4/25/2024 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Pnp
Brused plum, marcipan, camomille tartness, very Chenin. Ok I can see why one call out oxididised, but as I have come to taste, its more a character of the varity, area and style of the winemaker. Stating the obious, but I have come across a few lately that can be given the characteristic of ox flabbiness.
Coming to the point this has a beautiful acidity that keeps it fresh and the ripe mature apperance is balanced out. This tension is apparent from the nose out.
Gode greier (good stuff)

3/10/2024 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Captivating scents of purple flowers and a lift of mint leaves. Nice nose right from the get got. Bit hollow middle, cathes up with a good grip at the end. The non Gaby cuve 15 also spoke in similair vein.

2/19/2024 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Nice juice. Gentle, clean stroke with sour cherries.

2/6/2024 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Voluptuous stuff, still transparent in a lush sense. Like a east bank Bordeaux, but a bit short day one. Eucalyptus and dark ripe generous cherries.
Day two still showing of lenghtening out.
The volcanic Cote du Py is nowherre to be seen, but give it up and enjoy it with junkfood and good company when the weekend comes around.
If you have the patience, it finishes of more complex with leather more developong spices emerging from the eucalyptus

2/3/2024 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Nice energy with a bit reduction together with the completely dry, bitter, big pile of fruit stones, salty. Not any oil on the palate. Very restricted Chenin, still subtile balanced and interesting all through

1/7/2024 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Had with «pinnekjøtt» traditional lamb dried in salt. Worked well with the salty food, rich and heavy, with low acidity, almost like a viognier, but not with the same florality naturally. A bit of the typical Chenin flavours. Packed in a bit of residual sugar, wich was 10grams, contributing to its richness, but furthers put it of balance.

1/7/2024 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Beautiful fruit forward nose, with hanging black scents (leather/olive/pepper) not very long but impressive nose and coherent on the palate. My best Colombier i think. I have had some 2017s lately, and they have been in the same vein, but less fragrant

1/6/2024 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Natural wine makes a narrow sweetspot.
Looks developed but tastes structured at first. At the nose barnyard, tart, but gives way to a good juice after a hour. VA dominant day two. Other bottles have shown better

12/31/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Nice bottle. Showing well from pnp. Coherent, smell of ochards, marcipan, some harder spicy notes, almost like water with gas, you can sense that the acidity awaits you. On the palate its quite ripe, honeymelon. Some bitter underipe plum, quickly followed by a basket of lime. The basket is turned upside down quite early on my palate and is long lasting. Finishes on your teeth, sorry enamels.

Suprisingly ripe for the producer and the vintage, but as would have expected the acidity is higher than most, but this its also riper than Litus from Eirik Morgot in same vintage.

Its better on day one than two. Day two the acidity hardens up a bit and you dont get the same balance

12/28/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Barnyard at pnp. This needs 3h in a decanter at the moment. Then really good, fragrant morgon, with dusty iron, cranberry, not to tart, mananges a warm vintage very well. Opened to early

12/26/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Growing
Second try. Last years bottle had awkward fruit. This is showing really nice. A bit compact, coherent all through.
Ripe, and fruit forward, orchards and ginger up in the citrus mix, and the acididy keep balance in place over expousure to air and different temperature.

12/23/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Held up nice over two nights. Expressive floral and Cabernet spices in front, well integrated in the boysenberry fruit on the palate. Could have food at this point. My third Joguet this year. This comes up second with the 2014 Diotorie ahead on structural elegance and the 2015 Varennes third.

12/23/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Really enjoyable. Rich and fresh, with a lime squish, like a dash of riesling in the premier cru Burgundy.

12/16/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Developed nose very expressive right from pnp. Golden yellow, figs, marcipan, also acidity with chamollie and lime. Rich on the palate, honey nectar, some wood, not like vanilla or new oak, but litterary. Lingers well.
Day two this is very developed, Oxidated flor style form Jura clearly comes to mind, Chenin flor.
This bottle must be a but of. I’ll have to check another bottle soon.

12/10/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Diam 30 closure, stupidly heavy bottle at 766gr.
Fine fragrant form straight from pnp.
High pitched floral and cherrie tones, with a spice lift, some iron. Light on the palate. Works its way through the 14% with ease. Best on day one. Ready to go. Funny with associations leaning on several other districts I come by more often, with Beaujolais, a bit of Loire Cabernet franc, some Etna. Does well in comparison.

12/2/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Brief note: Muted from pnp. Needed 30 min and then came around very nicely with more and more weight adding up. Super clean and delicate in a warm vintage. Little oak, transparent, linear with a lemon drive .

