Community Tasting Note

austinwinesalon wrote:

Sunday, December 12, 2010 - The Other Great French Blancs: Champagne and Sauternes (Wink Restaurant, Austin, Texas): A surprisingly good wine that had a strange cross between cognac and spice on the nose, with some petrol and burnt rubber. Very pleasant, it was not as sweet as the other Sauternes, had a deep orange, apricot color, and had medium acidity. After a few minutes it gained some balance and notes of candied orange, caramel, pear, nuts, apple peel, smoky apricot, and creamy/stinky cheese. One taster described the Coutet as spiced Christmas orange tea with honey and flowers, another “a museum piece, still pleasant with almost brandy-like acetate. Interesting.

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