Community Tasting Note

• Paul S wrote: 92 points

  September 15, 2013 - Asher's 1st Birthday (Alex's place): This was really unusual: a 23 year-old Macon - ripe, fruity and really quite delicious. The nose could well be from Alsace rather than Burgundy, with rich aromas of ripe mangoes and brown apples, along with lots of toasty honey and winter melon notes and a floral, chrysanthenum accent. Rather alluring. The palate was rather leaner than the palate promised and showed very matured, even old notes of sultanas, browned apples and honeyed, dried fruit tones. This was super-ripe, so that it was almost seemed off-dry. Everything was still in pretty good balance though, so that the wine managed to come together in a really quite delicious package. So different from anything I would have expected, and almost impossible to guess blind, but this was actually very enjoyable.

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• Pontifax commented:

  1/5/21, 11:35 AM - PAUL S....I saw both of your reviews from Nov and Sept 2013 for this '90 Bongrans ( Thevenet)
  Well....the same holds true for the much younger 2017 Vire Clesse Quintaine ( Thevenet) !
  A very singular expression of Burgundian chardonnay , that can indeed be confused with an older Alsace Pinot Blanc....could fool any blind taster....several years back(2010?) I had a bottle of the 2002 Bongrans.....singular notes of stony mineral , bolstered by bitter orange peel, butter and smoke notes....half our table loved it , the other 3 hated it...lol....a wine of controversy...
  Cheers, PONTIFAX

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