5/31/2010 - THT wrote:

Robe claire, mais un peu plus dorée que le reste de la gamme. Le nez est sur les fruits jaunes, avec des notes d'agrumes mûrs. La bouche est à l'unisson, plus grasse et ronde que les 2005 ou 2007, très riche, avec néanmoins la colonne vertébrale acide qui l'empêche de tomber dans la mollesse. Plus sexy, mais un peu moins à mon goût personnel des vins très tendus.

2/8/2014 - honest bob wrote:

From 75cl, rough cork. No. Sorry. I disagree. Everyone else here seems to be crazy about this wine, but this is the second bottle I have tried, and both were no fun at all. The pear-drop, boiled-sweet scent is (cloyingly) nice enough, but the taste is simply unpleasant. ("Ah, the ignorant pleb! Pah! He wants his wine to taste 'pleasant'! I spit on his stupid bourgeois taste!") It is at once quite sweet (on a level with a German Kabinett) but more sugary than grapey (come on, this claims to be "sec?"), strongly acidic, and bitter. The bitterness dominates on the mid-palate, which develops like chewing on the skin of a vegetable (potato skins?) which has evolved bitter nastiness in its outer layers over the millenia as a strategy to avoid getting eaten by homo sapiens. I see that John Gilman gives a drinking window STARTING in 2020 (and lasting until 2075 by when I shall undoubtedly be a lot more dead than this wine). So even though I think it is a real dodo tonight, I'm giving 86P(?) in the hope that I live long enough to see my other bottle develop into something... pleasant.