Wild right from the cork pull with dry candied peach. Blastingly floral, nuanced at the same time. Fresh as a daisy. One of the best starts to a bottle I’ve had in recent memory. This is going to be one for the books. Drink to 2030 at least.
Day 2. Cloudy, apple juice. Tannic leach aromas. Very marmalade flavor and aroma.
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For the first time in a little while. Still quite turbid. After about 2 hours open...
At pop and pour there was a rather abrasive first impression. Not hot, but not to fine. 10-20 minutes in the glass really brought this around, right quick. Showing fruit and such. Now back to 2 hours in, ripe ripe, ripe pear fruit aromas. Candied apple. That's the Cheninality shining through? Verging on apple sauce, but that's just getting presumptuous. Day 2. Big apple and fruity. Quite decadent, yet drinkable. Day 3. Wow. Candied apple aroma. Green apple jolly rancher aroma. I do have a soft spot in my heart for that one. Absolutely wild. On the palate a licorice note, that started to emerge is now more front and center. A little menthol/evergreen. Ripe sweet lime on the palate. Day 7. Aromas are still in the same vicinity as day 3. A heady fruit on the palate. Like the wild in wild strawberry, but apple/raspberry.
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Beautiful warm deep gold. Apricot, vanilla and floral nose. Rich complex palate. Interesting wine. Not sure what to compare it too - unlike any other chenin blanc I have had.
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3/8/2018 - nzinkgraf wrote:
Wild right from the cork pull with dry candied peach. Blastingly floral, nuanced at the same time. Fresh as a daisy. One of the best starts to a bottle I’ve had in recent memory. This is going to be one for the books. Drink to 2030 at least.
Day 2. Cloudy, apple juice. Tannic leach aromas. Very marmalade flavor and aroma.
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7/24/2015 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Oranges and honey, amphora? Great palate texture.
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12/5/2014 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Rye toast with an apricot topped by creme fraiche.
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4/9/2014 - nzinkgraf wrote:
For the first time in a little while. Still quite turbid. After about 2 hours open...
At pop and pour there was a rather abrasive first impression. Not hot, but not to fine. 10-20 minutes in the glass really brought this around, right quick. Showing fruit and such.
Now back to 2 hours in, ripe ripe, ripe pear fruit aromas. Candied apple. That's the Cheninality shining through? Verging on apple sauce, but that's just getting presumptuous.
Day 2. Big apple and fruity. Quite decadent, yet drinkable.
Day 3. Wow. Candied apple aroma. Green apple jolly rancher aroma. I do have a soft spot in my heart for that one. Absolutely wild. On the palate a licorice note, that started to emerge is now more front and center. A little menthol/evergreen. Ripe sweet lime on the palate.
Day 7. Aromas are still in the same vicinity as day 3. A heady fruit on the palate. Like the wild in wild strawberry, but apple/raspberry.
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9/20/2012 - Doblk wrote: 88 Points
Beautiful warm deep gold. Apricot, vanilla and floral nose. Rich complex palate. Interesting wine. Not sure what to compare it too - unlike any other chenin blanc I have had.
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