2002 Jacques Puffeney Arbois Vin Jaune

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91 points

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  4/4/2011 - onewineheaven wrote: 92 Points

  What Mrbuzz said. It's sherry-like but not sherry. Much more complex. My wife was not as enthused as I was and she has a great palate so I have to concede it's not a wine for everyone. We drank it with salmon cakes and aioli, which, believe it or not, were probably too mild. This wine teeters on the edge...of what I'm not sure, but it teeters.

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  3/17/2011 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 90 Points

  My first Vin Jaune.....one word: FASCINATING! It is not a wine to drink all the time, in fact for me, sometimes hard to drink, as it reminds me of spirits(which I don't drink). The first thing you notice is the nose....yep sherry! The nose is AMAZING...I could put it in a snifter, and smell it all night! It plays with your mind...you think it should be 80 proof...but it's only 14%. Waves of nuts, caramel, almond butter, Marsala, Comte' cheese rind, dried apples, citrus. Then you taste it, and for me, it kind of made me grimus. Really funky at first....yeasty, tart skin, band aid, comte' cheese(which we did have with it).....but then it really gains on you. The nuts and caramel, maple syrup, dried apples, tart citrus acidity...really well balanced, and SO overly oxidized, but alive. Again, fascinating wine. The nose is 95pts alone......the palate is really hard for me to score. Not a wine I'd drink everyday, and not a refreshing kind of wine...it's a contemplating, snifter type wine. And I can see why these things last forever. Would love to try one with age. One of the coolest wines I've ever had!

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