Community Tasting Notes (6) Median Score: 92 points

  • Quite a different smell for this bottle - quite sweet, almost raisin-ey smell reflected when tasting - enough acidic cut through for an a refreshing end taste, but not quite as balanced as the last bottles.

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  • Old gold in glass

    on nose, more honey, less botrytis than younger sibling
    On palate, quite a few layers, lingering apricot sweetness over lemon, long.
    Compares well with similar age Sauternes

    Would have bought, but could not carry a magnum home

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  • A speculative purchase of many bottles of this vintage - not much on the nose, but immediate reminders of the 1998 vintage taste - wonderful burnt caramel apricot - very broad generous taste but with some acidic kick to keep it all together.

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  • This 15 year old half bottle has a light amber red tinged color, which neither looks nor smells particularly oxidized. The mouth entry is creamy, caressing, juicy, and nutty. But most importantly, the considerable sweetness is well balanced by cleansing acidity, which keeps the wine from ever becoming cloying. Delicious with a wide range of desserts, including creme brulee, chocolate, biscotti, and glazed fruits. Keeps well for weeks corked in the refrigerator.

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  • On the first day this smelled and tasted of honey, walnuts, and a kind of stale funk...imagine baklava left out for a couple of days in a dank basement. Not bad by any stretch, although not a bellringer. The texture, mouthfeel, and finish were very good.

    On the second day it really came out of its shell. It drank similar to a Gewurztraminer de Grains Nobles or some dessert wines from Languedoc-Roussillon. The wet basement funk had disappeared and this became a very pleasurable drink with a long, mouth-coating finish.

    Let it breathe for a few hours.

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