2018 Domaine François Cotat Sancerre Les Monts Damnés

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  7/1/2023 - Amberissey wrote: 91 Points

  Sour, sherbety, lemon and lime is the first thing I smell, with gooseberry, chalky minerality, and some white flowers. Pretty intense nose. Mega intense explosion of flavour on the palette. Some Sancerre greenness. Massive puckering sourness. Some great savoury bitterness. Serious affair.

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  6/30/2023 - paintinginacave Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Pours an ever so slightly cloudy medium straw. Gooseberry, a hint of lemon verbena, freshly picked white flowers, petrichor - the scent following rainfall - and a touch of lemon curd. Bone-crushing acidity, incredible concentration, persistent length, and exceptional purity. As a side note and compared to the Les Culs de Beaujeu of the same vintage this shows greater typicity and doesn’t have the residual sugar that the Les Culs de Beaujeu does and while that was the more remarkable wine this is still outstanding in its own right.

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  4/17/2023 - Mr.Fossan Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Show a very nice yeasty tone, pink grape, ripe green apple, sweet flowers and a little heat and bitterness at the end (but not in a disturbing way for me).
  Long finish!! Yum!

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  4/11/2023 - cubswinws Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nice round version of sav blanc with a touch of oak and pleasing finish.

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  3/18/2023 - Biggsy wrote: 93 Points

  Blind.Faith Season 6. Round two: Blind Pairs - £10 vs £100.
  
  Tasted Blind. Very pale gold. The nose felt quite tight and restrained - there’s citrus and the slightest hint of floral honey, but really didn't open up. Comes alive on the palate, with lots of piercing acidity. It’s powerful and layered with notes of lemon peel and a richer honeyed character. Very long and really intense. Lovely stuff.
  
  Notes on the blind tasting - I have to say I didn’t really have any idea on what this was. The acidity was the stand-out characteristic, but without any of the classic SB markers, I would never have guessed that. I went for a high-quality SA Chenin (Sadie Family) because of the honey and acid, but was not confident that was any way correct - which it wasn’t :-) Fantastic wine, very clearly the £100 wine of the pair.

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