October 2, 2020 - Relaxed Wine evening with great Pizza (Restaurant Holz und Feuer, Kirchheim, Germany): Glass: Sophienwald
Tasted blind. Clear, medium amber color. We should have decanted the wine. At first some oxidized notes in the nose that went away with some time.
I would still consider this wine a bit past peak, but with air it showed a glimpse of what a GC could be. Lacks a bit of depth and tension of a real great Montrachet, but still a very good experience. Drink up soon. 91-92
October 26, 2016 - Second bottle of my case of 6. It was initially fat and one dimensional. It took the wine 2 hours to open up. Firing on all cylinders with pineapple, salty minerals, and ripe yellow fruit. Very good weight and punch on the palate. Still ridiculously young. At least 10-15 years left.
August 24, 2016 - Rich and mature baked apple, floral notes and sweet spice. Powerful and intensely concentrated' almost unctuous. Opened and expanded over the first 15-30 minutes in glass, then started shortening after in glass an hour+. Very good now, an excellent 1997 white.
March 6, 2016 - Opened in 3+ hrs and lasted for 3+ hrs. Another great Jadot Demoiselles. Will last for another 5 yrs and may be 10 yrs.
November 17, 2015 - Slow oxed for 3 hours. Nose had abundant ripe yellow fruit, cake, caramel and lemon oil. The palate had weight and intensity. An elegant wine with the power and finesse. The yellow fruit on the palate was lovely. It has the acidity to age for at least 5-7 more years.
February 7, 2013 - disappointing, color and nose didn't suggest premox but this was flat, no bright acid that this wine can deliver, and palate was some minerals and oak but fruit largely missing... off bottle or just a bad vintage... i suspect the later
December 25, 2012 - The crime with this wine would be to pop and pour it in a hurry with other wines. Bright, yellow gold colour. Nose is initially reticent for the first few hours: deep-toned notes of aged oak, crystallized lemon, apricot, fresh dates, creme brulee.... quite complex. Then develops a honeyed elegance that remains understated in its elegance but increasingly assertive. Palate is sharp bright acidic attack followed by apricot stones, peach stones and a finish of the inside of a banana skin then fresh mandarin oranges with the pith left on. Good long-lingering very honeyed but light aftertaste but short on resonance in the head at first. Overall, a bit dilute for what you'd expect in a Chevalier Montrachet. But....WOW......after 2-8 hours in the decanter it had blossomed into a beautiful honeyed elegance and finesse of textbook Chevalier Montrachet.
It went incredibly well drank sippingly before, with and after a beautiful Christmas Day small, French farm-raised organic Turkey and all the traditional trimmings......Happy Christmas!
March 28, 2012 - The Jadot Chevalier Montrachet « Les Demoiselles » was still youthful showing plenty of aroma, with scents of butter, cream and oak spice from the winemaking dominating. Good palate with a richly creamy texture, lots of extract, and good length. Should develop well.
January 21, 2012 - Chú Xī (除夕) Dinner at Home on Chinese New Year Eve (Our Place, Hong Kong): Apricot-gold colour...very deep gold. Deep, bass-toned nose: ripe but sharp apricots and apricot stone, an almost botrytis-like element. Palate is deep rich honeyed but taut apricot and a good acidic frame and burnished bronze tautness followed by a big slowly evolving resonance with a the same metallic zing. Almonds....definitely an almondy metallic zing comes out with time in the glass Very heady and gains enormously in weight and presence as it warms up towards cool room temperature. Very enjoyable but not as multi-dimensional as I'd have expected.