11/25/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Mosel fine wine said it with pedigree.
My only addition is that it opens with quite a bit of natural winemaking aromas covering over the riesling. Day three, last glass they have vanished, with still a balanced wine holding up. Engaging wine

11/25/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Pleasant, gently made Cornas. Still has some iron vein of rhoneblood running through. Finishes of with balance on the second day

11/25/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Notes from day one
Suprisingly soft with pleasant stonefruit of peach and yellow plum. Rich, but not dull, leaves some extract on the tounge. Happy that this was not hiding

Flattened out a bit on day two, and increasingly weird fruittones. Doesn’t have the nerve to it that I come to expect from Lauer, probably a sign of the vintage

11/21/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Perfect on Tuesday with 11.5%

Carefully made, very light and somewhat short, clearly a cooler year, nevertheless not a problematic frame, and good concentration on the nose. Reminds me of Sussucaro to Cornelissen, (or a lightly extracted Beaujolais, type Breton or Thévenet).
I get what i call dusty terracotta, which I think comes from volcanic fields. So they had one called Vulkan and have read that Baden also has soil for it. A very competent friend of mine called it iron, I shurly can tune into that.

A little acid over tannins in the finish, also how I think Breton usually behaves.

Surprisingly good, and nice complexity on the nose. I don't generally associate wine with fruit, but Iwill go for easily underripe strawberries if I allow myself to be pressured.

Day 2, developes well. First some greener notes. Some tighter ephemeral qualities are lost, but still vibrant, more mature field strawberries, deliveres a good punch, quite an achivement from its concentration

From 89 to 91

11/19/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Smack! Not the elegant one, but lots of stuffing with rich, mild peppery and camomille, overripe apple, fair balance, with just about enough acidity to carry the weight.
Nothing done wrong, and concentration is quality, but concentration of what?
In a sense, it’s unfair to criticize it for not beeing lighter boned and carrying more top fruit. Had I had both muscles and elegance, it would have been up there in burgundy heaven.

11/5/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Reductive and vibrant out of the bottle. Light and fresh. A green herbal tone, also an aromatic sweetness that some thought came from wood, but reading into Winedoctor.com this sees mainly fiber glass tanks. Third day, very good length, still fresh and light on its feet, high pitched scents of chamomile an kaffir lime, wow!

11/5/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Golden hue. Shows well the first sip, but coils up the first night, aromatically. The first night it was more about the acidic length and richness on the finish, with honey and chamomille.
Having had his 15, 16 & 20 Bel Ouvrage before, I think Damien Laureau always manage to balance his Bel Ouvrage and get nice accessible sweetness without losing tension, but this was the less giving from pnp.

Finished day three: Rich honey, honey melon, yellow brown (turmeric) spice, also chamomille. Broad, but lands well with kaffir lime freshness to the acidity.

10/28/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Dark and brooding as Audun wrote. Quite awkward at pnp, with a sour bite when served at cellar temperature. Second day much better with clean dark fruit signing through, holding up well, still grippy but very fine tannins. Hold

10/22/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Young from the pnp. Ageing effordlesly. Fresh purple fruit with some honey and mint.
Really juicy on the palate, not deep, bit short on the fruit, but showing length with fine tannins.

10/20/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Dark rich and fresh. Peppery spices, thyme and alcohol up front on the nose. Dusty and balsamic on the palate, broadens out well. Some savoury cherry notes. Quite a structure, not a fruity one, but showing really well tonight.
Again another serious Beaujolais that kicks the Occidental freestone (in the same vintage) of it’s feet easily

10/16/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

What a great bottle of wine.

First day the nose has quite some petroleum, third day the nose is all honey, the petroleum is going quite yellow, date I say kerosene.

First day the palate is lively, handeled a pannang curry really well. A bit qliche but the heat and sweetness of the dish was intesified greatly by the wine, felt risky but landed well. Intens balance of sweetness and acidity. Third day more mellow, honey melon, yellow apple, apple jam.

10/16/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Brass yellow. Peach with alcohol. Ripe mango. Rich on the palate, some more baked plum and more peach. Some spices ala coriander seed. Finishes on alcohol rather than acid. Best quite chilled. Tried to match it with food that complemented, chanterelle gnocchi day one, and white pizza day three. This reminds me in the broader sense more of an begian trappist beer than another wine.

