2018 Domaine Yves Cuilleron Viognier Les Vignes d'à Côté

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 89.6 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View arvidpalmqvist's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/15/2022 - arvidpalmqvist wrote:

  Initial impression not great balance (fat, waxy, low acidity, 14% abv) but with time, alcohol indusing and general acceptance that this is how it’s supposed to be (which I knew already) I like it for what it is. Butter, tropical fruit. Glad I did not pair it with food and glad I had it as the 2nd wine of the night.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View PatrickO33's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/13/2021 - PatrickO33 wrote: 88 Points

  Ripe pear, apricots and a hint of bitterness. Not as voluminous and coarse as some Viognier. With air this develops into an intense and flavorful, yet elegant wine.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Eudemis's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/12/2021 - Eudemis Likes this wine:

  14% alcohol. Diam10 closure, impressively long. Pale golden colour.
  The nose is aromatic without being too obvious or insistent; yellow flowers and ripe apricot. The mouth is even better, with remarkable intensity, superb finish and commendable acidity; all this without being excessively perfumey, which is one of the pitfalls of the grape. A success without a doubt.
  
  This wine and Vlllard's Contours de Deponcins have replaced Condrieu in my purchasing habits. They may lack the last degree of subtlety or concentration of the best Condrieu (though I have not had them side by side, preferably blind), but they are sufficiently close for my purpose for a much more reasonable outlay.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Eudemis's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/19/2021 - Eudemis Likes this wine:

  14% alcohol. Bright straw colour. Floral aromatic nose with some exotic fruit and pleasant notes of sweat (make what you will of that).
  The mouth is pretty intense with yellow soft fruit in evidence.
  Not the complexity of the best Condrieu, but a highly satisfying Viognier with some Northern Rhône character.
  A repeat purchase.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View chatters's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/15/2021 - chatters wrote:

  Perfumed with apricot, touch of lychee, a little ginger spice. Plenty of glycerol and alcohol heat in the mouth, ripe apricot, touch of texture on the mid palate ,finishes with bitter notes. Hmm.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 19 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.