Avalon, Amsterdam
Tasted Thursday, February 1, 2024 - Friday, February 2, 2024 by ThijsV with 53 views
Dinner with twelve, where everybody brought a serious bottle and some bottles of the amazing Avalon wine list. Martine prepared the great food to accompany the wines
(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] The petrol took me to riesling, but the acidity made me doubt it. This wine was on my bucket list, but the showing of tonight did not justify that spot. It felt too advanced for its age, a bit tired. Missing some tension, especially for riesling (and for a wine of this status). Medium intensity with petrol, lemon, lime, honey, linoleum. Ripe. Medium+ acidity, medium+ finish
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Couldn’t pinpoint this. Kept developing in the glass, very interesting. Did not disappoint, given the cult status this has (and secondary market prices). Medium+ acidity with maggi, lemon, quite oily. Medium+ acidity, long finish
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Pretty funky at the start, red fruit, juicy. Medium+ acidity, long finish. Interesting to try this
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Red fruit, slightly oxidative, mushrooms. Very fruity. Medium acidity. “Lopez de Heredia light” as someone called it. 30 months in old woord
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Tasted next to Comte Lafon Meursault Charmes from the same vintage. This felt older, but not less. It stood up very well. Quite advanced in color, ripe fruit, tropical fruit, caramel, both reductive and oxidative. Medium+ acidity, long finish. 92-93
Loved it, great wine
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Tasted alongside with the Palladius 2018. This was lean and elegant, definitely not the old style thick and buttery Meursault. Flint, firework, herbs, almond, white flowers, lemon, apples. Medium+ acidity, long finish. 93+
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Great to taste this with some age, great wine. Medium intensity with piccalilli (not my aroma call, but a great descriptor), savoury, herbs, lemon, apple. Medium+ acidity, long finish. 92-93
In great balance and I always like it when a wine is not fruit driven
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] I called this cuvee, as I had the ‘16, ‘18 and ‘19 over the last year and this wine is so singular that it was immediately clear. Medium+ intensity with a fair amount of reduction, nutty, ripe exotic fruit. Medium+ acidity with a very long finish. This is powerful, some at the table found it too much
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(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Very interesting and seductive on the nose (with black cherry, blue berry, oak spices, sous bois), but still a bit tight on the palate. Medium+ acidity, medium+ tannins, long finish. 91-92+
Too young at the moment? 18 months in French and German oak
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(2/2/2024)
[Tasted blind] My immediate association was strawberry ‘roosvicee’ (a typical Dutch squash made with a fair amount of rose pettals), a bitter note, laurel, black currant, cinnamon, lactic note. Medium+ acidity, medium tannins, medium+ finish
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(2/2/2024)
[Tasted blind] This Fourrier did not disappoint; black fruit, cola, spice, sous bois. Very juicy. Medium+ acidity, medium tannins, medium+ finish
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(2/2/2024)
[Tasted blind] Tasted next to Grivot’s Clos Vougeot from the same vintage. This was very, very good, although not the ethereal experience I had hoped for (maybe a another cuvee some time). Medium+ intensity on the nose with initially some broth notes which blew off quickly, great red fruit and cherries, elegant oak, light touch of black current, roses, floral. It is the palate that made this wine, not by the flavors, but the weightless, velvety, elegant feeling. So elegant and seductive. 93-94
Bottle 0584
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(2/2/2024)
[Tasted blind] Tasted next to Cecile Tremblay and, as Peter in the previous note said, this was the more restrained of the two, albeit the more complex one. Already very beautiful and enjoyable today (with medium intensity; red fruit, cherry, warm spices) it will has much more to give in the future. Medium+ acidity, medium- tannins, long finish. 93+
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(2/2/2024)
This was unfortunately fully maderized. Bought at an auction and I guess it has spent the better part of its life in a sunny Spanish shop window. Coffee, chocolate, raisins, stout.
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(2/2/2024)
[Tasted blind] Couldn’t pinpoint this. Didn’t show a lot of fruit, some coffee, earthiness. Acidity on the low side for my liking (medium-), medium tannins, medium+ finish. This missed some depth, bottle issue?
From 2,7 hectare vineyard, bottle 0329
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(2/2/2024)
[Tasted blind] Unmistakably Northern Rhone Syrah with the pepper (now I did get it!), meaty, bacon, olives, black fruit. Medium+ acidity, high tannins, medium+ finish. Will benefit from 5-7 years of cellaring
Unknown producer for me, worth seeking out
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(2/2/2024)
This was unfortunately flawed. There was a debate whether it was corked or not
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(2/2/2024)
One of the last bottles of the night, did not get the attention it deserved. Very elegant with brioche, citrus, minerality, nectarine. Very long finish. Dogorgement april 2020
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(2/2/2024)
Although this was a bonus bottle in the line up, it was the WOTN for me. The gorgeously balanced sweetness (100 g/l RS) with the bracingly high (almost H+) acidity, complemented by the great aroma’s and flavors (lime, peach, kardemom) and the never-ending finish, just made it marvelous. No real signs of development yet, this has many decades to go. Happy to have 5 more in the cellar!
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NV Jacques Selosse Initial 94 Points
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Just as great as my previous experience with this cuvee. Deep golden in color, with medium+ intensity with honey, nutty, brioche, dried yellow apple, oxidative, flint, fire stone. Medium+ acidity, long finish. 94-95+
Degorgement: 16/3/‘22. Dosage 2,5 g/l
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2018 Adrien Dhondt Champagne Grand Cru Les Coullemets Le Mesnil-sur-Oger 93 Points
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
(2/1/2024)
[Tasted blind] Tasted alongside with the Initial from Selosse. Not as broad and rich (and oxidative) as the Selosse, much leaner and elegant, very good in its own way. Yeasty, brioche, citrus, nutty. Medium+ acidity, long finish 92-94
2655 bottles produced (BdB), dosage 1,5 g/l, degorgement 2/‘23
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