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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by dkstar1 on 3/10/2024 & rated 90 points: Previous reviewer is spot on. This feels young but still good with some air. I’d decant this if drinking anytime soon. (202 views) | | | Tasted by TDV on 2/27/2024 & rated 91 points: Unripe pear, a little bit of lemon blossom on the nose. Really pretty. Palate has good tension - enough weight to give it some substance, nice little mineral streak on the finish. Nice, fluid texture. Feels a bit young but it’s lovely now too. Not your sister-in-law’s Sauvignon Blanc (just me? ok). 13% (292 views) | | | Tasted by depechemoroder on 8/28/2023 & rated 90 points: A nice end to this case and a celebration of summer. Pretty much consistent with previous notes. Clean, fresh, expressive. (613 views) | | | Tasted by depechemoroder on 8/13/2023 & rated 90 points: These have been delicious - pure, and crystalline, but with halo of sweet fleshy fruit that is subtle - think melons and cucumbers. The minerality has continued to grow more intense of some bottles. I don't know that these will necessarily get better, but they are holding very nicely. (573 views) | | | Tasted by depechemoroder on 7/22/2023 & rated 91 points: Quite similar to my previous note - perhaps a rounder quality to the fruit, but the minerality and texture on this bottle was more precise. Lovely and delicious. (552 views) | | | Tasted by Cote d'Or on 6/25/2023: Tasted over 2 hrs
-translucent pale gold-green
-grassy lemon sauvignon
-med/med+ acidity, med/med- weight sappy intense clean sauvignon fruit and minerality with good length
-nice verve, good complexity, and typicity make this a top Sancerre that doesn't try to be something else, excellent (648 views) | | | Tasted by depechemoroder on 6/17/2023 & rated 91 points: The last two notes ring very true to me. There is an open ripeness to this that still manages to show freshness and purity. Mirabelles sprinkled with cucumber water is the best description I can give to the rounded fruit, with the mineral structure taking a while to build in the back palate. If you have lots of this and plenty of asparagus you'll have a lovely late spring. (574 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 10/26/2022 & rated 91 points: A private dinner with friends (Noble Rot Wine Bar & Restaurant, London, UK): Bright and ively, ripe but crunchy, much more zesty and mineral than I had expected from a Cotat wine from a warm vintage, very good varietal and terroir expression. (1671 views) | | | Tasted by forceberry on 7/30/2021 & rated 90 points: A single-vineyard Sancerre from organically farmed 25-yo vines. Fermented spontaneously and aged in old, neutral demi-muids. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. 13% alcohol.
Youthful, pale green color. Youthful, fresh and ever-so-slightly primary nose with slightly restrained aromas of ripe greencurrants, some sour apple candy tones, a little bit of cool wet stone minerality and a hint of cucumber. The wine feels broad, juicy and ripe yet at the same time wonderfully firm on the palate with a medium body and bright flavors of fresh green apples and greencurrants, some mineral notes of wet stones, a little bit of tangy salinity, light zesty nuances of ripe citrus fruits and a hint of wool. Bright, balanced high acidity. The finish is long and lively with dry flavors of tart green apples, stony minerality, some lemony citrus fruit notes, a little bit of crunchy white currant, a hint of ripe gooseberry and a touch of cucumber.
A still very youthful, bright and zippy Sancerre that doesn't show any of the vegetal qualities normally associated with Sauvignon Blanc. However, even though the wine shows some obvious ripeness, the overall feel is very dry, fresh and crunchy, wonderfully light on its feet. As a whole the wine feels perhaps a bit too young and linear at the moment, and even with air, the nose came across as slightly closed. However, the overall style here is beautifully pure, fresh and brimming with potential. This is a pleasantly chiseled vintage of Les Caillottes that is going to take another few years before it starts to realize its potential - and it will improve for much longer. Good value at 26€. (2182 views) | | | Tasted by Alykhan V on 6/16/2021 & rated 91 points: More restrained nose
A very high quality SB
Mineral notes
Excellent expression of this otherwise insipid grape
Subtle, elegant, and complex (1530 views) | | | Tasted by jviz on 9/28/2020 flawed bottle: Lacking in fruit and acidity. Didn’t have the stuffing to match with oysters and mignonettes.
With more experience with Cotat, I’m wondering if this had travel shock or was just a poor bottle (1967 views) |
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