Community Tasting Notes 8

• Paul S wrote: 92 points

  September 15, 2013 - Asher's 1st Birthday (Alex's place): Lovely stuff - this bottle really was a return to form. I liked the nose here - this was classic Chassagne with its aromas of fleshy white fruit and melons, sweet nectar and honeysuckle flowers, all underlined with a little chalky mineral notes. Very nice. The palate was very much a reflection of the warm 2009 vintage. Round, ripe, almost- Meursault-like in its creamy texture, it showed sweet notes of ripe apples touched with a nice honeyed tone. This actually seemed rather developed for such a young wine. However, what was really impressive was how it still kept a nice sense of structure and focus, with a fresh balance and a good bit of minerality underlying its ripe fleshiness. At the moment, there was nothing absolutely complex about this, but boy was it delicious. Nice backpalate too, with bits of chalk, spice and honey drifting into a long finish. Very nice now - this seems to be one for drinking relatively young. It does have the bones to age for at least the next few years though.

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• Roughl wrote: 90 points

  July 30, 2013 - Clearly 09, forward, ripe, but indeed with freshness. Ripe and balanced. This was very good, but i have tasted more convincing chardonnay at this pricepoint and i don t see this ageing well. I d love to taste amiot in less ripe vintages

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• Alex H wrote: 87 points

  May 4, 2013 - Orange blossoms with lime and fresh wafers. More mineral.

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• Paul S wrote: 91 points

  April 26, 2013 - My Birthday Celebration (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): I had forgotten having had this wine before. While still good, I was not quite as impressed with this bottle as I was with the last. I thought the nose was very symptomatic of Chassagne in a warm year, but pretty nice, with hints of tropical fruit alongside with cream and chamomile flowers with just the smallest suggestion of honey. The palate had a rather rich creamy, chalky texture, with a lot more honeyed Chassagne notes than on the nose floating around a core of apple fruit shading into sweeter flavours of peach and ripe pear on the midpalate. This was still relatively crisp for a 2009, with a nice bit of juicy acidity, but it somehow seemed to have lost a bit of the cut and focus that I really liked from the last bottle, especially towards the finish, which drifted away rather unconvincingly with flecks of spice and a little mineral. Storage or transport issues maybe, but while this was still a really nice wine, it was not the superb 1er Cru that I remembered from the last time.

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• Mingmong wrote: 92 points

  March 7, 2012 - Grapefruit, orange blossoms and sappy nose. Oily and fatty, ripe citrus fruits and well balanced acidity, chewy asparagus, honeysuckle and guava on the middle. Big fresh finish. Firm structure along with vibrant ripe fruitiness. Good potential.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type White
• Producer Domaine Amiot Guy et Fils
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Les Caillerets
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru

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