2016 Domaine Costal Chablis Les Truffières

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90 points

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  10/31/2021 - N777 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium clear yellow colored. No gas or sediment
  
  Nose: medium(+) aromas of pear, pineapple, lemongrass, and fresh linen. No apparent oaking to me
  
  Palate: medium bodied, medium acidity, off dry (on the sweeter side), minimal phenolics, super creamy texture. Medium/medium(+) flavors of pineapple, peach, cream, and some minty herbalness. Good complexity but a relatively short finish.
  
  Wow, this wine has a fantastic nose! On the palate it is creamy and tropical with some sweetness. The finish is fairly blunt, but the rest of the wine is great

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  9/10/2020 - jlhkiss Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Solid value. Had a glass after others drank most of the bottle over a few days. Kiwi-limestone nose with popcorn, chalk, honey, soda water, and lemon peel into an ultra-dry finish. Drink now. Technical score: 90. Enjoyment score: 90.

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  7/23/2020 - AdamHitchcock Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Med flavors of citrus and green apple. Med+ acidity and med body. Well balanced Chablis. Drink now.

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  3/11/2019 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Light straw yellow in color. Full, forward & fragrant nose of ripe citrus overtones of lemons/limes, grapefruit & apples with overtones of floral & mineral notes, chalky & wet stones. Medium-light bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, ripe fruit flavors of green apples, lemons/limes & white grapefruit with chalk & minerals. Lingering crisp finish. Drinks quite well at present & may develop further with a few more years of additional aging if cellared properly.

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  10/20/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Winebar [4 Whites, 5 Reds, & 5 *shared* Bottles] from 10/19/18 (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): From 20 yr old vines grown in the limestone soils of the 1.26 ha Truffières Vyd located in the commune of Villy, N of the town of Chablis; Vinified in s/s where it's aged for another 10 mos in stainless steel prior to spending 3 mos in demi-muid barrels (600-L); Neither cold-stabilized, fined, nor filtered
  
  N: Slightly closed; Butter (or at least SOMETHING wood oriented) atop honey with minerals WAY underneath?
  
  P: Med, poss MF, body; RNDISH entry with NICE frt met by a tangy acidity which fairly seamlessly evolves into a LONG, tangy/swt (60:40) finish with the outside POSSIBILITY of an incipient quasi-bitter flatness? For now & poss through EARLY '21, + could improve for the next 6 mos or so. LOTS of substance for "village" level, & my EXC- might well be an underrate. [This vendor's $23.95 is $6 < wine-searcher's next lowest current listing.]
  
  Note: While "butter" is, at the least, uncommon in Chablis, this bottling IS a collaboration between Kermit Lynch & the Collett Family, and I recall seeing a video of Kermit on Wine Library T.V. where he expresses his personal dislike of malic acid.

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