December 24, 2018 - Well rarely have I rated a wine so differently as this one. Ninety points last year, 94 this year. Assuming consistency of palate, drinking conditions and so on (pretty wild assumptions), this suggests that a year's ageing can make a major difference. The wine has hugely opened up, with a veritable panoply of lofty aromas: lemons (the dominant note I would say), fresh cream, vanilla, coconut - it's almost as if the oak has been dormant until now. The flavours from ageing are also emerging - softer, more silky sensations, and nice nutty notes as well. But the zesty acidity is that ensures this wine's splendid pedigree: it holds everything together with great elegance and refinement. Absolutely superb - well in its prime now, should be drinking splendidly for another five years. Both serious and delightful - a rare combination.
December 25, 2017 - Lovely balance of vanilla fudge and baked apple fruit, overlaid by a strong seam of lemony acidity. Quite long. Proper, elegant Pouilly.
December 7, 2017 - The second of six wines drunk on my fiftieth birthday. Comparatively, the least impressive wine of the evening, although many guests less familiar with white Burgundy thought it was fabulous. It's quite pale, and exudes aromas more of lemons and wet stones than of cream, butter and vanilla, which is more what you'd expect. It's not big - it's actually quite light and modest, but it's gracefully balanced, with a lovely sweet spot in the middle of fruit and even a touch of spice (nutmeg, perhaps?), and an assertive acidity. Decent Pouilly-Fuissé with probably another five years of enjoyable life left in it, by which time, hopefully, it will have developed some tertiary characteristics and more complexity.
July 9, 2016 - See tasting notes on computer
August 9, 2015 - Very good serious buttery white wine, loved it!
June 10, 2015 - The grapes for this wine are sourced from 6 vineyards averaging 75 years of age, thus the wine is pretty aptly titled. The wine was aged for 10 months; 55% in stainless steel and 45% in oak barrels, of which 1/5 were new.
Intense yellow-green color that tends towards lemony yellow. Very rich and quite sweet-toned nose with pretty unctuous aromas of sweet oaky spice, creamy richness, some savory wood spice, a little bit of ripe apricot, a hint of vanilla and a touch of slightly dessert-wine like botrytis spice. The wine is full-bodied, pretty unctuous and rather mouth-filling with intense flavors of ripe peach, stony minerality, creamy richness, some sweet golden apples, light apple peel bitterness, a hint of butter and a touch of pineapple. Overall the wine is pretty concentrated with moderately high acidity. The finish is long, quite acid-driven and pretty complex with intense flavors of ripe red apples, apricots, some vanilla, a little bit of stony mineral bitterness, and a hint of savory oak spice.
A concentrated and super-rich Mâconnais white with very ripe, powerful and quite unctuous character. The wine certainly shows a lot of ripeness, concentration and oak, but it still shows surprisingly nice sense of balance as well. Overall the style here feels weightier than in vintage 2012 and much more concentrated than in 2011, and perhaps the wine is even a bit too unctuous at the moment: this is certainly a good wine, but perhaps the slightly lighter previous vintages aligned better with my tastes than this vintage. Although not the most delicate white Burgundy out there, this wine still shows nice potential for future development. Most likely will turn out terrific if the oak integrates with age.