2005 François Chidaine Montlouis-sur-Loire Les Bournais

Community Tasting Notes (28) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  5/20/2022 - Chateaunewf Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Glorious bouquet of fruit salad and honey. A mix of of apple, white peach, pineapple, and Lilikoi. Suprizingly weighty on the palate but good acidity provides focus and delineation. Still clean and fresh with no indication of oxidation. Starting to dry out a bit on the finish so not at all cloying as indicated earlier in life by other CT member previous tasting notes. Probably at peak for good bottles so drink up if there are any others out there. Two bottles remaining in the cellar so I should heed my own advice this Summer.

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  8/18/2020 - Rieslingfan wrote:

  Very sweet and very honeyed. Feels like it's one step from oxidizing, but it is not there yet. Unfortunately it also has no "life." It just sort of lays there. Decent foil for spicy Indian fare, but nothing more.

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  6/7/2016 - Mark Larson wrote:

  Disappeared through the divorce. C'est la vie.
  Nothing like wine held hostage.

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  6/26/2014 - brooklynguy wrote:

  Good wine, but doesn't feel entirely well composed when it's this off-dry. Lovely aromatics but the wine just doesn't have the complexity to balance the sweetness, which can be almost jarring. Woolly and honeyed - classic, but doesn't follow through on the palate.

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  3/14/2014 - Villon wrote: 88 Points

  Très bien mais loin d'être sec! Opulent et baroque.

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