2010 Denis et Didier Berthollier Vin de Savoie Chignin-Bergeron Un Cru Une Exception

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 86.7 points

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  9/22/2013 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:

  Smells like honey and golden apples, with hints of spice, flowers, and river rocks - the aroma has a heady heaviness to it, but also a cutting freshness. On the palate - medium-full oily body, just barely off dry, with a strong stone fruit flavor - spicy apricot, peach, golden apples, and golden raisins, excellent acidity, with some clean stony minerality in the dry finish along with lingering stone fruit. A big, almost fat wine, but balanced (saved) by the high acidity.
  
  Day 2: Doing well - an interesting herbal note very much like shiso has developed, the minerality has transitioned from rocks to oyster shells, and the fruit has become a bit more demure. On the big and perfumed side but manages to be quite enjoyable thanks to the powerful acidity, and even better on day 2 with the extra complexity.

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  10/24/2012 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 89 Points

  Blind Tasting - Rhone Varieties (Weygandt Wines - Washington, D.C.): Tasted blind. Light gold color with medium legs. Aromas of clover honey, candied nuts, yellow apple and apricot. The aromas are really complex. The palate is packed with plush fruit and balanced with superb acid. Flavors of green pear, lemon and apricot, hints of minerality. Long finish. Guess: 2008 Condrieu. Turns out to be a roussanne from the lesser-known region of Savoie. I'm not sure I've ever had a Savoie roussanne, but I was quite impressed with this effort.

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  9/10/2012 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 86 Points

  Smells like red apples and flowers (even my 8 year old asked if I was drinking apple juice!) but on the palate it's a bit heavy AND tart, with ultimately too much residual sugar that seems to work its way past the acids eventually and not enough minerality to lift it above a common station. Not bad just a bit simple and uninspired, and I suspect those "exceptional" Berthollier brothers are stuck with a vineyard that is probably a bit too easy to grow fruit in, hence it's lack of character.....

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  4/1/2012 - sebastienjm wrote: 85 Points

  100% Roussanne. Nez bien mûr sur les fruits jaunes, l'équilibre général du vin est clairement axé sur la fraîcheur en comparaison avec les vins du Rhône, c'est globalement assez simple, fruité avec une finale citronnée. Acheté une dizaine d'euros/caviste.
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