2008 Domaine Marc Morey & Fils Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chenevottes

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  4/27/2022 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Bright mid to deep yellow. Aromas of minerals, chalk dust, desiccated almond and pressed yellow flowers with a twist of spice.
  The entry shows a fabulous line of edgy, almost strident acidity with a lemon infusion. Medium-bodied, lovely concentration and flow gives a lissom mid-palate fleshed out with apricot skin, peach flesh, lemon verbena and lemon tart with an undertow of almonds paste and oatmeal.
  However, the texture is almost fibrous, giving a chewy, chalky back-palate suggesting higher extract (firmer pressing?). As the wine opens, more tropical notes balance the crunchy edge of the wine whilst the finish is lemon-tinged and lingering. Some more almond and oatmeal

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  10/17/2020 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Medium+ lemon yellow. Reticent nose with mineral, lemon and apple. Some evolution noted and also on the palate, which opens with a fine, fresh, almost chalky acidity. A fleshy texture with a juicy broad mid-palate shows sweet white peach, pineapple slices, ripe lemon yet tarter green apple, tart tatin and then apple blossom. The wine seems elegant, perhaps a little evolved, with good length. The sweetness of the fruit does tame the acidity, and there is a hint of honey on the aftertaste. A good wine yet not overly stimulating.

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  4/12/2017 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 90 Points

  (Tasted blind) Mid gold. Restrained nose with damp chalk in a Tupperware tub, mineral and river stones.
  Some development on the palate with lots of ripe stone fruits giving fatness to the mid-palate cut through with a blade of vibrant acidity. As the wine opens, it becomes fresher and more vigorous; an elegant wine, complex with long farewell.
  Chevenottes often has that bit more blade of acidity, and in unripe vintages is a little more sappy and stony.

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  3/24/2016 - Wardyn wrote: 89 Points

  Aroma of green melons and vanilla on the nose. High acidity bursting with citrus and stone fruits, infused with a layer of minerals and slate. Lacking a bit of mid weight. But the lingering mineral finish makes up for it.

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  4/27/2015 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Light to mid yellow.
  Intense aromas of lemon meringue, white and yellow peach alongside sea spray, tidal pool and orchard fruit.
  Soft yet fresh acidity on entry, quite delicate with a pear flesh, creme fraiche note alongside a saline edge giving a tang to the mid-palate. Some creamy oak evident, quite a broad wine, then the flavour of lemon cheesecake, curd and lemon meringue come through alongside finely crushed oat bran. Quite a lissom wine that is rich and juicy but not that deep nor that long. The lemon gives a tang or sharpness to the mid-palate that I enjoyed and there is rock dust, a mineral edge that I find in many 2008's that I really enjoy, though to some this may appear almost tart!

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