Community Tasting Notes 4

• Vas19 wrote: 93 points

  July 29, 2023 - Nose is slightly closed, but gorgeous elegant palate. Fresh, balanced and tasty.

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• glou.sf Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 13, 2023 - Fragrant and quite complex nose with citrus notes, minerals, apples, and a tiny bit of VA. High acidity on the palate with more lemon notes, lime, crushed rocks, grapes, and green apples. Nice finish. Really lovely wine, this will only get better with age, but no shame to drink now. 93-94+

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• jhbehrens Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 3, 2022 - Beautiful expression of Savagnin. Crushed ripe fruit aromas captured in a clean and tense wine that tastes of candied apple and dried fruit. Searing acidity balanced with rich fruit. Wonderful.
  
  Ready to drink now but wil get better for at least 3 more years

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• forceberry wrote: 89 points

  April 28, 2021 - A single-vineyard Savagnin from lieu-dit Les Chassagnes. The wine is "ouillé" aka. "filled", i.e. it is aged for a long time in oak barrels, but the barrel is topped up so that the wine does not turn oxidative, like the traditional "non-ouillé" wines. 12,3% alcohol.
  
  Medium-deep lemony-yellow color, slightly more pale than Labet Savagnin En Chalasse 2018 tasted alongside. Cool, dry and slightly reduced nose with a hint of flatulent reduction, followed by precise aromas of sweet apple, some fresh white fruit, light creamy notes from the oak élevage, a little bit of steely minerality and a hint of chalk dust. On the palate the wine feels dry, firm and quite light on its feet with a light-to-medium body and focused but also somewhat closed flavors of tart green apple, grapefruit, some steely mineral tones, a little bit of creamy oak, light juicy notes of ripe nectarine and a slightest hint of volatile lift. Most likely the reduction makes the wine feel understated and closed. The overall feel is very firm, structured and acid-driven, thanks to the racy acidity. The finish is dry, steely and acid-driven with lengthy, mouth-cleansing flavors of steely minerality, grapefruit, some tart green apples, light mineral notes of wet stones, a little bit of chalky bitterness and a creamy hint of oak.
  
  A nice, firm and very high-strung Savagnin that feels a bit too tightly-knit and closed at the moment. The reduction seems to make the wine stay shut like an oyster and only lengthy breathing in the glass seems to make it open up a little. Most likely the wine is just way too young to be enjoyed at the moment, and as it feels like it is built to age, this wine will most likely improve a lot in a cellar. Let it wait for another 5-7 years or more. Promising and quite enjoyable stuff, but if opened now, I suggest a lengthy decant.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type White
• Producer Philippe Bornard
• Varietal Savagnin
• Designation Ouillé
• Vineyard Les Chassagnes
• Country France
• Region Jura
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Côtes du Jura
• UPC Code 6286347701471

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• In Cellars 83 (66%)
• Consumed 43 (34%)

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