Community Tasting Note

• kostaslonis Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 31, 2014 - 2nd Gastronomy Fair 2014; 3/30/2014-3/31/2014 (Intercontinental Hotel): 30% of the wine spent 6 months in new oak
  
  Clear deep lemon color.
  Clean, med intensity, citrus, pineapple, vanilla scented oak, developing, impressive.
  The wine is dry, med+ body and med intensity, med alcohol and acidity, rich and oily texture, tin pineapple, ripe peach, glycerin, balanced, med+ finish.
  Outstanding quality, premium price, can hold.
  
  Just to explain myself to Yiannis before he cuts my throat, the wine is great, different, shows real complexity and I would have it any day, but the price tag is huge (a retail price of about 70+ euros) and for a 2010 "big" white, it sure felt more evolved than expected.

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• Yiannis commented:

  4/23/14, 6:54 AM - 1. I agree with you that the wine is evolved and I mention this in my t.n. where I wrote that I detected purposeful oxidation. That being said, this is its character and I believe that it will not develop fast over the next years.
  2. Price in Italy is in the 35-45 euros range. The rest is about the importer's pricing policy.
  3. Your 90 is in general analogous to my 94 so no real debate here. My scores are more inflated than yours and that's all
  4. No intention to cut your throat anyway
  5. I noticed that my t.n. on Tyrrell's Vat 1 Semillon 1998 is included in your own t.n. Thanks.

• kostaslonis commented:

  4/23/14, 7:46 AM - Yes, sorry about that. I noticed you had tasted the exact same bottle, I pressume only a day later, so I copy-pasted it when I was writing to compare it to my own. Did not intend to post it like this without asking you first. But I decided to do a massive upload / clearing up, last night/early morning and tired as I was, I forgot to erase it. Apologies and tasted note corrected.

• Yiannis commented:

  4/23/14, 8:01 AM - No, it's ok, if you agree with my note just keep it as it is

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