Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 12,5% alcohol and 7,7 g/l acidity. Bottle #1249 out of total 4866 bottles. Tasted blind.

Medium-deep and quite intense neon yellow-green color. Nuanced and slightly sweet-toned nose of acacia honey, woolly lanolin, some juicy ripe pear tones, a little bit of cantaloupe, light rowanberry marmalade notes, a hint of honeydew and a touch honeysuckle. The wine is bright, racy and steely on the palate with medium body and acid-driven flavors of tart lemony citrus fruits, pithy grapefruit bitterness, some tangy green apples, a little bit of cantaloupe and a crunchy hint of star fruit. The mouthfeel is slightly oily and viscous, which tones the bracing acidity down a little bit. The finish is long, crisp and lively with refreshing and slightly neutral flavors of steely minerality, pithy grapefruit, some cool wet stones, a little bit of tangy salinity and a hint of chalk.

A very crisp, focused and racy white that is not unlike a fresh Muscadet with its somewhat lean, neutral and very mineral-driven flavors and bracing acidity. Still very youthful, but it's hard to say whether the wine will gain any further complexity with more cellar age. I wouldn't say the wine is a particularly good purchase at 33€, since you can get 3-4 bottles of great Muscadet for the same price.

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