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• acyso wrote: 90 points

  March 11, 2024 - Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Oily and rich, and not like the Lavantureux tonight at all. It's sweeter, riper, and thicker, and while there are Chablis inflections on this wine, it's not your prototypical Chablis. It's missing the acidic lift, but the minerality and citrus is here for sure. Clean and bright, and I do enjoy the relative heft of this quite a bit.

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• le_franc_de_pied wrote: 93 points

  March 26, 2023 - vendanges tardives. Fresh apples with some citrus and like licking shale,. Big, long finish...beautiful and would highly recommend

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• Barsacpinci Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 5, 2022 - Beautiful light straw color with a mineral nose. Fills the palate with pineapple and citrus flavors. Extremely long finish. Drinking beautifully now but can easily sit another five years

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  February 23, 2022 - 100% organically farmed Chardonnay from the Butteaux climat within the Montmains 1er Cru vineyard. Fermented spontaneously and aged for an extended period of 34 months, first in old oak demi-muids (as opposed to the 16-18 months for the regular Butteaux bottling), then in stainless steel tanks. Bottled in June 2020 with an addition of 20 mg/l SO2. 13,5% alcohol. Tasted blind.
  
  Pale yellow-green color. Fresh and somewhat green-toned nose that at times feels even slightly vegetal with aromas of lemony citrus fruits, some grassy greenness, light leafy notes of birch leaves, a little bit of apple peel and a hint of creaminess suggesting oak aging. Contrasting the fresh, slightly greenish nose, the wine is obviously very ripe, rich and concentrated on the palate with bold, dry flavors of spicy red apple, some steely mineral tones, a little bit of honeyed richness, light juicy notes of ripe white peach and cantaloupe, a hint of creamy oak and a mineral touch of chalky bitterness. Despite being quite big and ripe, the wine shows good, high acidity that makes the wine come across as fresh, firm and precise. The finish is long, dry and quite concentrated with intense flavors of ripe citrus fruits, some honeyed tones, a little bit of chalky mineral bitterness, light creamy tones, a hint of crunchy apple and a sweet touch of juicy peachy fruit.
  
  I honestly didn't think this was Chablis, because the wine was so rich, ripe and concentrated, but I nevertheless thought it was very impressive and remarkably balanced for such a concentrated powerhouse of a wine. Thomas Pico's style is quite contrary to the traditionally lean, crisp and at times even austere style of Chablis, but his wines nevertheless retain great sense of freshness, balance and minerality. This is a superb Chardonnay that is still remarkably youthful and has a long life ahead, but if you want a crisp, lean Chablis, I suggest you keep on looking. The ripe, bold style here is more reminiscent of southern Côtes de Beaune from warmer vintages, or even the exotic wines of Mâcon. Maybe not that typical, but delightful stuff all the same. Expect the score to go up as the wine ages.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type White
• Producer Domaine Pattes Loup
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Mise Tardive
• Vineyard Butteaux
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Chablis
• Appellation Chablis 1er Cru

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• Consumed 25 (35%)

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