2015 Domaine de Vaufuget Vouvray

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  6/19/2018 - Cabernetdialectic Likes this wine: 92 Points

  What better celebratory wine than... Medium dry Vouvray? Hey, this is a true wine geek’s grape, to quote one esteemed instructor. It ripens unevenly, the flavours can morph all over the place from steely to smoky to plush tropical fruit, and the grape can yield successful examples of ANY white wine style, given the right conditions. Loire valley nod right here, with the residual sweetness right where it needs to be. Palate and nose are full of lush yellow and green pears, honeydew, kiwis, candied apple (the red candy coating, not caramel), greenish bananas (perhaps made into a creme pie), lemon meringue (again with the pie) nutmeg and allspice, marzipan, and honeysuckle. If you want to get technical, this is high acid, just a hair above low alcohol at 11.5%, full bodied, and built to last if not improve with time.

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  10/19/2017 - rjm wrote: 86 Points

  Thin and sweet but nice

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  9/13/2017 - BrunelloBob wrote: 87 Points

  Watery upfront but a powerful, sharp green apple/lemon persistence. I'm not in love.

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  7/15/2017 - Ortiz Brown wrote: 87 Points

  This *might* have been our second Chenin Blanc, so take what follows with a grain of salt. And we should note, we're not fans of sweeter wines.
  
  Pale straw in the glass with a degree of viscosity when poured. On the nose, citrus and…freshly cleaned pool? On the palate we got pulpy melon and pineapple. Unctuous and sweet with some minerality on the finish a slight acidity that doesn’t quite balance the sweetness. Nice wine for the price ($15) that inspires us to further explore Chenin Blanc, albeit one slightly drier than this de Vaufuget.

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