November 1, 2023 - Pure gold in colour. Nose is slightly reductive and pithy. Full bodied with weight and substance on the palate. Serious concentration yet there is sufficient freshness and balance. It's dry and saline and has the structure of very serious CdB Burgundy. 12.6% ABV.
Update - Day 2 - last 1/4 of bottle - this is now showing a more yellow fruited profile. Still great.
October 24, 2023 - Flawless wine from a great vintage; this wine is on par with any White Burgundy Gran Cru. I poured this wine at my monthly Wine Group. It was tasted along with a Corton-Charlemagne and the Cameron was preferred by my group.
September 16, 2023 - Lost my notes, so I am starting over.... Served table side at Spinster Sisters, a wonderful Santa Rosa restaurant. Notes are limited.
Color is light and clean and a step up since the previous bottle, opened in 2022.
Unlike many white wines, this bottling needs a good decant - say 30 minutes to start to unravel and reveal its profile. It possesses a lot of mineral, iron, and saline qualities, which I assume are site specific. Beyond that, many of the flavors are supporting the overall bright mineral quality of the wine. E.g., just like last time, I get a lot of bright notes of green almond and green apple, a bitter lemon quality, white flowers, and dry honey; all of which build upon the mineral foundation of this wine. Oak is very restrained to non-existent. Quite tight; quite Lovely.
I wish I was tasting this bottle alongside their Abbey Ridge, but no such luck. Nevertheless, this really is a beautiful wine. It needs another five or more years to reach maximum enjoyment and should easily make it to 2029 - the ten-year mark. Enjoy!
Also good the second night.
May 15, 2023 - pit fruit, white flower, long acidity. powerful. cote d'or styled. impressive
December 25, 2022 - Drank with family on Christmas.
N tropical pineapple, little funk, lemon curd, marzipan, little floral
P lemon cream, pineapple, hazelnut, little honey, saline
F long in length, nice mouthfeel and minerality
Overall a fantastic wine by JP always a pleasure.
50+13+17+8+5
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February 17, 2022 - Have wanted to try this vintage since release. I realize the wine is young, but you have to start somewhere.
Color is a bit rich looking for a 2019 - not sure why.
Nose and palate are closed right now. Clearly young
Initial notes of almond, saline, a bit of lemon and maybe a touch of lychee and white flowers. Quite dense. Flavors of lemon, melon, minerality, saline, white flowers, perhaps some dry honey, and lots of acidity.
Hard to compare Clos to Ridge, but time is on your side for both wines. Cellar for five to seven years. Think Abbey Ridge has a little more stuffing and ageablility but it's way too early to tell. Does have potential to score higher with time.
February 16, 2022 - Decanted. Per usual, these wines add depth with air. Light aromas of lemon/lime. Moderate+ flavors of lemon/lime. Moderate+ complexity. Moderate finish. Enjoyable, but young. 92-94.