This really needs a touch of air to get going like all previous bottles. It starts out seeming like it might be oxidized and it is a tad brassy. That falls aside and the wine shows a penetrating green fruit nose with all sorts of other crazy things floating around lifted by a bit of VA maybe. Really fascinating wine.
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Well, a challenging wine to write up. Gorgeous deep yellow colour, a little reticent at first then, with good oxygenation, explodes into vinous brilliance. Complex, beguiling aromas that defy my skills of description; lemon, white and yellow stone fruits, some pear, almond, white flowers. Really quite brilliant. Nuclear physicist becomes alchemist ?
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Very elegant, and rich wine. Nose of herbs, chamomile, tea leaf and apricot. It has a medicinal scent also. Full bodied with very plush texture. Balanced and restraint with an intense fruitiness.
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7/20/2020 - petec-s Likes this wine: 93 Points
A superb showing, refined and with complexity, lightly chilled to show of the richly textured fabulousness of this delightful wine.
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2/1/2020 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 92 Points
This really needs a touch of air to get going like all previous bottles. It starts out seeming like it might be oxidized and it is a tad brassy. That falls aside and the wine shows a penetrating green fruit nose with all sorts of other crazy things floating around lifted by a bit of VA maybe. Really fascinating wine.
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1/15/2020 - GDa202 wrote: 94 Points
Well, a challenging wine to write up. Gorgeous deep yellow colour, a little reticent at first then, with good oxygenation, explodes into vinous brilliance. Complex, beguiling aromas that defy my skills of description; lemon, white and yellow stone fruits, some pear, almond, white flowers. Really quite brilliant. Nuclear physicist becomes alchemist ?
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4/27/2019 - petec-s Likes this wine: 92 Points
Elegant, finely detailed and with laser like delivery on the palate. Very well handled by the grand wizard of the middle Rhône.
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2/5/2019 - Filippospat Likes this wine: 89 Points
Very elegant, and rich wine. Nose of herbs, chamomile, tea leaf and apricot. It has a medicinal scent also. Full bodied with very plush texture. Balanced and restraint with an intense fruitiness.
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