2005 François Chidaine Montlouis-sur-Loire Clos Habert

Community Tasting Notes (60) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  9/29/2021 - Neurowine1 wrote: 92 Points

  Hey now... OK! 14 years in the box. Hard not to dig Chidaine wines. Not a bit of added color here. Looks like last year's vintage. Muted nose, but explosive apricot, orange peel, and honeyed almonds in the mouth. There is certainly some sweetness here that tastes almost botrytised, but with a gorgeous core of searing acidity that makes chenins so amazing and age-worthy. Medium long finish. This is drinking beautifully now but thinning out some on the back end and a hint of oxidation. Would drink these up. With lemony herb scallop pasta, super, just super!

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  9/17/2021 - cephomer Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Had with dinner tonite at CKH with the Kindlers. The nose is a lovely cornucopia of white flowers, apricot and honey. Medium, fairly lean, and a bit sweeter up front than I anticipated, but a very dry, mineral-laden finish. A true demi sec wine. Excellent acidity and minerality but a bit short. Very nice wine, drinking quite nicely. Went great with my ceviche.

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  7/14/2020 - JonnyG Likes this wine: 89 Points

  A Lovely Outdoor Tasting Session with a Bastille Day Nod (Industrial Eats, Buellton, CA): From a well-stored magnum, generously shared to give our tasting a Bastille Day flair. Monitored over the course of the evening. Certainly showed at its best with air and as it rose in temperature, but nonetheless I have to say I found it quite one-dimensional, with sweet white peach and floral notes dominating. Lacked sufficient complexity to hold my interest, though did complement a curry reasonably well.

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  4/10/2019 - Zweder wrote: 92 Points

  Monthly Tasting Group HWS #138; Loire white (By RvD): Beautiful and complex bouquet with minerals, honey, apricots, licorice and some medicine. On the palate complex as well, very tasty, a bit fat, good acidity and some pleasant sweetness. Beautiful and intense wine.

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  2/14/2018 - chefdilletante wrote:

  Picking up considerable gravitas. Tropical fruit completely subsumed, now all river stones, tannin, wool. Energetic acid keeps this moving. Lots of life left.

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