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2018 Wasenhaus Spätburgunder Kanzel
5/13/2024 - acidfreak wrote: 83 Points
Drank with VAS19 but he's more generous than I am. This was refreshing in the way that a glass of tap water is refreshing, and about as complex.
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2014 Domaine Pattes Loup Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons
2/26/2023 - acidfreak wrote: 93 Points
Basically drinks like liquid rock. On day one it’s textbook cold-vintage Chablis with chalk on chalk, beautiful but unyielding. I dig it, and will take this over overt reduction or oxidation any day, but it’s not for everyone. On day two there’s some honeydew, apricot, lemon and white flowers breaking through. Stunning, very complete, loads of acid, this is my plutonic ideal of Chablis. I’ve been hating on Chardonnay lately but this is 😚🤌🏽🫡🤙🏽🤤
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2018 Domaine Labet Chardonnay Les Varrons
8/11/2022 - acidfreak Does not like this wine: 81 Points
I'm beginning to think there's a 'race to the reduction' when it comes to still chardonnay. Everything I've read lately is all gung ho about 'matchstick reduction' or something comparable. At some point there's got to be a limit. This wine exemplifies that. On day one it's kind of cool because it's a veneer over the monstrous 14.5% abv. But hard to really glean any fruit. Day 2 with a decant still impenetrable. Day 3 there's finally shed in the reduction, allowing some meyer lemon, kumquat, quince and licorice to show, but by then the alcohol has also come to the forefront, and there's not enough acidity (a la Maison Valette, whose Chardonnays are also this ripe) to ease the onslaught. I'm still a fan of Labet's ethereal reds, but this is my strike 3 on the secondary value of the whites.
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