2006 Château La Blancherie Vin Blanc Sec de Graves

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  3/20/2014 - forceberry wrote: 72 Points

  Medium deep yellow color. Heady and powerful, but quite stuffy and unattractive nose with aromas of wool, old yellow fruits and some mushroomy character. The wine is quite light and thin on the palate with flavors of tart citrus fruits, steely minerality and a light, watered-down streak of buttery oak. The wine is high in acidity, and the lack of fruit makes the acidity stick out a bit. The finish is medium-long with rather pronounced, mouthwatering acidity and flavors of bright citrus fruits, light oak flavors of sweet spices and a hint of clarified butter. The aftertaste feels rather neutral, thanks to the bright acidity.
  
  A very thin and uninspiring white Graves with pretty disagreeable nose. Most likely the wine has just seen better days and the fruit has started to die out. The wine doesn't really feel dead in the sense that there is no oxidation or that kind of developed character - the fruit just tastes very thin and watery and the wine just feels like a skeleton without any surrounding tissue. As the fruit has grown so thin, there is no room for depth or complexity. Overall the wine just really doesn't taste that good. It might be that this is a poorly stored bottle, or then this is just a wine that was never supposed to get this old. It might have been nice when it was young, but it really isn't now.

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