and intense palate. I like this, but not for everyone. A friend who likes quite austere white wine said 'it has everything except charm', which is probably fair enough. The kind of wine that is giving you an exam, but sometimes that can be interesting...
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A very interesting wine that I really enjoyed. Last glass two days later showed a touch of TCA that was not at all evident earlier...never had that happen.
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11/10/2022 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 94 Points
Complex with super high acidity. Very cool wine.
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2/27/2022 - Kemo Sabe wrote:
Bottle was not necessarily flawed but this was totally oxidized and gone. Raised cork that had been soaked through leads me to believe this may have been heat damaged at some point.
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6/9/2020 - LoireFan wrote: 91 Points
Same as 2015 TN.
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12/9/2019 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Intense, high acid. Finally a great one.
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8/16/2019 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still remarkably fresh and substantially lighter in color than the 2009 tasted next to it, loaded with mineral and lemon with a touch of lanolin, I much prefer the older less oxidative Joly wines.
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5/4/2019 - vinhslee wrote: 96 Points
Initially, the flavours are super intense, smoky, mineral, metallic and saline. But after 1-2 hours of aeration, the flavours start to harmonise, and what a great dry Chenin Blanc!
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11/9/2018 - Livonietisr Likes this wine: 93 Points
High acidity, minerals, full body, long finish. Complex.
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10/30/2018 - AV2012 wrote: 90 Points
Nicolas Joly Coulee de Serrant 1962 - 1995: Day 1 - poured through Coravin:
The most honeyed of them all. There's also vegeteble soup in the aromatics. Harmonic, fruity taste, quite juicy on the palate. Smoky
Day 2 - the bottle is opened:
Honeyed character remains, lovely sweetness. Acidity is medium.
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12/23/2017 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 94 Points
Main family seasonal dinner (only day to get all together including our two 2017 vintage grandsons - our first grandchildren).
2 bottles: an amalgam of my earlier notes. Wondrous pectic vitality running through the exotic pineapple-led fruits and green herb; lashed with citrus zest. Maintains the steely mineral core that brings all the elements together in sharp focus. A truly great wine of its type - sadly only one bottle left to savour.
Shows no sign of coming off its peak. Till 2026 at least.
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4/21/2017 - LWI wrote: 88 Points
A bit fresher, but less interesting than the -85
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4/13/2017 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 94 Points
63rd birthday dinner at home with the girls.
Good straw colour, no hint of oxidation. As superb as ever. Minerals, viscosity, citrus zest (pronounced in the aroma) and green herb accompanying the clean grapefruit and ripe green ?quince fruit primary flavours. Core acidity keeps this nectar as fresh as the day it was bottled. Full bodied flavour but bone dry. Powerful enough and with the weight to accompany our rolled pork belly and apricots roast to perfection.
3 to go and oodles of time left to enjoy them (but I fear not the patience). Till, at the very least, 2026.
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12/25/2015 - NickBurwood wrote: flawed
Xmas day dinner.
Whilst still drinkable, had a hint of oxidisation and had gone relatively flabby compared with 94pt bottles from this case I have noted before.
Unfair to mark, but still 88pts even in this condition.
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10/12/2015 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 94 Points
Remains exactly as per my September '14 note. Simply superb with oodles of time ahead of it.
Must be good till 2026 at least - but I fear lack of self control will ensure that I will have drunk my way through this case up well before then!
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8/26/2015 - LoireFan wrote: 91 Points
Good, but nothing special. Seems ageless, though.
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4/5/2015 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 94 Points
Easter Day dinner with all the family. 2 bottles opened an hour before consumption.
Remains impressive as per my earlier notes. Seem to be getting through my case too quickly for a wine that must be good for at least another 5-10+ years with this structure - but hard to resist!
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12/31/2014 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 94 Points
New Years Eve dinner.
Two bottles that matched my original note. Impressive accompaniment for a starter of continental charcuterie.
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11/28/2014 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 94 Points
Perfection as per my last note.
Incredible value for this quality.
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9/22/2014 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 94 Points
Sensational! Thanks to CellarTracker members whose notes persuaded me to bid for this venerable wine.
