Drinking well now. Fully expressive with white musk flowers, pristine stonefruits and some passion fruits as well nicely framed by smooth oak and nicely integrated fresh waffles scents.
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Nose had peach, pineapple and caramel. Palate had some soft and ripe fruit, but it did not have the acidity. A bit disappointed given its high ct score.
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wow!! at the top of the driniking window. cannot remember a better chassagne. what a structure, fruit, buttery/nutty aromas and stony minerality... world class. better than 2 years ago
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A straddle between chassagne and puligny with obvious creamy lemon meringue backed by minerality and some saltiness. Drinking openly now. A whole moreish wine.
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Dinner at Giant Garoupa (Yuan Wei Deep-Sea Garoupa, Serangoon Road): Impressive, but way too young to drink - this came across as a wine with lots of great raw material, with a surprisingly ripe and powerful feel for a 2008, but one that clearly needed time to knit together in the bottle. It nosed almost like a new-world Chardonnay, with ripe notes of sweet apples and pears, along with a little hint of hay and some rather more Chassagne-like honey and honeysuckle notes. A rather nice bouquet actually. The palate was creamily textured, with buttery flavours on the attack followed by sweet apples and pears on the midpalate, almost shading into a bit of fig and tropical fruit layered with more of the honeyed tones picked up on the nose. It was a very full midpalate, with lots of depth and power, but this was wed to a nice background of stony minerality and juicy acidity - both of which hinted at Chassagne and the possibility that it was from the 2008 vintage. Still though, the ripeness and sweet fruit made me guess 2006 instead. The finish, while showing some length, did not quite have the full on power and scale of the attack and midpalate, lingering away as it did in a rather shallower waft of spice, mineral and more honey notes. Nice though. A rather big, powerful wine, yet it was very balanced with no lack of precision, elegance or complexity. This is clearly built for the longer-term, and should come around very nicely in 8-10 years.
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Nose of apples, pears, almond, lemon cest and flintstone. Fantastic palate starting with lemon and a tropical touch before the butterscotch notes from the wood are showing up in the mid palate. The finish is quite minerally with savoury tropical fruit and ripe apples. Alcohol (13.5%) and wood are well integrated. Big for a chassagne but not lacking elegance and complexity nor denying its origin. Give it approx. 2-3 more years to come completely together. There's enough acidity so it should age well for some more years. Great wine.
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9/15/2020 - discoverwine Likes this wine:
Wow. Still so young and balanced with beautiful fruit and purity.
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10/22/2017 - Doni.Bertolami wrote: flawed
I still wait for the day burgundy starts using screw caps for their whites. Unbelievable how many flaw bottles I keep on getting on these wines.
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3/11/2016 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points
Drinking well now. Fully expressive with white musk flowers, pristine stonefruits and some passion fruits as well nicely framed by smooth oak and nicely integrated fresh waffles scents.
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1/9/2016 - Burgnick wrote: 89 Points
Nose had peach, pineapple and caramel. Palate had some soft and ripe fruit, but it did not have the acidity. A bit disappointed given its high ct score.
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11/1/2015 - loloFR Likes this wine: 95 Points
wow!! at the top of the driniking window. cannot remember a better chassagne. what a structure, fruit, buttery/nutty aromas and stony minerality... world class. better than 2 years ago
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8/8/2015 - Doni.Bertolami wrote:
At peak now. Absolutely lovely.
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11/9/2013 - loloFR Likes this wine: 93 Points
Stunding Chassagne. balance between acidity/minerality and oak/texture. Good to drink now
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8/12/2012 - jemoi2002 wrote:
vin un peu passé
faible longueur en bouche
arômes encore présents
La structure était encore là malgré le temps
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5/7/2012 - Alex H wrote: 87 Points
A straddle between chassagne and puligny with obvious creamy lemon meringue backed by minerality and some saltiness. Drinking openly now. A whole moreish wine.
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5/6/2012 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Dinner at Giant Garoupa (Yuan Wei Deep-Sea Garoupa, Serangoon Road): Impressive, but way too young to drink - this came across as a wine with lots of great raw material, with a surprisingly ripe and powerful feel for a 2008, but one that clearly needed time to knit together in the bottle. It nosed almost like a new-world Chardonnay, with ripe notes of sweet apples and pears, along with a little hint of hay and some rather more Chassagne-like honey and honeysuckle notes. A rather nice bouquet actually. The palate was creamily textured, with buttery flavours on the attack followed by sweet apples and pears on the midpalate, almost shading into a bit of fig and tropical fruit layered with more of the honeyed tones picked up on the nose. It was a very full midpalate, with lots of depth and power, but this was wed to a nice background of stony minerality and juicy acidity - both of which hinted at Chassagne and the possibility that it was from the 2008 vintage. Still though, the ripeness and sweet fruit made me guess 2006 instead. The finish, while showing some length, did not quite have the full on power and scale of the attack and midpalate, lingering away as it did in a rather shallower waft of spice, mineral and more honey notes. Nice though. A rather big, powerful wine, yet it was very balanced with no lack of precision, elegance or complexity. This is clearly built for the longer-term, and should come around very nicely in 8-10 years.
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5/2/2012 - Doni.Bertolami wrote: 93 Points
Nose of apples, pears, almond, lemon cest and flintstone. Fantastic palate starting with lemon and a tropical touch before the butterscotch notes from the wood are showing up in the mid palate. The finish is quite minerally with savoury tropical fruit and ripe apples. Alcohol (13.5%) and wood are well integrated. Big for a chassagne but not lacking elegance and complexity nor denying its origin. Give it approx. 2-3 more years to come completely together. There's enough acidity so it should age well for some more years. Great wine.
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