Community Tasting Notes 26

• NickA Likes this wine: 89 points

  December 17, 2023 - Didn't show as well as my previous bottle. Rather tight, even mean, on the nose, especially for the first hour or two - then rather more tropical, and unappealingly heady (the 14% alcohol making itself felt). Green/yellow fruit on the palate, almost opulent, and a buttery, mealy note. I generally like this style of wine, and there were attributes that I really enjoyed, but my overall feeling was of a slightly disjointed wine that lacked typicity. Final bottle should be left a couple of years at least, I reckon.

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• amateur62 Likes this wine:

  October 29, 2023 - Natural farming, late harvested, aged on the yeast without any impact of oak. 14% vol.
  
  Small bottle, PnP and enjoyed over two days. Needs a lot of air to blow away the cheese rind smell, then it showed mature notes with dried apricot with a hint of lemony, on the palate fresh and precise, good depth and long finish. No decline on the second day but with some tawny notes (walnut) that might not be for everybody. Looking on the 6 bottles I had up to now, I can say that there is quite a big bottle variation with small bottles, nevertheless, I'm happy not to have missed any of these bottles.

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• DFBW Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 16, 2023 - Outstanding value wine and drinking perfectly with 10+ years of age. Drunk blind you would guess at a high end 1er to Grand Cru Burgundy. Bags of perfectly balanced rich Chardonnay fruit.

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• Lordswood wrote: 93 points

  March 10, 2023 - Well I don’t know whether this is REALLY a 93 point wine, but I really want everyone to know how absolutely uniquely delicious this is. And for me / us, it is definitely up there with wines I know I am going to love. Some caramel notes, some herbs, something smokey (apricots maybe) and a beautiful clean acidity to finish it off. I don’t want it to go up in price, but it deserves to. Go buy…..

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• Misterobit Likes this wine:

  January 22, 2023 - bottle opened 1 hour in advance, served chilled. Magnificent frank and precise attack, I expected a slightly sweet and evolved wine but it is the young chardonnay that I feel with these usual markers coupled with a very good length. A real treat on a salmon gravlax, crème fraîche with chives, lemon and waffles.
  
  bouteille ouverte 1h à l'avance, servie très frais. magnifique attaque franche et précise, je m'attendais à un vin légèrement doux et évolué, mais c'est le jeune chardonnay que je ressent avec ces marqueurs habituels couplé d'une très belle longueur. Un vrai régal sur un gravelax de saumon, crème fraîche ciboulette, citron et gauffres

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type White
• Producer Domaine de la Bongran (Thevenet)
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Cuvée E. J. Thevenet
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Mâconnais
• Appellation Viré-Clessé

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• Pending Delivery 25 (5%)
• In Cellars 174 (34%)
• Consumed 314 (61%)

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