2012 Coudert Fleurie Cuvée Christal

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 88 points

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  6/16/2014 - indiscriminate palate wrote:

  Tart red fruit, sage, on a medium frame; an almost crunchy body feel; well-structured with a medium finish of tart red fruit and some minerals. Still seems fairly simple, both at open and after a couple of days, and has that artificially-fruity component that I'm getting in the 2012 Coudert wines.

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  11/8/2013 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Mixed nose of bright cherry and raspberry fruit, along with some stony minerality, and then a quite vegetal green pepper thing that is a little overbearing. The palate is similar, with decent mouthfeel and balance in the attack and middle - light red fruit, some stones, a salty minerality. But as the palate develops we begin to see a serious hollow character - some flavor and body are clearly missing. The finish is short, vegetal, light and bitter - it's a problem. Disappointing. Nose - 4.5/6, Palate - 4/6, Finish - 3/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 0.5/2 = 12/20.
  
  UPDATE 10/10 3am:
  So it looks like I was wrong about this - it has blossomed in the bottle (put the cork back in - not in the fridge) about 32 hours later. The nose is really gorgeous now with crystalline red strawberry and raspberry fruit, rock candy, pine, herbs and forest floor. It's pretty intoxicating - with a musty-jammy-sweetness that's hard to describe. Some stones and minerality, along with a nice red-brown spice component. It's opened up on the palate as well and has knitted itself together. The wine is light bodied, but the flavors are very strong - with a red fruit sucrosity that is hard to beat. It's given lift by the minerals, stones and spice - it's somewhat puckery with crisp red fruit acid to go along with the jammy sweetness. The acid shows up as citrus notes in the wings of the mouth, and there is a bit of the herbal component that adds to the complexity and the creaminess that comes out. The finish follows right from the palate - a little more tart, focusing on cherry, sour cherry, stones and minerals. The finish is pretty, not particularly long. Overall, this is a damn delicious bottle of wine - in a sensual way one of the most enjoyable I've had in a while. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 4/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 16/20.

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  11/6/2013 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 84 Points

  Bright medium ruby. Ripe, tart cranberry, with strawberry and raspberry, and herbal (sage) and earthy notes. Low tannin, medium-plus acid, and a pleasant tartness. This improved with several hours of air, though remained a fairly simple, angular wine of earthy, sage-y tart berry. Good.

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  8/2/2013 - indiscriminate palate wrote:

  My first taste of the 2012s left less than a stellar impression, showing a simple wine with little complexity. I hope this is a sign of youth, though fear it is the vintage.

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