2020 Château Mont-Redon Côtes du Rhône Blanc Réserve

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89 points

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  11/9/2022 - kostaslonis wrote:

  Sampled at Oinoscent.
  The wine shows medium intensity, nutty, celery, green notes, pear peel, herbal notes.
  Palate with nice body, medium to high acidity, very hot from the 14.50% alcohol (gets better if you serve it really cold), green again, celery, pear, green apple, skin/peel texture, a touch astringent, medium finish

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  5/6/2022 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 89 Points

  What is there not to like about a 'cheap and cheerful' that delivers that bit more than just generic dry white pleasure?
  
  Don't read the score as in some way indicating sub-par wine - it is easy to slip into the 'everything good seems to score in the 90's' mode. On value and pleasure I score this very highly. I could even make a case that if you slapped on a label from a more exalted house this would score higher.
  
  The wine is an attractive white gold, very clear and bright (none of this 'natural' or 'orange' wine stuff and nonsense here, thank you). The nose delivers a textbook sense of white Rhone - some pleasing tropical fruit aromatics, some sense of chalk and gravel and it is wonderfully clean and vibrant. In the mouth you get much the same plus very good length and real intensity. I love having this with a simple pasta of garlic and thyme with a little chilli flake; Oysters without any fussing about; or a thin based pizza with rosemary, sea salt flakes, a dash of truffle oil and some garlic.
  
  The maker is one of the most venerable in the southern Rhone and is on the march - they are doing really good things despite their fusty image. Try their wines whilst they remain at bargain prices, because at some point the madding crowd, marketers and other swine may get on board and ruin things. Malthus, where art thou?
  
  Another thing that I like about this wine is that it is spared the pox of Viognier, a variety I find repellant. I know this is a naughty thing to say and I recognise what others love. It is the twist of bitterness at the finish that really drives me mad/er. The rest I like, but that I cannot forgive. it is the vinous equivalent of not just farting, but vomiting in the lift.

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  11/15/2021 - Nyllet wrote:

  Straw yellow. Quite stale nose with melon, flowers and spice. Yellow fruit, grilled lemon and some oak on the palette. Medium acidity.

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