November 13, 2021 - Oxidised in style. Salty, fresh. Not unlike a fino sherry. Good.
October 9, 2021 - Two bottles for at dinner with a collection of friends. Now clearly into matured territory, this shows oxidative note of sherry, orange, nuts and cheese. Also earl grey tea, unripe peach, hay and salt. good balance with nice, zippy acids and a good grip in the mouth. At least these two bottles are holding up well. Nice!
October 3, 2021 - A blend of Chardonnay and Savagnin. Matured for four years in old oak barrels, bottled in 2008. Medium gold. Floral notes (stemmy flower water?), bruised apple, lemon, peas, walnut, and Fino sherry, with lively acidity, and very good length. Nutty, and very saline. Good body and concentration. Finishes bitter. As others noted, the wine already tastes oxidized and not only oxidative. Tired by day two. Drink up.
September 26, 2021 - Better than my previous bottle, no musty cellar aromas. Mature, drying fruit. Hazelnuts and hay. High acidity. Not near the best producers in the area though.
August 26, 2021 - A blend of Chardonnay (approx. 2/3) and Savagnin (approx. 1/3), aged for 4 years in oak barrels, bottled in 2008. 13% alcohol.
Beautiful, deep and luminous golden yellow color with faint greenish highlights. Very characterful, quite distinctive and moderately oxidative nose with aromas of chopped walnuts, some bruised apple, a little bit of something bready, light lifted note of something herbal and minty and a hint of sweeter white peach. The wine is very evolved, quite tertiary and moderately funky on the palate with a light-to-medium body and somewhat earthy flavors of walnuts, tangy aldehydic salinity, some damp earth, a little bit of dirty, damp wool sock, light lemony notes and a hint of stale bread. High in acidity. The finish is long, tangy and somewhat dull with flavors of lemony citrus fruits, some tangy salinity, a little bit of tart Granny Smith apple, light nutty oxidative notes, hints of damp, sweaty wool socks and funky cheese and a touch of earth.
Meh. This wine wine doesn't seem to have benefited from aging - in our tasting of oxidative (mainly Jura) whites, this wine was the only one that didn't taste just heavily oxidative, but also quite oxidized. And not in a good way - the overall feel was quite earthy, unclean and rather unpleasant. The wine had an aftertaste that was not unlike the unpleasant nutty taste of mousiness, only this was just unclean and oxidized. I wonder whether the wine was just too old for its own good or if the wine was not that high quality to begin with? All in all, something of a disappointment and not really worth the 35€.
December 21, 2020 - Oxidized, bruised apples, oak?, lemon. Sherry-like. Cheese friendly.
October 21, 2020 - 89.
May 13, 2020 - Lots of old murky cellar smell initially, but this passed with some air. Fully developed aromas of bruised yellow apples, hay and lemon. The palate is intense with lemon and hay, and a good acidity that cuts right through.
September 28, 2019 - Butter cooked nuts, grilled lemon, oxidized pears.
Mouth watering acidity, wonderful lenght, great complexity.
Brilliant wine in its peak. Drink now or within ten years!
December 31, 2018 - Oxidised nose with hints of nuts, apples and litchie. On the palate still frech with good acidity and a lovely saltiness. Good lenght and complexity.