Community Tasting Notes 29

• amc Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 14, 2024 - Beautiful nose of fresh orchard fruit, citrus, fresh apricot? Full glycerin mouthfeel, paired beautifully with raw tuna. Balanced acidity to stand up to fats/cream. Delicious alone and with food. Drinking well now but think it could age longer (3-5yrs?)

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• FrancoisD Likes this wine: 90 points

  February 11, 2024 - Vin élégant et agréable mais un peu court vu les exépriences passées.
  On dénote une pointe de calcaire et de lime, et un javel agréable.
  Mais plutôt un vin à boire qu'à déguster.
  Vu le prix, on passera

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• hprphf wrote:

  March 3, 2023 - Rocky and mineral, a non-pungent Silex. NR

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• englishman's claret wrote: 93 points

  September 2, 2022 - The ‘15 Silex is showing well but still requires air to fully develop, starting slightly thin but fattening up nicely with air. This balances lemon, saline, verbena, and grass notes with an appealingly fully body - neither thin nor fat, appropriately weighty.
  93-94

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• wjl88 Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 26, 2022 - First impressions sipping upon opening is alcohol. The Puilly Fume smoke/flint opening, particularly the smoke, integrates with the alcohol and really makes the alcohol noticeable.
  
  Nose is mostly flint, slight hints of light, sour citrus. Swirling reveals a slight pungency, almost like a light durian.
  
  The smoke dissipates quickly in terms of flavors. Well integrated flint and fruit greets you into a peak of fruit sweetness, and the acid slowly reveals itself as the fruit slightly dissipates with a tinge of sourness and softness and resolves into light minerality. The smoke reveals itself at the end slightly with the alcohol that rushes up the sides of your head.
  
  The slight fruity pungency lingers into an incredible finish. Tropical fruit salad well balanced by ripeness and sweetness. Definitely a long sipping wine, as the finish evolves and evolves. I'm shocked by how long the finish lasts and continually changes. Pretty amazing.
  
  Fun wine to stare at those fruit bowl still life paintings, as the finish is playful -- its firmly present, yet seems fragile and like it can disappear any moment... and yet if you try to get rid of it, you can't! If your still life has a stone bowl carrying the fruits, even better as the slight flint that greeted you also makes itself known as the finish continues to evolve and the fruit goes through phases of various ripeness.
  
  However, I'm not sure if the wine opening does much for it. The finish definitely suffers, much of the persistence quickly disappearing -- perhaps the ethereal persistence was more of a statement for how the wine would quickly lose the finish as it opens and airs out. I'm pretty surprised by how much it loses as the chalk and flint comes out more as the wine opens, but loses the tropical fruit bouquet.
  
  The wine isn't particularly emotional, as it seems to depict everything it wants to with immense clarity, and perhaps slightly too obvious in presentation. But a great wine to just slowly sip through the evening with. Kind of wish I was eating Nandos or something for some reason.
  
  My first Silex was a 2016 mag I didnt like too much -- but given how it seems most of the beauty of this wine seems to be in the finish in the first hour or so -- I can see why the setting wasn't ripe for it when I first tried it.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type White
• Producer Didier Dagueneau
• Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
• Designation Silex
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Upper Loire
• Appellation Pouilly-Fumé
• UPC Codes 4000141745972, 4000145291161, 6009824920963, 7070334397346

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• Pending Delivery 11 (1%)
• In Cellars 662 (64%)
• Consumed 364 (35%)

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