10/10/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Really fresh, took its 8 first years with ease. Blackcurrant leaves; typical vegetative Cabernet franc spices on the pnp. First sip goes over to a beautiful fruit without including tannins. Tannins make themselves apparant during the rest of the bottle. Vibrant and top heavy in the most youthful manner. I will give the two remaining bottles more time. Maybe the fruit will be broadening out

10/10/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Writing this up without reading my previous note.
On a pnp, this is less flabby than I remembered the previous bottle. So coherent I choose to describe both colour, nose and palate together: Yellow green hue and fruit resemblances. Rich, honey, honey melon giving away to coriander spice. Long, ending on a more refined citrus note. Really excellent

10/5/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Dense purple black hue. Interesting nose of brown spices of cinnamon, cocoa, typical meat, black olives, not much fruit. On the palate more brown spices, a sweetness at first but more towards lingonberries, quite short, more tar, than tannins. Top heavy, the alcohol pushes through from the start. As three hour passes, it picks up and connects on the palate. Quite a package, not the most delicate, but quite a bit to unfold. Day 2 it folds out a bit on the palate with smoked fruit and coffee

9/25/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Right at it from the get go with rich citrus, with classic Chenin green-brown spices of chamomille alike and green-yellow acid of lime & kaffir-lime. Follows up the nose with a broad oily palate, ending on a bit of acid and the same Chenin spices from the nose together with a honey scent. This is just lovely Loire nectar.
I love opening this cuvee over the last years, having had hard times with many coiled up Chenins recently from producers with even better reputation. Hard to let this rest, and I would be glad to let more slip into the cellar before other tilts out.
Third day last half or so: less nuanced like a sofa without all it spitz. Honey scents in the glass, rich riesling kaffir-lime, palate worthy of a burgound twice the price, goseberry

Chidaine is the nearest producer that comes to mind, but this is richer, more pronounced. What a fruit forward Savinnieres. Great intro to Chenin of the Loires. Cudos Damien in the difficulty of the first pandemic year.

9/22/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Bricking development in colour.
Mint, pepper, orange in madeira scent bursting through on the nose. A finished glass captivating with honey, flower and bright orange fruit, so up there on intensity.
Palate continues developed, there is some fresh fruit to be had, but lets say a association like honey preserved orange dominating the palate. Punishing tannins at the end, and some wood in the aftertaste.
One non wino-friend had a taste at the first glass pnp, and said it was the driest wine he had encountered, starting to asking about wood and wine. Last bottle I opened two years ago I rememered as dry dry dry. Not shure if this will hit a pleasing balance with the fruit so developed and the tannins still firing so hard.

Day 2: Notes of marcipan, almond, orange liquer, aceton, really lively scents from the rim. Continues light and developed on on the palate, tannins are more integrated and finish is softer and shorter. A much more coherent experience. Up to 91 from 88.

A clear hold, my last two bottles is firmly tucked away for the next five years or so.

9/18/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Bright red fruit, sweet, oak, rather polished. Reading that it sees large untoasted oak, Austrian bottis of 3000 liters. Day 3 gathering depth on the nose, aceton, more balsamic but holds up fine. Not very long acidic finish, rather a fine resolution grip of nebbiolo.
Tasted along with Roddolo Barolo Ravera 2012, tough company.

9/17/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Approachable day one, pnp. House funk which I have recognised across his range over the last year.
Day 3, last glass, beautiful sniff, house funk reclined. Floral, jumps out of the glass, deep purple flowers, some tar, aceton & pepper. Bit more grained on the palate than day one naturally. Cool, no heat.
Lively and in a good phase, complexity one upside, but one heck of a vibrancy currently.
Tasted beside the La Ca’ nova montestefano 2019.

9/8/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Really fragrant with herbal and spice on the nose, lavendel, apperance of mineral rather than fruit.
Plum in madeira (alcohol on the nose)
Palate Green, getting the bellpepper, but also like coriander seeds on the aftertaste. Persistent, and consistent wine.

Late update, stayed quite green through the bottle day 3. I read my older tasting note wich states that this is not green. Seems a bit odd, that it has a vegetative phase...

8/7/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Lovely right from a chilled bottle, pnp, fresh spicy, with the producer elegantly in the background. Non of that forced semi-carbonic cherrio candy. Day three still pretty on the nose; mild spices, dusty. Kicks an recently tasted Occidental easily right of its feet.

7/13/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Not much resistance, but beautiful fragrant from the get go, with mellow purple fruit, wood ok integrated, and a pleasure sloshing about.
The smooth and coherent showing makes me glad I took the chance a bit early. I have had positive experiences with cracking 2018 over 2019 in the lower segment of Burgundy, but stepping up a notch this delivered, and were still right in place day 2.

7/13/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

First year they were able to make the cuve, and then only one barrel.
Thank you Mosel Fine Wines for the recommendation.
Great balance when pnp. The second day the petroleum took charge. Third day and the wine is still all up and about, great concentration, warmth, oil, petroleum which also mixes up with the acidity, coming down as a positvie thing for me, although it dominates.
On the palate; Wide, green yellow acidity, and also mild spices,
Long, both peaches and lime, so a really good balance.
Good wine for the long haul, but dancing around now as well. Last sips of the bottle on the third day the wine left the petroleum behind, some development!
Naturally to think of it as a food wine, with the broad nature more in line with the pradikat tradition than bone dry GGs. Well judged bit of residual sugar. It´s a meal in itself.

