2003 François Raveneau Chablis Grand Cru Blanchot

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  11/5/2021 - llink wrote: 93 Points

  Popped and poured. Spectacular nose, iodine, lemon and sea brine. Lively palate for the vintage with decent acidity and a lemon rind lift on the finish. This seems to be gaining complexity as it ages, and not falling apart like one might expect from a hot year Chablis.

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  11/21/2020 - pbaek wrote:

  Absolutely stunning, this is still tightly knit and shows few signs of age and at the same time displays great depth and complexity. A nose of crushed stones, salt and citrus. Very expressive on the palate with notes of stone fruits, lime juice, sea salt and stones. It’s an incredible wine, there is no 2003 warmth here.

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  7/8/2020 - french16 wrote:

  Warm nose with oyster shell and smoked wood.
  A little bit of bruised fruit.
  Soft, low acid. Shows the vintage. Not much fruit but no tertiary notes either. It’s just kind of flat.
  It lacks energy and complexity. Short finish.
  Disappointing.

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  4/11/2020 - FYC wrote:

  Beautiful light yellow color and pristine cork and fill. A pleasant surprise given the vintage. Tasted and smelled like a Leflaive Pucelles from a vintage like 95 or 97...and I mean that as a compliment! A touch of sulfur on the nose. A rich and broad palate mist likely due to the vineyard and vintage. But also a bit of elegance which is why it reminds me of Leflaive Pucelles from the golden years (or pre-golden years if you will) of Leflaive. Lacks that bit of acid and mineral from a great year but very pleasurable with lobster tonight.

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  1/19/2019 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  Tasted over 1 hr
  -translucent med gold
  -muted lemon stone
  -med/med- acidity, med/med- weight, elegant soft regal slate focused linear bitter almost quinine, minimal fruit but no traditional tertiary elements either
  -no overt oxidation or exotic fruit but not classic Chablis either, faded but not evolved, a bit disjointed and frankly a bit disappointing, suspect this is a vintage effect though no prior experience with Raveneau's Blanchot to compare

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