This latest shipping/back label omits the name of the vineyard. EYE: illuminated bronze. NOSE: burgundian of exceeding delicacy. Apple/pear, salted green fig. Tumbled stone. Cream pith (see: lees). Ambient hazelnut, cardamom, cucumber, mace, and seasoned wood. MOUTH: a curvaceous, transparent medium for savory, hushed articulations. Bitter salt mine. Almond branch. Cured, brittle, green musk. Launching over this gravity is a careless perfume of yielding apple blossom. Steely acidity. A breezy pace. The flavors wash with precision, leaving a translucent stain of mineral. This is fruit in a lithic matrix, rather than juice infused with rocks. Fit to drink through 2030.
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This has cut, with lemon/citrus, wet limestone minerality, plus pear and other white orchard fruit. Slightly more dense and viscous than some Muscadet, but still fresh as a daisy at a dozen years. Impressive, especially for a $23 wine.
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Tasted over 6 hours. Very different compared to 4 years ago. Today's bottle is quiet. Towards the 6th hour, it displays some of that volume I encountered previously, but the power that bottle possessed is likely dormant in this one (90+?).
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Decanted. Now 3h after decant. Never really opened up. Almost no aromas with the barest hint of tart apples and some minerals. Palate is more expressive w a mix of tart and ripe apples, Meyer lemon, minerals, lanolin, some herbs and the barest hint of honey and caramel. Nice finish of tart apples, herbs and some grapefruit pith. Medium+ body w a mild waxy mouthfeel and nice acids. More weight and less electric acids than Pepiere but also more weight. I suspect that I caught this at an awkward adolescent phase that's still shut down. Shows some mild aged notes w the honey/caramel flavors. Will try to wait another 5-10 yrs before opening next bottle.
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4/3/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points
This latest shipping/back label omits the name of the vineyard. EYE: illuminated bronze. NOSE: burgundian of exceeding delicacy. Apple/pear, salted green fig. Tumbled stone. Cream pith (see: lees). Ambient hazelnut, cardamom, cucumber, mace, and seasoned wood. MOUTH: a curvaceous, transparent medium for savory, hushed articulations. Bitter salt mine. Almond branch. Cured, brittle, green musk. Launching over this gravity is a careless perfume of yielding apple blossom. Steely acidity. A breezy pace. The flavors wash with precision, leaving a translucent stain of mineral. This is fruit in a lithic matrix, rather than juice infused with rocks. Fit to drink through 2030.
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3/14/2022 - WST Likes this wine:
This has cut, with lemon/citrus, wet limestone minerality, plus pear and other white orchard fruit. Slightly more dense and viscous than some Muscadet, but still fresh as a daisy at a dozen years. Impressive, especially for a $23 wine.
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3/15/2021 - olalar wrote: 91 Points
Beautiful complexity. Still young with melons and pears.
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8/11/2020 - MarkLA wrote: 90 Points
Tasted over 6 hours. Very different compared to 4 years ago. Today's bottle is quiet. Towards the 6th hour, it displays some of that volume I encountered previously, but the power that bottle possessed is likely dormant in this one (90+?).
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3/30/2020 - James Kim Likes this wine: 90 Points
Decanted. Now 3h after decant. Never really opened up. Almost no aromas with the barest hint of tart apples and some minerals. Palate is more expressive w a mix of tart and ripe apples, Meyer lemon, minerals, lanolin, some herbs and the barest hint of honey and caramel. Nice finish of tart apples, herbs and some grapefruit pith. Medium+ body w a mild waxy mouthfeel and nice acids. More weight and less electric acids than Pepiere but also more weight. I suspect that I caught this at an awkward adolescent phase that's still shut down. Shows some mild aged notes w the honey/caramel flavors. Will try to wait another 5-10 yrs before opening next bottle.
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