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Paul S wrote:

Friday, October 11, 2013 - William's Bachelor's Party (Tonny Restaurant, Geylang Lor 3, Singapore): This was a memorable bottle, possibly the best white on the night, and that it really saying something given the company it had. I loved the nose with its layers of honeycomb and beeswax and cloves wafting out of the glass alongside rich aromas of apricots and peaches, a twist of kumquats and some lovely floral tones. The palate had a very rich, fleshy feel on, with white melon and mangosteen flavours on a bed of beeswax and sweet floral notes wrapped in a thick, almost olive-oil textured attack. It shifted gear on the midpalate though – it was really minerally, full of chalky note and flinty accents, almost like liquefied rocks being poured over the white fruit and honeyed tones. There was lovely complexity to it all. Previous notes seem to have criticized the wine for being fat (this was a 15.5% monster) and lacking acidity and cut. However,on the night we actually found it to be quite brilliantly balanced for its size, with a nice focus and precision to it, especially as it wound its way into a nicely dry finish. My only criticism was that it was just a bit hollow on the backpalate, with the wine rambling off in a less than fully convicted fashion, with pinpricks of spice nestling amdist some honey and kumquat notes. This was perhaps the one thing that prevented it from being a really monumental wine; otherwise, it was quite brilliant. At a good place now too, though it should last in the bottle for some time yet.

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