Community Tasting Notes 7

• wgoelen Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 24, 2018 - Starts with a oxydative note, which disappears after 15 min. After that nice yellow fruit backed by sufficient acidity. I wouldn't hold this any longer.

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• kstoddard wrote: flawed

  November 15, 2017 - Off bottle

• djdaqm Likes this wine: 90 points

  July 12, 2017 - Straw colored, darker than expected. Dry, but full-bodied with a more unctuous mouth feel that reminded me of something from the Rhone, but with more acidity. Enjoyed for its uniqueness. Should probably be served on the cooler side.

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• oropeza Likes this wine: 89 points

  July 4, 2016 - Honey and beeswax with stone fruit up front. Good chewy, bready, slightly saline middle. Finish is a bit lilting with lower acidity.

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• forceberry wrote: 90 points

  September 14, 2015 - A biodynamic Chenin Blanc that has been fermented spontaneously and very slowly over 13 months. After the wine is fermented dry, it is transferred to old oak barrels in which it is kept for another 12 months before bottled unfiltered and unfined.
  
  Very intense golden yellow color. The nose feels very rich and expressive with intense and rather developed aromas of honey, pronounced pineapple character, some smoke, a little bit of mushroomy character and a hint of beeswax. The wine is medium-bodied, incisive and very mineral with dry-ish to off-dry flavors of steely minerality, lemony citrus fruits, ripe red apples, some honeyed tones and a hint of apple peel bitterness. Racy acidity. The finish is bone-dry and rather lean with pronounced stony minerality, quinine bitterness, tart citrus fruits like pink grapefruit and key lime, some apple peel bitterness and a hint of honeyed richness.
  
  A lean, racy and mineral Chenin Blanc with surprisingly developed, layered complexity. The wine feels like a conundrum: it is both surprisingly developed and very youthful at the same time. Overall this vintage feels less straightforward and more substantial than the previous vintage, although still showing that same kind of unwelcoming leanness and austerity. A unique and interesting Chenin that might need some years before that tightly-wound texture starts to resolve. Nice!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type White
• Producer Château de Fosse-Seche
• Varietal Chenin Blanc
• Designation Arcane
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Anjou-Saumur
• Appellation Saumur

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• Consumed 53 (87%)

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