Sauternes Chinese Banquet Dinner: Half bottle. Light color. Honied, pineapple nose. Lovely medium weight and only moderate sweetness. Average acidity and slightly harsh finish but overall nice balance.
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All Sauternes, All Night (R & G Lounge, SF): A nice warm up to the night. A bit of green-herb-vanilla characteristic of American oak, but obviously doesn't see any of that. Fresh squeezed orange, a little marmalade, lighter botrytis spice, a bit of menthol that I've never had in Sauternes before. Lighter-medium bodied; fine boned. Doesn't quite have the wow of some of the later wines.
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All-sauternes dinner; 12/2/2023-12/3/2023 (R&G Lounge, San Francisco): From 375mL. Aromatic, honeyed white flowers, slight mint and herbal; balanced, sweet but balanced, elegant, white flowers; finish is medium to medium-plus. I like this more than my previous bottle from 2020. 90 Day 3: Still nicely balanced with more tropical fruit, pineapple. Lovely sauternes, but definitely an unfair comparison with the other wines we had on the table.
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12/25/2023 - Coastalnative Likes this wine: 92 Points
Lovely this time and getting better.
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12/3/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:
Sauternes Chinese Banquet Dinner: Half bottle. Light color. Honied, pineapple nose. Lovely medium weight and only moderate sweetness. Average acidity and slightly harsh finish but overall nice balance.
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12/3/2023 - ohne_musik wrote: 91 Points
All Sauternes, All Night (R & G Lounge, SF): A nice warm up to the night. A bit of green-herb-vanilla characteristic of American oak, but obviously doesn't see any of that. Fresh squeezed orange, a little marmalade, lighter botrytis spice, a bit of menthol that I've never had in Sauternes before. Lighter-medium bodied; fine boned. Doesn't quite have the wow of some of the later wines.
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12/3/2023 - aagrawal wrote: 90 Points
All-sauternes dinner; 12/2/2023-12/3/2023 (R&G Lounge, San Francisco): From 375mL. Aromatic, honeyed white flowers, slight mint and herbal; balanced, sweet but balanced, elegant, white flowers; finish is medium to medium-plus. I like this more than my previous bottle from 2020. 90
Day 3: Still nicely balanced with more tropical fruit, pineapple. Lovely sauternes, but definitely an unfair comparison with the other wines we had on the table.
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10/22/2023 - gout wrote: 92 Points
Quite delicious in every way
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