1997 Domaine Rolet Arbois Cuvée de Chagnon

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  12/11/2010 - bluemarble wrote:

  This poulsard-based wine (50+ percent, with the rest split between trousseau and pinot noir) is aging beautifully, as Jura wines tend to. Hunting around for tasting notes, I found MW's saying that it was past its prime in 2002. Uh, no.
  
  It is a light wine, think northern Burgundy (Fixin), but the fruit has held beautifully, and it now has the timeless quality of light but complex wines that have finished their adolesence, but show no sign of decline. Color is a rich red, just a touch of fawn but not particularly around the edges — in other words, may have been close to the original color. I tasted it blind, and could not narrow its age to anything more certain than "5 - 20." I am not a MW, but still...
  
  Nose is exciting: sublte, complex, shifts from fruit to forest notes over time. Taste follows the same pattern, if there is a flaw it is in a too-high acidity. But this married well with a chef's / mushroom salad. Wine was finished on Day 2 with a cheese course (a Jura compté): had lost a bit, but not much.

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