Deep yellow. Orchard fruit and vanillin. Full, rich, and glycerine with pear fruit, some Chablis oyster shell, and average but adequate acidity. This is better than a bottle last year which was more ripe and tropical, but its overtly woody character is still out of place for me when it comes to Chablis. Remind me never to buy Chablis from Faiveley again.
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Looks like I paid $66 for this way back; it's pretty disappointing to be honest. Not much charm, nothing wrong with it per-se, but just missing any energy or expression.
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Deep yellow. Let's see...some airy seashell once the bottle has been open for a while, but mostly grotesque oak, modest acidity, heavy feel, and ripe pineapple. Why bother making wine from this top Chablis cru if you are going to vinify it this way? It would probably make more financial sense to buy a plot of something in the Mâcon and just have at it.
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12/11/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:
Deep yellow. Orchard fruit and vanillin. Full, rich, and glycerine with pear fruit, some Chablis oyster shell, and average but adequate acidity. This is better than a bottle last year which was more ripe and tropical, but its overtly woody character is still out of place for me when it comes to Chablis. Remind me never to buy Chablis from Faiveley again.
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6/25/2022 - John McCabe wrote: 88 Points
Looks like I paid $66 for this way back; it's pretty disappointing to be honest. Not much charm, nothing wrong with it per-se, but just missing any energy or expression.
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1/28/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:
Deep yellow. Let's see...some airy seashell once the bottle has been open for a while, but mostly grotesque oak, modest acidity, heavy feel, and ripe pineapple. Why bother making wine from this top Chablis cru if you are going to vinify it this way? It would probably make more financial sense to buy a plot of something in the Mâcon and just have at it.
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4/21/2018 - WST Likes this wine:
Drinking very nicely. Big wine with GC fruit, but obligate oyster shells, lemon squirt and acid cut belies the region. I liked this a lot.
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