2005 Domaine William Fèvre Chablis Grand Cru Bougros Côte Bouguerots

Community Tasting Notes (67) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  7/28/2023 - drjb Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This 'lost cellar' wine opened well with an evolved mostly gold colour and a lovely nose of lemon, white nectarine, green apples, boiled sweets and hay. The palate was well structured with that touch of richness but still with plenty of grip and minerality providing length and character. There were finishing touches of honey and caramel consistent with maturity but overall this had plenty of Chablis freshness.

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  7/14/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points

  Burgundy Dinner with Friends (S.K.Y. Restaurant - Chicago IL): Lots of ripe apple and pear, still wonderfully fresh for its age, especially from this challenging vintage. Very good Grand Cru density with a bright lift on its long finish.

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  11/5/2021 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points

  Siggy Turns "Fitty": The Big 5-0 Blowout! (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Small taste. Steel and limestone, vigorous, brilliant acidity, bold apple and citrus with stone fruit underpinnings and floral notes. Great bottle, still incredibly youthful tonight. Thanks Brad.

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  7/2/2021 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Appearance: medium gold.
  Nose: medium plus intensity; aromas of honey, pastry, dry fig, sour dough, dry apricot, lanolin, mineral, lemon custard, creamy. It’s fully developed.
  Palate: dry, high acidity, medium alcohol, medium body, medium plus flavour intensity, a little saline come through. The finish is long.
  Overall, it’s a very good wine. Drink now! Past its peak.
  This bottle has past its peak. Whilst the flavour is still intense with lingering length, there’s barely any fresh fruit. The tertiary notes are dominant here. It’s interesting to see the difference in the stage of development because the 2004 Valmur I had a few months ago was still fresh, lively and mouthwatering. Thought 05 should be a long runner but certainly not for this bottle.

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  10/7/2020 - rcg62 Likes this wine:

  **** This is fabulous, everything Chablis should be. (But seriously, buyer beware. I think I had a case; last three totally oxidized....I only opened this one on a lark! And the other pre-mox bottles were bad five years ago.) Great light hay color. Nose has stone, and light flower, butter and lime zest. Big full bodied palate, bigger than what I think of in Chablis. But really good balance of big fruit with lingering acidity. Really superb. Wish I could drink this again. (But how do you weigh that against most bottles being crap?)
  This bottle was a 95, easy.

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