Given my last experience with this wine, I wasn't sure what to expect, but this was a nice surprise. None of the weird nose notes on this bottle, just lots of honey and stonefruit with some regular funky Loire chenin notes - a lovely nose. A very unctuous, well balanced, mouth-coating palate follows, with more honey, apricot, pear, pineapple, lime and quince. A nice long finish follows for this great dessert style wine. Ar peak now, I think.
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Hazy notes from last week. There was a very weird nose - like cat's pee, some sort of bacterial thing going on. But the palate was fine: sweet, honeyed, typically funky chenin flavours and reasonable acidity. Definitely not a top producer, usually rather rustic wines, and this follows that trend even in the great 2002 vintage (B/B+).
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6/17/2014 - JohnSh wrote: 92 Points
Given my last experience with this wine, I wasn't sure what to expect, but this was a nice surprise. None of the weird nose notes on this bottle, just lots of honey and stonefruit with some regular funky Loire chenin notes - a lovely nose. A very unctuous, well balanced, mouth-coating palate follows, with more honey, apricot, pear, pineapple, lime and quince. A nice long finish follows for this great dessert style wine. Ar peak now, I think.
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12/26/2012 - JohnSh wrote: 87 Points
Hazy notes from last week. There was a very weird nose - like cat's pee, some sort of bacterial thing going on. But the palate was fine: sweet, honeyed, typically funky chenin flavours and reasonable acidity. Definitely not a top producer, usually rather rustic wines, and this follows that trend even in the great 2002 vintage (B/B+).
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6/24/2010 - Colia wrote: 89 Points
Funky nose of gooseberry and apricot. Really complex and funky. I could just consider this wine for a long time.
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4/1/2010 - Weston3220 Likes this wine: 88 Points
No Formal Tasting notes, drank last night with some other wines.
Good, not super concentrated as I would of liked to see from a Sweet, great acidity tho
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