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CSteefel Likes this wine: 93 points
January 10, 2021 - Now a perfect bottle, but perhaps still aging a bit faster than the Old Boys might be expecting it to (I keep hearing references to 20 year old Chenin). On the nose, notes of honeysuckle and mint, while in the mouth this has developed a more honeyed note on the front end which transitions to ripe apple on the finish. Reflecting perhaps the warm year in 2016, this verges on unctuous in the mouth, coating the mid-palate with honeyed herbal extract enlivened by healthy acidity as the inner mouth perfume slowly evolves.
Presumably because of the modest bottle age and the warm year, this Le Mont comes across a bit more like the Huet Clos du Bourg in a good year (e.g., 2019). In other words, some of the characteristic stoniness and linearity of the Le Mont (reflecting the Silex soil) has given way to a broader, more expansive herbal/floral character that, tasted blind, might call the CdB to mind...3 people found this helpful 2,511 views