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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by andtheodor on 3/9/2023 & rated 91 points: Rich, wooly, chamomile, honey, serve me this blind and I'd confidently say a younger vintage of Moulin Touchais. (355 views) | | | Tasted by David Paris (dbp) on 2/27/2015 & rated 91 points: E&R's 1st Annual Salon des Vins de La Loire-egon et La Dive Bouteille (E&R Wine Shop, Portland OR): A fun extra pour of an older bottle. This offers rich honey aromas and nice rich intensity; quite deep and complex. Soft and lovely balance of richness and tartness on the palate. Really drinking in a beautiful place today, with a nice rich finish. (2455 views) | | | Tasted by chefdilletante on 11/27/2013: Second bottle of the night. First was oxidized, which seems to be a recurrent issue for this era of Chidaine wines. He learned that you can only lower sulfur levels so much before the wine suffers in the long term. With that in mind, it's likely that some of the tasting notes below reflect oxidized wines.
The wine has put on some weight, with a prominent wet stone finish. Fruit is predominated by pineapple, with a bit of citrus. It took about two hours of air before this started to show better. This wine was beautiful and vigorous in its youth. It's drinking reasonably but hasn't aged particularly gracefully. (1784 views) | | | Tasted by winot on 5/10/2013 & rated 91 points: Definitely better once it warmed up a bit - medium deep gold, almost alarmingly so - nose is shy, showing burnished, medicinal notes, flan - wonderful, aged flavours - complex orange peel, burnt caramel - v good acidity, and v good length - went extraordinarily well with mid-aged Gouda - elegant, complex, contemplative. Likely demi-sec sweetness but with the acidity it does not come across as sweet at all, just a bit on the sides. If I had more, I'd drink them soon, but no panic. (2381 views) | | | Tasted by BradKNYC on 2/19/2013 flawed bottle: Bo ssam and vino with a visiting John Tomasso. (Christine & Marty's.): Heat damaged, dang it. A shame as this was the wine that got me into Chidaine. (2914 views) | | | Tasted by caboychuck on 4/9/2010: Honey suckle nose. Age is showing a bit on this, but this is nice. Nice weight, ample green and yellow fruit with a nice vibrant finish. (2724 views) | | | Tasted by BradKNYC on 2/27/2010: TN: Weird and wacky wines at Joe's (Joe's): After three torturous wines in a row, I begged and pleaded with Joe to find something in his refrigerator that I'd like. This emerged. Hello, old friend! I haven't had this wine since release and it's changed quite a bit. It seems to be evolving a little faster than anticipated. Granted, the aging curve of Montlouis is faster than its Vouvray brethren across the river, but I was a little surprised by how dark it had gotten in the past 5 years. It's a deep gold color now. It's quite fragrant with apricot, mineral and marzipan aromas dominating. A little shy on the palate as we popped and poured and air certainly would've helped it. There's hints of quince on the palate, but it's more in the rear view mirror and a more mature apricot profile now dominates. Demi-Sec sweetness, but is showing less sweet than it did on release and having lost its baby fat, that vivacious '02 acidity is even more like razor wire, in a good way. A-. (2725 views) | | | Tasted by Brad L on 5/24/2008: Deep gold. Beautiful purity. Perhaps a touch less rich than the 05, which is fine for me. Secondaries coming out that were really hard to describe, but they sure were good - in the smoky, green tea, mineral vein. Honey. Not a ton of overt fruit but just gorgeous. I would not consider this in any way aged, but it certain made a case for hanging on to...this was certainly very young. (1565 views) |
| By Jason Wilson
Vinous, Loire Chenin Blanc: Underrated No More (Jul 2020) (7/1/2020)
(François Chidaine Montlouis Clos Habert White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Lyle Fass
Rockss and Fruit (2/23/2004)
(Francois Chidaine Montlouis-sur-Loire "Clos Habert") Nuts, flowers, kafir lime leaf, chestnut on the nose. Very nice clean aromas. Great presence on the palate with stellar concentration and ripeness. A chestnut essence echos throughout. Great structure here. Maybe a touch young but holds much in reserve. |
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