Community Tasting Notes 18

• ppmm wrote:

  April 3, 2024 - Waited a decade past vintage try the first bottle, so I can’t compare this to its youth, but this was delicious: electric citrus cream and pith, light in flavor but substantial and mouth-coating in feel, with a slightly rough white-pepper and crunchy mineral finish that still tastes unresolved. Enjoyable now but also feels only half-developed, so I won’t be in a rush to get through the remaining 3 bottles.
  
  [edit: “light in flavor” doesn’t mean “lacking in flavor,” it means the flavors were bright, airy, not ponderous, and therefore in interesting contrast to the mouthfeel, which was rich and almost oily. In other words: I meant it as a compliment.]

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• B Paul wrote:

  February 26, 2024 - My last of several bottles of this. A very good bottle of grand cru Chablis - powerful, but nothing heavy whatsoever. Aging slowly and this still has plenty of room to run.

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• Guillaume-en-égypte Likes this wine: 94 points

  December 4, 2023 - After a very poor showing from a previous bottle (which seems to accord with other's recent experience) my expectations were muted, but this bottle was singing! A deep, rich core of clean, pure fruit with steely acidity and chalky / limestone texture. A great bottle of Grand Cru chablis that couldn't be anything else. If only every bottle of the 14 had been this good... Given both how well this drank and how worryingly over-developed other bottles have been, I'd drink any more in the cellar, but when it's good, it's really, really good !

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• Paul D wrote: 88 points

  November 29, 2023 - Nick's 64 Goodge Street (Mainly) Burg Dinner (64 Goodge St): Medium straw. Dveloped nose, touch of wet wool, clearing a bit to become citrussy and minerally. Medium bodied, mineral, some oxidative notes but quite linear and fresh on the finish still, lovely acidity. Much more developed than the bottle I had last year - I'd be drinking through these if I had any.

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• oenanthe Likes this wine:

  November 29, 2023 - Nick's Burgundy evening at 64 Goodge Street: Much darker than the Droin, you tell immediately you are dealing with an older wine. But this is only 2014 and for a wine of this stature in this vintage shouldn't be showing this level of advancement. I cannot help thinking that this particular bottle has turned the corner and is more tired than I am comfortable with. Personally I thought there were definite hints of ox, though others around the table didn't get that. There is good structure, it is weighty and also quite pure. Towards the finish there is a baked apple character a bit like champagne. I would have liked to have tried it a year ago, perhaps more.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type White
• Producer Jean-Claude Bessin
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Valmur
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Chablis
• Appellation Chablis Grand Cru

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• Pending Delivery 12 (3%)
• In Cellars 339 (73%)
• Consumed 111 (24%)

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