October 16, 2020 - Tasted single blind
Brilliant gold/ starbright - actually quite beautiful to look at
Medium plus aromas dominated by wet wool and intense minerality - the wet wool aromas took me to Savennieres immediately but these are much more intense than Ive experienced in the past - a bit offputting actually
Really not much fruit on the nose initially, although some pleasant yellow floral and green herbs in the background
Medium fairly broad palate of cucumber/ unripe melon and lemon again with dry rock minerality
High acidity with medium phenolic bitterness and medium plus alcohol - well balanced
This wine is quite monolithic at this time and dominated by this wet wool aroma which is quite intense and only diminished slightly with time in the glass - It was not there in the empty glass, which had more of your honey/ floral minerality
I have faith in this wine based on this and would wait 3-5 yrs before opening another bottle
October 13, 2020 - Single blind tasting
Pale gold, clear
Aromatics medium. Yellow flowers with secondary minerality
Palate medium +. Acid medium + to high, expected crescendo pattern of Chenin blanc. No phenolics and alcohol medium +. Spice, brief honeysuckle and crisp yellow apples, followed by green melon over time
Finish has a medium + length, but the balance was to the acid despite the above descriptors.
Dry glass aromas of honey
I would hold this a bit longer. Hoping for more intense aromatics.
January 14, 2020 - Served blind
Bright gold
Funky oxidative notes at first glance,
But then mostly bruised apple/pear with a chalky finish. Dry.
A more oxidative style of Savennieres, NFS
July 30, 2019 - More crisp and chalky in youth. We are looking at this hard for BTG in Fall. Has that honeyed apple character you/ would look for in Savennieres, hay, mushroom. Delicious. I really want to work with this.
January 8, 2019 - Tasted blind
Light yellow
Light golden apple aromas
Bright acidity with a chalky finish.
Highish alcohol, but nice balance
Lacks some of the oxidative and lanolin notes of many chenins, but eventually got there due to the inability to place it anywhere else.
Very nice, but I’d wait, as the impression now is a bit lean
October 24, 2018 - Tasted blind. Clear, bright medium yellow, with a gold hue. The nose is clean, medium in intensity, with golden apple, ripe pear, lemon, white flowers, chamomile, almond and an intriguing medicinal herb note. The nose is youthful and there is no oak apparent. The palate is dry, with medium (+) acidity, medium to medium (+) alcohol (actually 14%), with a pronounced minerality and a slight bitterness on the finish. This is a very nicely balanced wine, with medium (+) body, flavor intensity and length. It is drinking well now and is likely to improve over the next several years.
This wine is clearly a 1-2 year old, Old-World, cool-to-moderate climate wine, but after that things get very tricky. It could be a young Alsatian Pinot Gris (based on the hue and slight bitterness), but lacks the intensity and bruised fruit. It could be a Chardonnay, but the absence of oak and malo notes make that unlikely. The stumper is that it lacks the wax, lanolin and cheese rind notes that are typical of Chenin, nor does it have the RS and marked floral notes that one would typically associate with a Vouvray.