1989 Domaine des Baumard Savennières Clos du Papillon

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  6/22/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very mature but amazingly it improved dramatically with 3 hours of air. What a wonderful taste and feel of honeyed nectar with a dry, minerally finish. At this point like a dry dessert wine.

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  3/1/2020 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points

  What a gorgeous perfume to this wine on the nose and palate with mature flavors of peach and melon with a lively intensity and a fine, taut, mineral-driven finish. A unique and wonderful aged Loire white at La Panetiere, Rye, NY.

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  8/1/2011 - jmht wrote: 97 Points

  Consumed as part of a larger Baumard tasting (multiple Trie Speciale, Clos Papillon, Clos Ste Catherine and Quarts de Chaume vintages).
  
  My WOTN. Words utterly fail to capture the beauty, intensity, balance, and profound nature of this bottle. It was even more profound than the same bottle I had 3 years ago, which to me ranked as the greatest white wine I had ever consumed, until this 89 Papillon with three additional years of cellaring. Among the ten tasters present, this bottle induced a quiet contemplative reverie.

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  7/20/2011 - LoireFan wrote: 92 Points

  Still young - great.

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  5/13/2011 - Zweder wrote: 95 Points

  Riesling tasting witth friends (@ WB): Very special (meant positive) and complex bouquet with yeasty impressions of bread and beer and also minerals and tropical fruits. Same on the palate. Extremely complex and in a perfect drinking stage now, even though it can probably last another decade.

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