2020 Château Simone Palette Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  4/26/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Clairette (studio): 2/10. 55-60° F. In 445 days this has shed virtually all sensations of fermentation (esters/lees) and exposed a comfortable degree of balsam and oak. Burgundian cultured pear/starfruit, red apple skin tannins, and lunging acidity animate the event. The texture is dense, waxy, mineral-transparent, and fresh.
  Served in sequence between Clairette blends Martin Texier's 2021 La Rouviere and Simone's 2014 Palette Blanc from magnum.

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  10/13/2023 - LW31 Likes this wine:

  Usually I like Simone blanc with more age, at least a few years, even 10, but this was surprisingly approachable, showing its famous complexity and lovely freshness. Excellent with ris de veau and roasted turbot and mushrooms

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  10/8/2023 - Frijole wrote:

  medium gold, lots of clarity, silvery hue
  Nose: unripe peach, green apple, chamomile, citrus, banana, white pepper, wax, musk, minerals, pine
  Pal: unripe peach, green apple, lemon, banana, marzipan, white pepper, wax, musk, butter, minerals, pine
  Feel: medium, light, round, acidic
  Finish: short, medium
  TC8

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  8/19/2023 - Papies wrote: 92 Points

  Our friends picked this off the challenging list at La Cour Jardin, Paris. “You definitely need to try this they said”. A fascinating wine and one that would be a major challenge if tasted blind. We would have guessed Italian like Verdicchio do Matelica.
  The nose starts reductive but settles to a calmness of beautiful nothing, the flinty side goes away and has a cool feel left to it . The palate has lovely stone fruits, citrus, light waxy texture and a nutty feel on the end. Good wine and very much an individual away with trying to fit in shenanigans. Good 92 now and not sure how this ages but definitely felt it could for some time.

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  7/23/2023 - RobbieK Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Hele mooie kleur, amber/diepgoud en dan weet je het eigenlijk al. Geen borrelwijn. Nee een echte maaltijdwijn. Mooie neus, beetje kruidigheid (pepertje, of toch garrique )wit fruit, perzik, zacht en mooie afdronk

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