Trop marqué par la réduction, le vin n’offrait ni son raisin ni son terroir, frôlant la disqualification… Ni coing, ni citron, mais de l’allumette craquée, du grillé jusqu’à plus soif, avec la bouche qui relance cette austérité monacale ! Taillé pour vieillir encore 12 ans de plus, je ne saurai dire si un jour il se détendra… On sent bien qu’il y a du vin, mais personnellement impossible d’en profiter.
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"Brunch is the gamay of meals" (Chicago, IL): Not fatally reduced like the last bottle of this that I had, however there is still quite a bit of reduction overall. This time, you can taste the intensity of the fruit and the long minerally finish on the back end as well. It's the sort of intense where the wine almost feels bitter (but this one actually is, just a little).
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Chenin study (et al.) (Chicago, IL): Others at the table liked/tolerated this far better than I did, but this was horribly reduced. Burnt rubber, weird green aromas, and bitter and acrid on the palate. Perhaps there was some good material here (this seemed to have some pleasant fruit elements and a nice vein of acidity) but there's too much of the bad stuff going on. We hoped more air would fix the issue: it did not.
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an explosion of acidity but in such a delightful silky way it makes you beg for more. Flint and matchstick on the nose at first but it evolves into citrus, minerals, apple, spice too. very complex and good lenght
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6/19/2023 - Raage wrote:
Trop marqué par la réduction, le vin n’offrait ni son raisin ni son terroir, frôlant la disqualification…
Ni coing, ni citron, mais de l’allumette craquée, du grillé jusqu’à plus soif, avec la bouche qui relance cette austérité monacale ! Taillé pour vieillir encore 12 ans de plus, je ne saurai dire si un jour il se détendra…
On sent bien qu’il y a du vin, mais personnellement impossible d’en profiter.
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6/6/2021 - acyso wrote: 90 Points
"Brunch is the gamay of meals" (Chicago, IL): Not fatally reduced like the last bottle of this that I had, however there is still quite a bit of reduction overall. This time, you can taste the intensity of the fruit and the long minerally finish on the back end as well. It's the sort of intense where the wine almost feels bitter (but this one actually is, just a little).
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6/16/2019 - acyso wrote: 70 Points
Chenin study (et al.) (Chicago, IL): Others at the table liked/tolerated this far better than I did, but this was horribly reduced. Burnt rubber, weird green aromas, and bitter and acrid on the palate. Perhaps there was some good material here (this seemed to have some pleasant fruit elements and a nice vein of acidity) but there's too much of the bad stuff going on. We hoped more air would fix the issue: it did not.
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9/15/2017 - Wine_easy Likes this wine: 93 Points
an explosion of acidity but in such a delightful silky way it makes you beg for more. Flint and matchstick on the nose at first but it evolves into citrus, minerals, apple, spice too. very complex and good lenght
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11/28/2014 - christyler wrote:
Off bottle? Very reductive and strange. Not what I expected from Leroy.
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