Community Tasting Note

• CSteefel wrote: 91 points

  September 2, 2008 - We finished reorganizing my cellar, so it was time for a modest celebration. We started with a 2006 Vincent Dauvissat Chablis la Forest. This wine is normally about as reliable as any out there today and the 2006 was no exception. Pale yellow, with plenty of mineral-laden citrus notes on the nose and a powerful presence on the palate, its only real problem at this point is its age (or lack of it) I think—the delineation and clarity is not quite there yet, as if a low level of white noise was blurring things on the palate. Tasted by itself, one might have dismissed these impressions, but followed by a 2000 Fevre Bougros Côtes des Bouguerots, its relative youth and perhaps its 1er cru status were apparent. Still, should be quite good in five to eight years…

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