This has intense minerality - chalk and limestone. Acidity is high, and this is definitely a food wine, though there is also a softer element. Paired nicely with skate wing and capers. A great buy at 25 euros and much better than Vacheron's "paradis" I had from the same vintage.
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Year 2 - Super Tasting 5 of 5 - Greg does Loire (Greg's House - Kitchener, ON): Tasted Blind This had a very intriguing nose....smelling of almost flat champagne....salted caramel, lemon, mineral, pear, and then some almost bretty and lambic notes that morphed into a sherrried profile. The palate was really quite pretty....white flowers, grass, salted caramel, lemon, mineral, toffee, biscuit, dough, fresh bread glanced with great acid. Finish is medium an dominate by citrus, minerals and biscuity notes.
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Year 2 - Super Tasting 5 of 5 - Greg does the Loire (Greg's House): (Tasted Blind, Sancere #6) This wine both fascinated and excited us. Perhaps lacking somewhat in typicity, but so wonderfully complex and pleasurable, who cares? The nose is oddly quite like a mature champagne and I totally dig it. Nose of salted toffee, toasted bread, biscuits, brown spice and rich candied citrus notes. The palate has remarkably high, searing acid, even compared to the others in the flight. The finish is perhaps only medium minus in length which is one of the only things holding this wine back.
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Millesime Bio Fair - Day 1 (Montpellier, France): Floral, melon, lemon and smashed brick on the nose. Nervy acid, bright gooseberry and melon rind flavors. Intense minerality here, and I love it, yet it has a lot of depth and some weight on the mouthfeel. Another impressive wine from Vacheron.
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1/26/2015 - henryd1 Likes this wine: 91 Points
This has intense minerality - chalk and limestone. Acidity is high, and this is definitely a food wine, though there is also a softer element. Paired nicely with skate wing and capers. A great buy at 25 euros and much better than Vacheron's "paradis" I had from the same vintage.
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1/17/2015 - Dave Canada wrote: 93 Points
Year 2 - Super Tasting 5 of 5 - Greg does Loire (Greg's House - Kitchener, ON): Tasted Blind
This had a very intriguing nose....smelling of almost flat champagne....salted caramel, lemon, mineral, pear, and then some almost bretty and lambic notes that morphed into a sherrried profile.
The palate was really quite pretty....white flowers, grass, salted caramel, lemon, mineral, toffee, biscuit, dough, fresh bread glanced with great acid.
Finish is medium an dominate by citrus, minerals and biscuity notes.
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1/17/2015 - Wine Canuck wrote: 93 Points
Year 2 - Super Tasting 5 of 5 - Greg does the Loire (Greg's House): (Tasted Blind, Sancere #6) This wine both fascinated and excited us. Perhaps lacking somewhat in typicity, but so wonderfully complex and pleasurable, who cares? The nose is oddly quite like a mature champagne and I totally dig it. Nose of salted toffee, toasted bread, biscuits, brown spice and rich candied citrus notes. The palate has remarkably high, searing acid, even compared to the others in the flight. The finish is perhaps only medium minus in length which is one of the only things holding this wine back.
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1/27/2014 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 Points
Millesime Bio Fair - Day 1 (Montpellier, France): Floral, melon, lemon and smashed brick on the nose. Nervy acid, bright gooseberry and melon rind flavors. Intense minerality here, and I love it, yet it has a lot of depth and some weight on the mouthfeel. Another impressive wine from Vacheron.
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11/18/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
A Cold, Foggy Afternoon in Sancerre-Mellot and Vacheron (Sancerre, France): Also quite rocky like the Romains but fuller bodied and more infused with soil. Another successful cru.
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