7/13/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Popped a hour in advance.
Sweet and light on the nose, peach, but refreshing at the same time, say grapefruit. My wife said fresh summer potetoes with resonnates well.
Salty, a bit short on the finish for now, as this note.
Picked up in the hour in glass we tasted it.

7/7/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Clear purple colour.
Clean nose. Peony, red gooseberries.
Still pretty on the palate ending on well integrated greeness (pyrazines i guess), good length
Second day alright!; it picks up even more (two points added) with an elegant purple nose with good intensity, slight alcohol, and persistent fine grained tannins, greeness all in, some balsamic aftertones.
I had a Baudry 2017 Grezeaux last week, quite a contrast, way coarser and dirtier than this nice behaving beauty.

6/24/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

From magnum. Diam clossure.
Remember I read about 2012 being a challenging year in Jura, but this you can pull with confidence.
Enjoyed outside in the garden.
Classique Jura nose , with a green white almost salty note, more prononced from the get go pnp, as the other element waits in line so to speak. No flor or natural winemaking stands in the way.
Broad, fills out well with a warm apple peach fruitpai on the palate, and finishes of with an acidic tounge. Best on the first day.

6/21/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Bought on auction last year for 30-40 €.
Consist mainly of grenache, with some syrah and mourverdre. Sees fairly new oak. But its well integreres at this point.
Needs only about 15 mins to open up. Cool restrained pleasure, not from fruit aromas, but with the drive coming from garrigue: the big sprinklers of dried provencial spices.
Notes from the second day: nose of thyme, juniper, smoke, plum in madeira. Smooth palate with dusty tannins and thimian, lets stick to a rellaxed fruit referance with plum. Lenght increases with time out in the air

6/15/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Seriously delicious. Haribo for adults. Have not gone for this entry cuvee earlier years, but this is the third already of the 2022. Pnp its all flowers, focused, mineral tickle. But opening the last half of the bottle now 4 days later, wow! Rich nose with sour yellow green spice note, consistent over to the palate, candied melon, salt, over to the usual riesling suspect of kefir lime. Quite long, great concentration for a village.

Had the JJ kabinett 21 at a restaurant a month a go that did not engage, but maybe with more air as well..

6/9/2023 - andrei trolldeig wrote:

Rich, balanced, last of two. Remembered the last one as more colied up. This is a fairly mellow riesling, some spices with camomille, broad sweetness not sugar at the end, but at the initial palate, with a very nice bridge over to citrus-fruits with lime zest with percictence

6/7/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

This is another breed than the 2016 I had earlier this year, wich I felt was quite uptight from the get go. This specimen gives away quite a nose with fennel, bit alcohol, and a greener spicenote, also kefir lime. Rich althougt the associations doesn´t go toward fruit aromas, on the palate its oppulent, oily, more green and not warm, fennil again, some baked lime (not that I have tasted it) good covering acidity , bit alcohol, it says 13,8.

Hands up for Chenin blanc; got to love the drive, and so coherent, both nose and on the palate, but still so weird, and contradictory with the liniar green, herbal notes, together with the oppulent richness of what I can experience to be the factor of vintage, having had the sharp 2016 recently

4/14/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

More reserved than one I had last year.
Takes til day three to get fruit on the nose, before i like to describe it as black, mineral, herbal coriander seeds, with air: camomille, grapefruit, bitter peach (peach without sweetness),
On the palate: coiled up acidic tension, (on day three) camomille, mild pepper, mellow green yellow, great acidity lasting three or four smacks

4/13/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Some medical elements, mint, leather, not high pitched, but mid toned
Clean cheeries at the end, together with fine pottery tannins. Managed good amounts of air. Recommended as an early accesible Cornas by Sir John Livingstone-Learmounth

4/1/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

Opens up nicely with an hour decant, and the second half of the bottle at day two. Dense purple. A bit of mint, varnish on the nose. The palate is the best part in my regards. Consentrated with typical purple fruit and a llight peppered palate, gives room to grainy tannins. Leaves on a minty note, with a savoiry smack as an aftertaste. Coherent. Best one so far.

3/22/2023 - andrei trolldeig Likes this wine:

I had my share of wines forcefully made in the natural heaven of Beaujolais. But this drinks very well in all its cleaness. On the third day, so coherent, rich warm, pepper, acid and a fair amounts of tannins finishes this of.