Community Tasting Notes 7

• Paul S wrote: 92 points

  November 10, 2013 - Brian's 40th (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): A really unusual wine. It is the second time the group has had a Domaine de la Bongran Mâcon blind over the past few months, and yet nobody was able to guess what on earth it was. Again, it nosed more like a Loire, say Vouvray, than a Burgundy, with lanolin scents drifting through sweet notes of ripe apples, mangoes and orange blossoms, with drippings of honey and some sweet coconut accents behind. Very pretty, but more tropical and exotic than even the very ripest Macons I have had. Same thing on the palate too, with its sweet apple flesh on the attack fanning out into generously fleshy flavours of mandarin oranges, orange peel and a honeyed, mango-like accent on the midpalate. What kept this really interesting though was the lovely spine of mineral and acidity that kept it ever so balanced and alive, never once slipping into fat or over-ripe territory. Very idiosyncratic, but really quite a lovely wine and drinking quite at peak - this was much better than a bottle I had 3 years back. It was a brilliant pairing with hairy-crab roe noodles too (anything drier really would not have worked so well).

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• Alex H wrote: 87 points

  November 10, 2013 - Ripe mangoes apricots and layered with some butter popcorn oil. A v different styled burgundy that is really unique. Almost like a cross between an ultra ripe napa chard and a German Riesling spatlese. Definitely drunk like a aperitif or dessert.

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• Paul S wrote: 92 points

  September 15, 2013 - Asher's 1st Birthday (Alex's place): This was really unusual: a 23 year-old Macon - ripe, fruity and really quite delicious. The nose could well be from Alsace rather than Burgundy, with rich aromas of ripe mangoes and brown apples, along with lots of toasty honey and winter melon notes and a floral, chrysanthenum accent. Rather alluring. The palate was rather leaner than the palate promised and showed very matured, even old notes of sultanas, browned apples and honeyed, dried fruit tones. This was super-ripe, so that it was almost seemed off-dry. Everything was still in pretty good balance though, so that the wine managed to come together in a really quite delicious package. So different from anything I would have expected, and almost impossible to guess blind, but this was actually very enjoyable.

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• Coollawyer wrote: 95 points

  April 26, 2012 - Honey with minerality. Bitter accents, lemon citrus with flint. Sweet with lovely golden colour

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• Alex H wrote: 84 points

  December 19, 2010 - Combined bday dinner; 12/19/2010-12/20/2010 (Tornado): Smelling very much like a Loire vouvray sec aged. Lots of white creamy mushrooms with a dose of raw honey. Almost cloying

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1990
• Type White
• Producer Domaine de la Bongran (Thevenet)
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Cuvée Tradition
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Mâconnais
• Appellation Mâcon Clessé

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