Très différent des versions plus jeunes: couleur orangée, très peu d’elevage, 14.5 d’alcool c’est très mûr. Nez sur le coing confit, la truffe blanche. Grosse longueur en bouche. Un vin très baroque avec lequel il faut manger
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Nose: The nose is well layered and aromatic with pears, peaches, red apples, yellow florals, lanolin, and quince notes. There is excellent depth with there being a freshness to the fruit.
Taste: Full bodied with high acidity. There is some youthful punch to the acidity with a broadness to the feel along with pears, red apples, peaches, and lanolin notes.
Overall: While this is drinking well right now, it feels like there is a lot more to give. I would imagine that another 3+ years would be of a benefit.
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Blind tasting. Elegant nose of oxydised apples, vanilla, honey and hint of minth, in the background. Mouth weaker than expected, just enough acidity , some bitterness and a mellow vanilla. Obviously on the way down, lacking a bit of flesh, not yet bonish, but still very good, not for long. Actually after discovering the label, we conclude of a cellaring defect : some years outside cellar, supporting summers...
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Very charming wine, from fruit changed to mineral, from sweetness changed to acidity, from powerful changed to beautiful, from lush changed to love, from love changed into passion.
Tropical fruits, white pepper, white/yellow flowers, limestone, clean and fresh. Great Chenin Blanc indeed.
Au nez nous percevons de la vanille. Mais de la belle vanille - sans lourdeur. Du fût noble! Pomme, poire, fruits jaunes, crème brulée, épices douce... C'est beau et ambitieux. En bouche c'est simplement très savoureux, avec beaucoup de fruit, et une vraie tension qui mène le vin très ... très loin ... 19/20 (pas 20/20 car le bois marque encore trop le vin - si ce dernier s'intègre alors ce sera selon moi un vin parfait).
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2/11/2024 - PCVT Likes this wine: 92 Points
Très différent des versions plus jeunes: couleur orangée, très peu d’elevage, 14.5 d’alcool c’est très mûr. Nez sur le coing confit, la truffe blanche. Grosse longueur en bouche. Un vin très baroque avec lequel il faut manger
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12/27/2016 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points
Nose: The nose is well layered and aromatic with pears, peaches, red apples, yellow florals, lanolin, and quince notes. There is excellent depth with there being a freshness to the fruit.
Taste: Full bodied with high acidity. There is some youthful punch to the acidity with a broadness to the feel along with pears, red apples, peaches, and lanolin notes.
Overall: While this is drinking well right now, it feels like there is a lot more to give. I would imagine that another 3+ years would be of a benefit.
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2/10/2016 - AtoZ wrote:
Powerful. Nose like fine white burg. Unique stuff. Not sure what it would pair best with. Curry was too strong for it.
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3/22/2015 - dead puddle wrote: flawed
Blind tasting. Elegant nose of oxydised apples, vanilla, honey and hint of minth, in the background. Mouth weaker than expected, just enough acidity , some bitterness and a mellow vanilla. Obviously on the way down, lacking a bit of flesh, not yet bonish, but still very good, not for long. Actually after discovering the label, we conclude of a cellaring defect : some years outside cellar, supporting summers...
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1/3/2014 - noppakit s. wrote: 96 Points
Alcohol 14.5%
Very charming wine, from fruit changed to mineral, from sweetness changed to acidity, from powerful changed to beautiful, from lush changed to love, from love changed into passion.
Tropical fruits, white pepper, white/yellow flowers, limestone, clean and fresh. Great Chenin Blanc indeed.
The promising !!!
Drink 2015 - 2045+.............97-93/100...............
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1/6/2012 - sebastienjm wrote: 96 Points
Au nez nous percevons de la vanille. Mais de la belle vanille - sans lourdeur. Du fût noble! Pomme, poire, fruits jaunes, crème brulée, épices douce... C'est beau et ambitieux.
En bouche c'est simplement très savoureux, avec beaucoup de fruit, et une vraie tension qui mène le vin très ... très loin ... 19/20 (pas 20/20 car le bois marque encore trop le vin - si ce dernier s'intègre alors ce sera selon moi un vin parfait).
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