2012 Domaine Yves Cuilleron Condrieu Les Chaillets

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  2/17/2018 - chatters wrote:

  Gnocchi fun in Woolongong (Woollongong): Apricot and apricot jam…I have the sense of a slight botrytis hint on the nose. Dry on the palate, though, but with plenty of glycerol thickness. Slightly rotten apricot and animal notes. Perhaps a little tired…

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  12/6/2016 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A favourite Condrieu. Similar impressions to my previous notes. However, it's lost a little of its previous freshness and brightness. It's not falling over or anything but you might like to think about drinking bottles soon, unless you like drinking your Condrieu quite evolved.

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  9/15/2016 - cbforever1 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Classic freshness that Viognier is only capable to express in this region.

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  3/27/2015 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 Points

  My second recent bottle of this wine, with similar impressions. Old gold with green tints. A bouquet of lime and grapefruit zest, white meadow flowers, flint, gun smoke, bauxite and other minerals. Chewy, unctuous and viscous on the palate - serious fruit weight and power. The flavours are citric, mineral, smoky and creamy, finishes on attractive bitterness. Gives the impression of more than 13% alc. Served to a group of New World wine drinkers who were very impressed apart from a couple who didn't like the bitter aftertaste (to me, it nicely offsets the fruit sweetness, and increases complexity). It needs to come together a little though, hold for 3+ years.

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  7/11/2014 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Colour light gold, viscous and heavy in the glass with serious legs. A fragrant Viognier nose of talcum powder, peach, rock melon, lime zest, smoke, delicate white flowers and glycerol. Also a little chalk and gun metal and a touch of honey. A complex bouquet, that changes with time in the glass. Viscous and unctuous on entry into the palate, the flavours citric, honeyed, with a thread of chalky minerality. Good fruit weight, structure and power, well matched by bright acidity. Alcohol moderate (13%). Sympathetic oak handling (I understand there is 25% new oak). A touch of sweetness, again well matched by the acidity and the mineral flavours, that dominate on the long finish.

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