Community Tasting Note

peebal wrote:

Friday, October 19, 2007 - a wonderful bottle of chablis but not of grand crus quality. Faint mineral and oak aromas that emerged as the wine approached room temperature. Never very exciting but pleasing enough. On the palate, oyster shells, lemon, finishing with oak and then some acidity that is just on the verge of breaking up. Again, good, but not anywhere near stellar. On meadow's (with a second by Tanzer) suggestion I have purchased a fair number of Fevre wines over the last couple of years. I am beginning to think that they are flashy up front and lose some (though not all) of their appeal after a few years in bottle. Yes, this could be young and dumb. I don't think so. While I don't agree with the previous taster that this is some sort of oaky monstrosity, there is some wood. Though a traditionalist as well, what bothers me here is less the wood and more the somewhat rapid oxidization of the flavors. They aren't caramelizing, so this is certainly still good. Nevertheless, I have other bottles of chablis in my cellar that cost a third of the price that are as good, if not better. This is a wine that shows that the best tasters in the business (particularly meadows) aren't always right (yes, trust your own palate above all else). Glad I opened this. I'll wait a little for the next one just to see if their is any change to the upside.

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