May 6, 2023 - brown sugar, toast, lots of pit fruit. lovely balance, minty finish. gorgeous wine.
May 6, 2023 - Ganevat Dinner (San Francisco): Really lovely, complex nose of lemon, lime, and green apples. Lots of acidity on the palate with more lemon and apple notes and a distinct mineral-y quality towards the back. Long finish. Excellent wine that beautifully combines bright, acid driven fruit with power and complexity.
April 19, 2020 - Although drinkable, even a bit enjoyable, no rating; this vintage has become old and most of the times too old. This bottle, with a golden colour, showed some glimpses of this wine once 'en pleine forme', and also too much apples and cracked in the finish.
July 16, 2019 - Drinking great. Wonderful balance of ripeness and ripping acidity.
May 2, 2019 - Boom. Drinking really well. Wonderfully aged. Apple, brown sugar and sharp tang on the nose. Strong acidity, gushing minerality/salinity (whatever you want to call it), apple fruit, some creaminess, and light caramel. A touch of herbaciousness on the finish along with a some light bitter taste. Just super complex and nice.
May 21, 2016 - Blind tasting , just after Grandes Teppes 2008 from the same producer. Nose very expressive, oaky. Mouth superb , wide, mature with just oxydised notes. A superb association between cream and acidity. Superlong after taste. Massive and energical. Exactly what you expext from an "ouillé". chardonnay from Jura. No bottle variation for this one. Organic.
At his peak.
September 17, 2015 - aparte wijn, veel eigen stijl, geen allemansvriend
February 2, 2015 - See previous notes. Last bottle.
November 21, 2014 - This wine started very convincing, but some hours later the ripe acidity disappeared a bit, however two days later the scrap in the bottle showed again very balanced. Don't compare this wine with Burgundies. Every time I taste a different backbone, due to a more pronounced acidity. The style is more hefty, maybe less sophisticated, but the wine pleases the palette and is very pure. Drink the 2008 now!
September 17, 2014 - The first vintage of this was 1999. The fruit is sourced from a biodynamically farmed vineyard planted in 1902, producing a minuscule amount of concentrated and very late-ripening grapes. Aged for years on the lees in old and neutral oak barrels. No SO2 employed in the winemaking.
Deep golden yellow color with a slightly hazy appearance. Somewhat restrained and slightly closed nose with nuanced aromas of complex nuttiness, some bruised apple, a little bit of creamy leesiness, a hint of dried citrus zest and a touch of something vaguely funky. The wine is full-bodied yet very crisp and high in acidity - even racy - on the palate with ripe and somewhat sweet, yet remarkably fresh and bright flavors of ripe apples, some waxy and funky character, pronounced herbal notes, a little bit of steely and slightly stony minerality and a hint of salinity. The wine seems to be quite alive, its flavors changing shape and character all the time, yet still retaining that racy character throughout. The finish is long, wild and crisp with intense flavors of herbal bitterness, steely minerality, tart green apples, some crunchy white currants, a little bit of some beeswaxy character, a hint of leathery funk and a touch of saline tang.
Now this was bloody brilliant stuff. As this was ouillé (i.e. the barrels were topped), this wasn't your typical, tangy and aldehydic Jura white but more in the vein of Burgundian whites with more weight, concentration and purity of fruit. However, the wine was still unlike your typical Burgundian Chardonnay, with its more racy and mineral-driven style reminding me a lot more of Chablis. Overall this was something like a hybrid of modernist Jura, Burgundy Chardonnay and Chablis, made in a very non-interventionist fashion. A unique and extremely fascinating experience.