Community Tasting Notes 5

• James Kim Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 19, 2024 - Golf color. Decanted. Now 2h after decant. Aromas of fresh and baked apples, sweet will, minerals, and herbs. Palate w tart and baked apples, a bit of nuts, way work, minerals and herbs. Full body with excellent acids. Nice depth and concentration. Nice finish of tart apples, minerals, and a bit of wool. Drinking nicely now and taking on some aged characteristics. At 2.5h, becomes nuttier but still retains is acidity and freshness. Nicely done in a difficult vintage. 92+

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• dagij Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 25, 2017 - Shows very well the capability for China Blanc to age without getting those oxidised tones. Bright, straw colour with hints of green. Intense aromas of ripe, red apples, wax, some honey and a lot of ripe sitrus. Full bodied, high acidity, slightly alcohol-burn on the tip of the tongue, immense concentration. Finished with a very long aftertaste dominated by citrus, wax, green apples and chalk minerals. As the wine opens, the aroma profile change to more white flowers and hazelnuts. Amazing wine.

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• Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 17, 2016 - Pop and poured. At B&B PP. Drank over 2.5 hours.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, lemon colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of sea salt saline minerality, white flowers, citrus lemon, and slight honey. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, good high acidity, medium alcohol (13%), medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of citrus lemon, pineapple, ripe peach, saline minerality, slight honey. Long finish.
  Very good quality. Excellent balance, remains elegant and quenchingly light on its feet despite the ripe fruit and emerging honey.
  I kind of regret opening this bottle. Should have held on for about 2-3 more years for more honey notes.
  Tasting blind, this would have felt like a minerally White Burg, but with more air just a little something reminds us this is Chenin Blanc after all.
  Absolutely zero oxidative notes here in this 5 year old, and doesn't feel like it is heading in that direction anytime soon. As Thierry Germain himself says: "A living wine doesn’t oxidise." Now this brings us back to the debate again whether oxidative elements in aged Chenin Blanc are part of the character or is it a wine fault? Time to drink more Chenin Blancs before concluding anything...
  Fermented for 2 months in 400-liter oval casks. After pressing the wines are raised for 9 months on the fine lees.
  Day 2 under vacuum seal: put on more weight on the body. With more obvious honey on both nose and palate. Pineapple. Minerality now takes a backseat.

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• christyler wrote:

  May 3, 2016 - Enjoyable, but didn't come across as Chenin. Very steely - like a 1er cru Chablis. Well made wine and a good showing from a difficult vintage.

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• sebastienjm wrote: 91 points

  January 1, 2014 - Je n'ai pas pris de notes. J'en ai un très bon souvenir, nez merveilleux et pureté en bouche. La rareté explique le prix (j'entends par là que l'Insolite constitue un meilleur rapport qualité prix)

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Domaine des Roches Neuves
• Varietal Chenin Blanc
• Designation Clos Romans
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Anjou-Saumur
• Appellation Saumur

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• Consumed 20 (74%)

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