Dinner at Tiny Pine Bistro (Carbondale, CO): This ranks up there with 2001 Yquem as one of the best dessert wines (still readily available on the market, I might add -- as there are plenty of small German bottlings that aren't) made in the last 40 years. This is basically what high-botrytis chenin should be. Textbook in every way, and just ridiculously stunning in its quality. Despite the maturity, this feels like it has decades still to go -- a result, obviously, of its being chock full of preserving acidity and residual sugar. A kaleidoscopic palate that never feels heavy for a second, though the concentration and complexity makes a little go a long way.
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Finally a great bottle of this, wafting if not rocketing from the glass with a complete, complex nose, filling the room with clover honey, acacia, mirabelle, almond, and cooked mushroom. What texture this shows in the mouth with acidity to match and aromas of youth balanced by those of maturity. Fabulous with cheese, and a fabulous example of why ever cellar should have some representation of the Loire.
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A Ledbury Dinner: Deep bronzed amber, almost a hint of copper. Marmalade and butterscotch nose. Similar on the palate, more rich than sweet and balanced by still significant acidity. Little change from a bottle twelve years ago. ***1/2
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(Huet Vouvray "Cuvee Constance") I was very excited to try this. It was closed, awkward and weird. There was nice botrytis development as the nose was praline, dusty spicey earth, marmalade and almonds. The palate was kind of blah-zay with not much going on and turned in on itself. Nice wine for sure with a killer finish and good acidity and freshness but give this 50 years and check back. Full bottle too. Maybe would be a touch more developed in a 1/2 bottle.
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4/20/2024 - acyso wrote: 98 Points
Dinner at Tiny Pine Bistro (Carbondale, CO): This ranks up there with 2001 Yquem as one of the best dessert wines (still readily available on the market, I might add -- as there are plenty of small German bottlings that aren't) made in the last 40 years. This is basically what high-botrytis chenin should be. Textbook in every way, and just ridiculously stunning in its quality. Despite the maturity, this feels like it has decades still to go -- a result, obviously, of its being chock full of preserving acidity and residual sugar. A kaleidoscopic palate that never feels heavy for a second, though the concentration and complexity makes a little go a long way.
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1/13/2024 - englishman's claret wrote: 96 Points
Finally a great bottle of this, wafting if not rocketing from the glass with a complete, complex nose, filling the room with clover honey, acacia, mirabelle, almond, and cooked mushroom. What texture this shows in the mouth with acidity to match and aromas of youth balanced by those of maturity. Fabulous with cheese, and a fabulous example of why ever cellar should have some representation of the Loire.
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12/2/2023 - ekessler wrote: flawed
corked
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9/9/2023 - SimonG wrote: 90 Points
A Ledbury Dinner: Deep bronzed amber, almost a hint of copper. Marmalade and butterscotch nose. Similar on the palate, more rich than sweet and balanced by still significant acidity. Little change from a bottle twelve years ago. ***1/2
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7/29/2023 - englishman's claret wrote:
A disappointingly simple bottle, ex winebid
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