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  • Despite lots of seepage, was just as good as the previous 2, with similar notes.
    Drink or hold.
    13% abv

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  • Similar comments. Does not possess any citrus on the palate which I truly am a sucker for in aged ripe chardonnay, but not bad. I could see myself getting quite tired of this style of wine quickly.

    Drink or hold til 2017+.
    13% abv

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  • From auction. No seepage, but cork disintegrated at 3/4 length. The wine showed no sign of oxidation. Served at 14C.
    Deep gold colour.
    N: smells like the Brets used the entire Nevers forest for this wine. I am initially skeptical I will enjoy this.

    P: Richly textured, with refreshing acidity that allows this heavy wine to avoid being cloying. Mainly oak and a bit of drying tannin, the chardonnay fruit was ripe, its vibrancy was muted by the slightly overpowering oak. Perhaps fashioned in the style of the surrounding Montrachet vineyards, the end result was very different: Pleasant but far from possessing their aerial texture. However, I'd tasted very few convincing Viré-Clessé wines, so this one was far superior in my limited experience.

    Certainly the most intensely oaked wine of any colour tasted in at least 5 years, and not sure I'd drink a case of this, but this one bottle was quite civilized for camping standards.

    13% abv
    Drink or hold, this could hold up another 5 years or more.

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  • Drinking nicely, still very bright and citric fruit with some hints green apple, brisk acids, nice finish that's picked up some nuttiness and secondary notes. Developing well and seems to have picked up a little heft over last few years. No rush on remaining bottles.

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  • Cheesy, leesy, a little funk, plenty of custard apple and loads of tropical fruits. This is full throttle white wine that pushes things to the limit and just manages to hold everything together. It is textural, heady and finishes with some lemon pulp. Dunno whether I’d want to drink too much of this but it worked pretty well with roast chook and tarragon butter and it is undoubtedly my 02 Vire-Clesse of the year thus far.

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    January/Febuary 2004, IWC Issue #112, (See more on Vinous...)

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