Oaky on the nose, but in a pleasant way. Nutty. Quite round and full-bodied on the palate. Acidity there in support but a little hollow at first. With air this really freshened and tightened up, green grapey fruit.
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A bit disappointing, given the price. Seemed a bit simple, with the oak and reduction in the forefront. Probably needs some cellar time to come together?
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Decanted around 3 hours before serving. Poured into Grassl Libertes. Super reduced with a ton of smoke on the nose (almost meme-ified). Fairly light in style, with stone fruit and a stony quality. The reduction here is so dominating -- almost like peat in an Islay.
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Dinner with Paul and Jeff (The George Town Club - DC): Really Coche-like, with a lot of reduction. Perhaps Dirk is creating a caricature of Coche wines. Very neutral and cool fruit expression, cool and slightly lean palate. Medium acidity and strong mineral. If tasted blind, I would have guessed it was Chardonnay. Dirk seems to be having a lot of fun with this wine. Really cool and enjoyable.
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4/19/2024 - jamesabdavis wrote:
Oaky on the nose, but in a pleasant way. Nutty.
Quite round and full-bodied on the palate. Acidity there in support but a little hollow at first. With air this really freshened and tightened up, green grapey fruit.
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4/6/2024 - mdefreitas wrote: 90 Points
A bit disappointing, given the price. Seemed a bit simple, with the oak and reduction in the forefront. Probably needs some cellar time to come together?
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3/30/2024 - ekorn wrote:
Decanted around 3 hours before serving. Poured into Grassl Libertes. Super reduced with a ton of smoke on the nose (almost meme-ified). Fairly light in style, with stone fruit and a stony quality. The reduction here is so dominating -- almost like peat in an Islay.
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3/6/2024 - dcwino wrote: 94 Points
Dinner with Paul and Jeff (The George Town Club - DC): Really Coche-like, with a lot of reduction. Perhaps Dirk is creating a caricature of Coche wines. Very neutral and cool fruit expression, cool and slightly lean palate. Medium acidity and strong mineral. If tasted blind, I would have guessed it was Chardonnay. Dirk seems to be having a lot of fun with this wine. Really cool and enjoyable.
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1/14/2024 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 Points
Houston Wine Merchant sent out an email on this highly allocated Niepoort which grabbed my attention.
Burgundian in style I'm told. This reminded me of the Raul Perez Godello I scored from The Bottle List not long ago.
Wonderfully complex, it would be hard to place this wine blind. A mix of Dry Riesling, Albarino & Chardonny in the bottle.
Hold if you can keep your hands off it.
94+
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