1999 de Ladoucette Sancerre Grande Cuvée Comte Lafond

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  5/22/2012 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points

  Yellow guavas and sweet morning grass and some nettles. This came across as sb to me but a straddle between the extreme nz style and the didier chard heavy style with seaspray.

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  5/9/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 87 Points

  2012 - Hi, Jonathan! (Paradise Pavilion @ MBFC): This is really enjoyable and a surprise for the quality. The wine is definitely benefited from 12yrs of bottle aging. It displays lovely complexity of roasted nut, yeast, slightly oxidize and iron note yet remained fresh core of citrus lemon. There is additional layer of herbs, white flower and mineral at the background too. Medium bodied, touch of honey intermixed with grassiness, quite bold on the mid palate but turning crispier toward the finished with rich lemon honey, nut as well as mineral. Lovely juiciness yet it is quite dried with mineral tailing at the medium length finished. I like this quite a bit.

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  5/9/2012 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points

  Jonathan visits Singapore (Pavilion Paradise, MBFC): I enjoyed this quite a bit. It had an ultra-minerally nose, with lots of chalk and seashelly inflections, a touch of grassiness, some white pear notes. Nice. I really liked the palate too. While very dry, with a stern backbone full of dry extract, there were also layered flavours of white fruit, pear and melon. In fact the was very rich, a bit beeswaxy, almost oily in texture, which made me think it was a Muscadet Sur Lie rather than a Sauvignon Blanc. The rich texture was lanced through on the midpalate with a wonderful chalky, seashelly minerality leading into really bright, zippy finish though, which helped to make the wine a lovely foil for our food though. A bit quirky, but certainly an enjoyable wine.

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