1983 Nicolas Joly Clos de la Coulée de Serrant

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  11/8/2017 - ryonlife wrote: 88 Points

  Our server made a disaster of the service, pushing the cork into the bottle, no filter on hand, no decanter on hand, so decanted into a water carafe and then didn’t have quite a large enough ice bucket to cool it off. Nose of dried peach, toffee, petrol. On the palate there’s high acidity that overwhelms a bit, but super impressive to taste this in an 83. Flavors of crab apple kisses. Gets better with food.

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  5/31/2017 - logos Likes this wine: 84 Points

  medium gold. remarkably fresh, lush yet razor sharp chenin nose with elegant, sharply delineated floral notes is austere yet attractive; very acid, mineral flavour,firmly structured. some woodiness along with more mature notes of great class and rich floral complexity, tinged with largely yellow fruits, but a hint of a core of cassis-like intensity in nose; and softer elements on palate to somewhat counterbalance extreme acidity, slowly emerge with air. very long aftertaste. if acidity moderates in time will be superb.

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  9/18/2015 - BradKNYC wrote:

  Coulée de Serrant-a-thon: 1967 - 1990. (Racines, NYC): This continued the theme of being similar, yet with subtle differences. The wine initially showed some sulfur on the nose, but it blew off with air. The fruit is a bit more yellow and upfront here than in the '88 or '85 and shows a little bit of botrytis character and honeycomb to go along with refreshing citrus, botanical and stony notes. Big time acid structure, but the riper fruit makes it a touch more generous and appealing than the previous two wines. A-.

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  9/18/2015 - mdefreitas wrote: 92 Points

  An enlightening vertical of Clos de la Coulée de Serrant (Racines, NYC): A bit of sulfur was noted when first poured, but this improved and blossomed with air. Racy and crisp; hints of yellow fruits and dusted with minerals. A bit of herbs and beeswax mixed in with hints of botrytis. Lots of flavor here and loads of personality. One of the most intriguing and "fun" wines of the night.

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  12/14/2013 - Porphyr Likes this wine: 97 Points

  One of the most interesting wine discoveries I have ever made.
  A bottle full of complex tertiary aromas, yet so incredibly fresh, with searing acidity and minerality! It fills the mouth and then keeps on and on. 30 years of age for a white wine? Easy, it appears, for a Coulée de Serrant! Drank from a Magnum.

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