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• Outplaying Likes this wine:

  May 13, 2023 - Similar impressions as Rieslinghoarder. Very enjoyable out on the patio on a warm spring evening, and not that dissimilar from the Vocoret Vaillion Chablis we had along with it.
  
  Interestingly, the label says this is from the Durant vineyard. Anyone know why it wasn’t bottled as Durant? Perhaps Marcus didn’t feel it was up to that level?

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• cyc commented:

  5/13/23, 7:33 AM - Usually it is declassified like that because it contains more press wine than the regular Durant bottling. I’m not 100% sure because I can’t find the release email for this one.

• getfuzzy commented:

  5/13/23, 5:41 PM - For Pinot Noir there would be more press wine, but the Chardonnay is all press juice. In 2018 and 2019 the puncheons in the vineyard designate had quite a bit of finesse, and so I declassified anything that obscured that. The wines that went in the DH bottling were probably better than an AVA level, especially based on the way they have been tasting, but hindsight is 20/20…

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