2011 Claude Riffault Sancerre Les Desmalets

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  4/19/2015 - Exered68 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Didn't taste too much of this due to wine o'clock mother who rather too quickly correctly identified it as Sancerre and then guzzled even more in self-satisfaction.
  
  Much as remembered from previous two summers though lacking in zest this time. And overpowered by greasy chicken thighs. Why do cookery writers love these so much in their midweek suppers? Breast is best every time.

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  11/10/2013 - Exered68 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Working my way back to this babe. A decade of laser lime, lemon and grassy Kiwi sauvignon blancs, now I settle on this fuzzy-edged Sancerre as my go to and back again white.
  
  Not subdued but different and certainly less aggressive than its roided-up distant New World cousins. One to swill in the mouth, too, from chilled. Stray hints of candle wax and butter left on a garden table.

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  4/20/2013 - Exered68 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  At last a subtle Sauvignon Blanc.
  
  Chilled for two hours and served with salmon, sauté potatoes and asparagus, this was a slow, cool pour of refreshing peach, lime, mint and a smidge of ginger with an underlying minerality.
  
  Its very under-powered drama was a relief. A little energy, a little sweetness, a little perfume as the nose approached but nothing which felt engineered or intrusive. And no wooden stakes slicing through either.

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  1/4/2013 - ekallio wrote:

  I think this is a touch less tight and wound up than the Denisottes bottling I tasted a few weeks back. Aromatically this is quite similar with rather pungent SB aromatics - as such not my favorite, but a high quality Sancerre nevertheless with good balance and a concentrated mouthfeel.

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