Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, May 18, 2012 - Judgment of Singapore: Part 1 - Chardonnay and Syrah (Zeffir, Dunlop Street): This was excellent. It pushed the eventual white wine of the night (a lovely 2004 Leflavie Batard) all the way. Opening with slightly funky, cheesy accents on the nose, these gave way to a touch of smoke and flinty minerality, a little layer of oak, and then ripe stone fruit notes, almost apricots there. All in all, rather sweet-smelling for a 2008, but wed as it was to real undertow of minerally accents, still clearly Burgundian. The palate was a wonderful expression of the terroir. Rich, slightly oily textured, with some creaminess layered over sweet lemons and ripe apple and melon flavours, this had a good bit of fruit and all of the voluptuousness you would expect from a Meursault 1er Cru. However, while the acidity was just a tad lower than on the 2004 Batard, it was still brilliantly balanced, with a lovely sense of fresh and precision, even if it was definitely on the fleshier side for a Perrières. The terroir really spoke on the finish though, where the sweet, fleshy fruit was underscored by a beautiful streak of stony minerality and a nice ream of spice that stretched away into the distance. The wine has opened up and fleshed out quite a bit from when we last tried it at the domaine a year ago. In contrast, it seems to have lost just a touch of the zen-like litheness that I remembered from back then, but it is nevertheless a lovely wine. Still very young, this will reward patience in the cellar. One to try again in four to five years.

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