2002 Foreau Domaine du Clos Naudin Vouvray Demi-Sec

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  4/16/2023 - eboracum Likes this wine: 93 Points

  My previous bottle was opened as long ago as 2014 but, in the intervening 9 years, it seems to have changed very little and I can use much of the same description. The nose was expressive with notes of white fruit including pineapple, quince, apples and pears, wax, almonds and minerals. The palate was medium bodied, linear and long, perfectly balanced and focused with mouth-watering acidity offsetting a discreetly sweet round undertow with a gentle crescendo to a firm and long finish with all the aromatic elements in seamless harmony. Beautiful though it was, the bottle aroused a bit less emotion in me than the previous, as can be seen from my edits, and that could be due to some loss of vibrancy from the extra age without a big improvement in complexity. Or was it just mood? Still excellent.

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  2/18/2023 - bhouk wrote:

  I don’t think about wine only in the context of the food I drink it with, but it’s an important factor in my evaluations. This wine was stupid good with tonight’s meal of bay scallops baked in a mix of bread crumbs, garlic and Pernod, especially for the modest cost. I think I paid about $25 and it drank tonight like a much more expensive wine. All balance and harmony; just a shade off-dry. Wool and wax, honey and minerals. Although I have enjoyed vintages back to, I think, 1993, I somehow don’t have anything more recent than 2005 in the cellar. A missed opportunity it seems.

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  6/10/2020 - bhouk wrote:

  Honeyed minerals, slight herbal tinge, and shot through with razor-sharp acidity. A great bottle showing no sign of decline. Should drink well for years if this bottle is any indication. And a swell match with seared scallops on rice, sweet corn and diced bacon.

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  8/26/2017 - bhouk wrote:

  The cork crumbled and the wine had to be strained for consumption. Color is very honeyed topaz. Nose is baked apples and just slightly oxidative. Mostly clean on the palate, with apples and white raisins, there is plenty of ripeness, but also plenty of acidity to keep its structure taut. I am drinking a glass (or a glass and half) tonight without food but will be interested to try the remainder of the bottle tomorrow or Monday with complex asian flavors. I think it will marry well. This provides both pleasure and interest.

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  10/24/2016 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 92 Points

  Browns suck, wines don't (Let's Try French Wines this time) (Our home): Starting to show just some age. It is 14 years from vintage. A bit deeper gold in color. The nose at first has some glue notes, but they blow off. Pop and pour and drank over 6 hours. The nose has slight apple notes (oxidation?) but also some lovely ginger notes. After a couple of hours, the wine cleaned itself up and offered some burnt pineapple notes and lots of minerality. Very nice texture. It seemed pretty dry at this point, not as sweet as in its youth. A nice complexity but I might have hoped for a bit more. All in all, a very good showing if not mind blowing. Glad I drank some young and saved a few. I doubt it goes south soon, but certainly worth drinking now.

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