1985 Château d'Arlay Côtes du Jura Vin Jaune

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  1/6/2019 - octopussy Likes this wine: 96 Points

  In a great place and even improved as compared to my last bottle a few years ago. It was just very slightly oxidative, super fine, elegant, almost more fruity than nutty and spicy, but with a great underlying thread of yellow spices and the typical vegetal Savagnin aromas of Aloe Vera and white squash. Spectacular.

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  5/1/2014 - octopussy wrote: 95 Points

  Soirée Jura (Restaurant Madame Hu, Hamburg): From two different bottles, one decanted for four hours, one just opened four hours in advance. Orange colour tending towards the brown. Quite similar from both bottles. In the nose, there's a lot of orange: orange blossom water, English orange marmelade, lots of orange peel. Peaty-earthy notes in addition to that as well as toffee and nut brittle. On the palate, this is beautiful, very fine, earthy, with shining acidity, excellent structure, long with salty notes and orange again (like candied orange with salt on it). A splendid wine, worth a search.

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