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• UpfromtheCellar wrote: 87 points

  August 5, 2022 - There's a lot to like about this wine - if you want a white wine you can sock away in your cellar for 10+ years, (and don't have to pay too much for the privilege!) and be pretty sure it won't come out tasting nasty or sherry like, this is a good choice. There's still a tight lemon and mineral focused pour waiting for you at the end.
  
  Unfortunately, after waiting for 10+ years one hopes that something slightly "more magical" will emerge, rather than a vinous "placeholder".....

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• UpfromtheCellar wrote: 88 points

  August 2, 2021 - Continues to evolve sloooooowly. Florals on the nose, tight lemon on the palate. Last tasted towards the end of 2020 and I vowed to wait another 5 years. I should listen to myself more often.

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• UpfromtheCellar wrote: 87 points

  November 28, 2020 - When I purchased this wine the recommendation was to hold it until 2020-2025!
  
  As 2020 is coming to a close, I found this bottle still lemony tight, with a strong streak of minerality but no flesh on the bones (so to speak). I had opened a Muscadet recently with similar age and it was beginning to round and fill in, as I hoped this would too. But no such "luck". Its not that the wine was bad or fading or falling apart. Just seemed "un-evolved" and showing no particular direction. Paired nicely with our dinner but disappointing all the same. Previously tasted in 2013.
  
  Guess I will have to wait until 2025.

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• kdubler wrote:

  July 21, 2020 - FWS Bordeaux and Southwest tasting 2020; 7/21/2020-7/22/2020: Last bottle I drank of this was in 2016 and I pronounced it dead.
  
  Tonight's bottle was very different and very much alive. High acidity with a beautiful perfumed nose. This also showed its age and somehow pulled off having great acid and a heavy body. Was truly lovely and wish I had more.
  
  I never would have guessed an $11 bottle just needed 9 years to settle down.

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• John Nezlek wrote: 86 points

  November 21, 2019 - Note: I use a scale on which 85 represents a very good wine.
  
  No drama here, but also no problems. This was a straightforward entry-level white Bordeaux, no more, no less. Good acidity with some fruit to balance. Easy drinking.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Château Pré La Lande
• Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
• Designation Blanc
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Bordeaux

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• Consumed 280 (74%)

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