Community Tasting Notes 11

• mks83 Likes this wine: 93 points

  September 26, 2022 - Day 1 - Light straw color. Nose - honeydew melon, honeyed apple core, quince, yellow/white flowers, and some seaweed. In the mouth, extremely deep - high acidity that intensifies towards the end is typical of Chenin, but its surface is exceptionally seamless and delicate- waxy body is almost sucking all over my tongue and inner cheek, like receiving a slow deep kiss by the nature. Some residual sugar is totally in sync with the acidity and enhancing saline richness. Long long finish.
  
  Day 2 - Color turned into deeper golden. Begins with melty ripe pineapple, finishes with nostalgic peppermint candy. Beautiful concave shape in the mouth - initially sweetness backed by acidity, dissolves into total salinity, then comes back with sunny warm-bright acidity - the shape comforts me like swimming over slow big ocean waves.

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• redwhiteandrich Likes this wine: 88 points

  July 18, 2022 - Lots of bruised apples upon opening but got better with more air, is that possible?
  
  Bad vintage, to say this is declassified trois argiles or silex noir would be a stretch, but I am perfectly happy to support a producer that has been a favourite of mine for over a decade.

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• tward Likes this wine: 89 points

  September 26, 2021 - What a charmer and a nice Vouvray in the mid-$20s and fine QPR at the $20 I'd paid. Just the right among of sweetness in balance with the acidity. Purity and length. The orchard fruit is ripe but restrained, tropical fruit hinting. Very good+. 12% abv.

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• fred o. Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 30, 2021 - 12% abv.
  
  Louis Dressner selection.
  “Soil: clay with flint over limestone bed rock
  Vineyard work (plowing, tilling and hoeing)
  Manual canopy management and pruning
  Hand harvest, grape selection
  No added yeasts
  Area of the estate: 37 acres
  8 generations of winemakers since 1786”
  
  Transparent straw golden.
  Nose faint lanolin, some white peach and florals.
  
  Palate slightly off dry but high tart orange acidity, a green apple note, balanced with some fruity richness and honey.
  
  Really nice. Still young. Perfect balance.

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• fred o. Likes this wine:

  June 12, 2020 - Orange golden color. Nose slight lanolin, honey, a sultana note. Palate strikingly fruity — golden apple, a honey note, with time a hint of green apple tartness. Richer body.
  
  Very good if some concern that this might oxidize in time. 91 pts

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• Vintage 2016
• Type White
• Producer François Pinon
• Varietal Chenin Blanc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Touraine
• Appellation Vouvray

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• In Cellars 32 (35%)
• Consumed 57 (63%)

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