This was a pretty damn compelling wine, right from being opened all the way to a few hours in. I really enjoyed the freshness here, and there was more of a perfumed, acid-driven (at least, relatively speaking) lift. Obviously plenty of chamomile notes. With more air, more of the minerality emerged -- it feels like it got pulled taut. The nose developed a mild reductive quality, along with some white Burgundy hints. Impressive.

Slight mushroom accents to the chamomile on the nose here. This feels relatively mature, but with plenty of the same oily texture and character that all of these wines had. This was a little dirtier than the 1997 which I preferred, and showed a far darker colour than the older vintage as well, which was pretty interesting. The expected Joliette weight and complexity are there, but this just didn't perform at the same high level as the other wines.

Much fresher and well-cut versus the 1998. This was very clean, with a bit of a pineapple/chamomile thing on the nose. Much more in the vein of the 2007 than the 1998, despite the age difference. I liked the relative high acidity and lithe qualities on the palate here, but the flavour profile is unmistakably Joliette. There's still lots of that oily texture to go around here.

I really loved this edition. The sec versions all have this nose that seems to imply a sweet wine (but then end up being bone dry) but this has a similar nose and delivers on the sweetness. Of course, plenty of chamomile, and plenty of Joliette oiliness as well. I enjoyed the freshness and relative approachability of this.

The first time I had this wine at Noble Rot, I was utterly smitten by how different it was, and how it cured a jaded palate. This time, in context with the other Clos Joliette, I am seeing this more for what it is rather than colouring it through that lens. Nonetheless, this is a very compelling wine, and it drinks sweeter than the 2001 Moelleux in tonight's lineup. Oily, botrytis-laden, and thickly textured stuff. High alcohol but manages to hold its own well. Interesting phenolic bitterness helps balance those potentially cloying elements.

Crazy intense and heavy wine, with a thick oily texture, lots of chamomile and marmalade notes. Some very funky honeyed notes too (buckwheat, perhaps?). Almost intense to a fault, with severe bitterness providing the balancing elements. Indeed, this doesn't feel unbalanced or overly alcoholic, but it is a wine of impressive, Cronenberg proportions

What a very different beast from Clos Joliette. This is clearly a very modern-styled wine (in the sense that it's not a white wine cut from the cloth of the time when Château-Grillet, La Coulée de Serrant, Montrachet, et al. were considered the pinnacles of white wine). Lean, bright, and high acid, but not quite as aromatically distinctive as Clos Joliette. Good acidity and easy to enjoy as a light, mildly aromatic white.

Disgorged January 2022, 5 g/L dosage. 70% Harvest 2015. I don't know how much of my enjoyment of this was due to having such a refreshing wine after a lineup of petit manseng, but I do like the lean, mineral cut here without the wine feeling empty or hollow. And despite the high meunier content, this doesn't come off as funky or mushroomy either.

Wow. Absolutely incredible beer that tastes like the essence of white peach. Clean and balanced, with acidity that doesn't go overboard. I'm a huge fan of this.