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• Tony Ling Likes this wine: 95 points

  June 24, 2022 - PNP into Zalto Universal glass (“Fruit” day): Medium golden to the eyes.
  
  First pour impressions: Lemon oil and golden grapefruits with peels and oils. Deep vegetal notes that is like a backward version of the classic green bell peppery notes. Superbly minerality like liquid stone on the nose.
  
  Still backwards on palate but heavily driven by minerality. Great balanced acidity. Satisfying finish but takes time.
  
  94-95 points easy.
  
  Second pour, 30 minutes upon opening with time in glass: lots more exotic fruits like pineapples.
  
  Third pour, 1 hour upon opening: Falling back a little with more white spices.
  
  Final pour, 2 hours upon opening: Golden apple and quince notes. Very subtle and complex minty notes.

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• scamhi wrote: flawed

  July 4, 2021 - Shit...Maderized!

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• Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 30, 2021 - Nice very fruity nose with lots of grapefruit
  
  The palate is pure but dense at the same time. A lot of energy in the wine brought by a tension which does not alter the balance of the wine in particular thanks to a beautiful substance. It's rich, crystalline and tense at the same time. It just lacks a little relief, because the wine remains very compact. The finish is especially felt, sensation of a wine somewhat constricted for the moment
  
  Very good, but deserves to be waited for so that it takes volume.

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• William Kelley Likes this wine: 93 points

  July 9, 2020 - After an introverted and even austere adolescence, Vatan's 2011 Sancerre Clos la Néore is just beginning to drink really well, opening in the glass with classic aromas of gooseberry, citrus oil, crushed chalk, rock salt and a delicate top-note of petrol. Medium to full-bodied, muscular and textural, with an incisive spine of acidity, prodigious levels of chalky dry extract, and a searingly mineral finish, it will be even better in five more years.

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• Derek Darth Taster wrote: 93 points

  July 30, 2019 - Another smashing good lunch session at Tippling Club. Poured from bottle slowly over 3 hours. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, lemon yellow colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of flint, wet saline stones minerality, green peas, deep citrus lemon. Soky gunflint as it warms up with more air. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (14%), medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of deep citrus lemon-lime, touch of green pea and green mint leaf, flint, wet stones minerality. Smoke and honey with more air. Long slow burn finish.
  Very good quality Sauvignon Blanc that seems to have the necessary for long ageing. But at the asking price? - really more for education than for real enjoyment, unless your pockets are deep. Francois Cotat's stuff offers a lot more QPR.
  Clos La Neore is a parcel within the Mont Damnes vineyard in Sancerre.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Edmond Vatan
• Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Clos la Néore
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Upper Loire
• Appellation Sancerre

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• In Cellars 316 (65%)
• Consumed 170 (35%)

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