60 minute decant. Light green/gold colour. Catty nose of citrus oil - pectic edge. In the mouth immense concentration in a medium weight frame - sour dried apricot, crisp apples, citrus zest and spine of intense minerality and steely acidity.
Bone dry. Length 30 minutes+.
Drinking beautifully now: being uber quality Chenin may well be drinking just as well in 5-10 years time. For richer food. 11 to go! 94+
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8/24/2014 - acidqueen wrote: 98 Points
Light gold. Seriously mineral. Smells like wet earth and tasted like really good tasting rocks. Light honeyed flavors, but bone dry. This wine is the definition of the "mineral". Joly wines can be really awful, but this was the other end of the spectrum. One of the best white wines I have had in a long time and utterly unlike anything else. This still has a long life ahead. You should drink it with rich food.
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3/11/2014 - humagne wrote: 95 Points
Very fresh, needs air. Improves in the opened bottle. Rich and savoury, with lots of freshness and minerality in the finish. Excellent.
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8/11/2012 - drwine2001 wrote:
Medium yellow. At first showed a whiff of oxidation, but then this disappeared. Indescribable, unique Savennieres aromatics. Fantastic acidity, glycerine feel and amazingly fresh citrus fruit. As one taster said, fun, funky and a wine you could smell all day. Both bottles of this in the last year have been brilliant. Ah, Joly. When they are good, they are really good. However, when they are not...
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11/21/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light tulip. Fresh aromas of bitter lemon. Medium weight and viscosity. Astoundingly youthful with great acidity. Only with several hours in the decanter did it express any of the funk and soil of Savennieres, but it never showed an oxidative side. A head shaker at age 25, especially when so many of the younger Joly wines are so sherried. Marvelous.
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8/31/2011 - vindictive wrote:
Bottle, fill and cork all excellent. This is still a vibrant yellow color with very little gold like a much younger wine. The profile is more subdued than other vintages of this wine with no whisky, spirits or cider smells. There is a some varnish, nuts and a whiff of the wild Loire, but no oxidation. Light-bodied, very dry and a little short. I am going to check back on this over the next few days. Not a particularly compelling start, but let's see what some air time will do.
Night 2 - still fresh, but lacking depth and interest. No oxidation and not much change really. Flat finish especially as it warms up. I don't think that this vintage has the weight of others I have tried and I doubt if this bottle will blossom. I will check back tomorrow.
Persistent, but then eventually bitter, this never became interesting over the next few nights.
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4/2/2011 - darvid wrote:
Just Another Lousy Day in Paradise (Yountville, CA): Unusual bottle shape that Joly discontinued using a year or two after this vintage. Medium yellow, no deeper in hue than recent samples of this wine from the 90s and even the early 2000s. Typical profile of chamomile, lanolin, wool, wax, apple, quince, honey, and the red schist of this monopole. Floral, herbal, and contained by strong but smooth and integrated acids. Remarkably fresh and youthful, barely oxidized; less mature than a 1985 sampled last year at Eleven Madison Park, at the cost of the 85's greater richness, depth and complexity. This is comparatively dry, cool, and a little aloof, but shows fine balance and should continue to develop positively, if glacially.
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6/14/2010 - abh wrote:
Giacosa Lunch: Big, floral, almost sweet seeming nose - some said Riesling-esque. Stunningly dry, structured and intense palate. I like this, but not for everyone. A friend who likes quite austere white wine said 'it has everything except charm', which is probably fair enough. The kind of wine that is giving you an exam, but sometimes that can be interesting...
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4/4/2009 - Zweder wrote: 92 Points
Full bodied, minerals, good acidity, pleasant bitterness and a long finish. A complex and beautiful wine.
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11/8/2006 - Zweder wrote:
No specific notes and that is a pity. Was too busy enjoying the food. This is a very special wine. Certainly close to 90 or even 90+
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3/20/2006 - LoireFan wrote: 93 Points
A very interesting wine that I really enjoyed. Last glass two days later showed a touch of TCA that was not at all evident earlier...never had that happen.
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