2012 Domaine de la Pinte Savagnin Arbois

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89 points

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  7/14/2020 - tobyc Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Yellow colour. Med+ bouquet with spiced apple cake, some exotic fruits and nuts. High acidity levels with some oily texture, spiced apple pie, yeast, marzipan and calvados. Really good wine.

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  5/19/2019 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. Aged for 3-4 years in old foudres and demi-muds. Made in "ouillé" style, i.e. the casks are replenished as the wine evaporates during the aging. Tasted blind.
  
  Intense yellow-green color. Powerful, pungent and slightly waxy nose with aromas of waxy apples, mushroomy tones, some savory old wood, a little bit of grappa, light notes of wool socks, a hint pungent aldehydic character and a touch of beeswax. The wine is medium-bodied, waxy and slightly funky on the palate with somewhat oily mouthfeel and characterful flavors of steely minerality, a little bit of saline aldehydic tang, a hint of savory wood spice and a touch of lemony citrus fruits. Very little in the way of fruit here. The finish is dry, waxy and lengthy with flavors of tangy salinity, some mushroomy tones, a little bit of chalky mineral bitterness and a hint of mealy red apple.
  
  A nice, classic and tangy Jura Savagnin that shows some of the traditional aldehydic Jura character even though the wine is supposedly made in "ouillé" style. The fruit department feels a little understated, but it doesn't really matter, since there are lots of other things happening here. Perhaps lacking a bit depth and complexity, but since these Jura wines can age like crazy, I can imagine this will get better with further aging. Nice.

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  11/8/2018 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 88 Points

  Tasting of the Utrecht Wine Society (Utrecht, NL): Tasted blind. Apple, lots of minerality, decent Savagnin typicity, ripe touch on the nose, hint of funk, firm acidity and bitters, structured, good length.

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  6/1/2018 - Harley1199 wrote:

  Flashing Paris; 5/31/2018-6/3/2018 (Paris - France): Always with that note of natural wine that reminds some of us from the rubber and wild herbs similar to fennel. To others to boiled fish hints even. Anyway ...
  In the mouth very insubstantial with short length and a contained acidity. Nothing special.
  
  Siempre con ese deje de vino natural que a algunos nos lleva recordar la goma y y las hierbas silvestres parecidas al hinojo. A otros a notas a pescado hervido. En fin ...
  En boca muy insustancial con escasa longitud y una acidez contenida. Nada especial.

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