2019 Clos Ste. Magdeleine Cassis Blanc Bel-Arme

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92 points

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  9/24/2023 - MuddyBoots wrote:

  Herbal and saline notes and ripe orchard fruits. Fairly subdued aromatics. This evening i found this just a little lacking in acidic thrust. Has real breadth to it on the palate. Some early complexity now. Touch of garrigue / bitterness on the back end. A broad wine of real character but a wine clearly intended for the table. A nice change from all the high acid wine I usually reach for and with enough salinity to maintain some tension. Strongly resonates of the Mediterranean for me. I would wait a year or two longer. Perfect wine for a fish dish that needs some weight to the wine.

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  9/8/2023 - Eric Wright Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Solid QPR. Acid well balanced against sweetness. Herbal with strong salinity and minerality. Lovely with goat cheese soufflé and sea bass

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  3/15/2023 - MuddyBoots wrote:

  Similar to the below. Some citrus. Saline. Herbal. Touch of bitterness. Restrained. On the way to losing the real freshness of youth but gaining a more serene beauty. Quite different from most whites I drink - and the better for it.

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  9/11/2022 - MuddyBoots wrote:

  Majority Marsanne. Distinctly saline and herbal notes, some citrus, with a pleasant but pronounced bitterness on the finish. Its quite full on the palate but retains crispness, helped I think by a marked saline austerity on the back end. And this also offsets the ripeness as a result of which there is no evident sense of sweetness. These green herbal notes take you to the south of France. Lovely in its distinctive way. Much more nuanced than I expected. With grilled white fish, some lemon, capers, dill and olive oil it would only take a little imagination to transport you directly to Cassis. My first experience of this wine. An upside surprise. Probably best drunk young.

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  6/24/2022 - BadOyster wrote: 92 Points

  Nose of flowers, licorice, and petrol. while on the tongue it’s acidic citrus dominates, but as soon as you swallow, a rounder almost Chardonnay plushness comes in right before the neck-snapping blast of cut stone and sea salt that dominate the finish. An intriguing blend for sure, and one that I’d love to see after a few years in the bottle.

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