typical 2011 Chablis. Just missing that extra few pumps of power. A bit angular on the palate and the nose. You can sense the richness on it as so many Rav clos have but you miss that length that you get in the great vintages
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A pre-50 pre Birthday Celebration; 6/9/2023-6/11/2023 (Around Zurich Area): Tasted blind at Gupf, Switzerland . Guessed Le Clos , 2017. Bright full of energy and no way this is 12 years old. Lightest touch of oak on the background, light caramel, touch smoky, bright citrus, exceptional nose , mineral, saline and an exceptional wine from start to finish. A lot of life ahead here and elegance from start to finish. 96
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Tasted blind, this is consistent with last year's example - a deeply-pitched nose with some drama, but not super expressive. The palate is beautifully rich, but this is very young and the Valmur is drinking much better today. Marked at 93 blind, but that's likely a serious underestimation of what this wine is capable of delivering. However, best to hold until at least 2025 (better yet, 2031).
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Mon Clos #1 à date. Gêné à l’ouverture, on reconnaît les notes de lanoline au nez. À l’aveugle, certains s’orientent vers la Côte de Beaune en raison de la plénitude en bouche, de la complexité, mais l’aération révèle ses arômes typiquement chablisiens. Le vin change sans cesse en cours de dégustation, très complexe. La finale est longue et saline. Ma seule bouteille - je me souviens avoir été la première à obtenir la ligne de la SAQ ce matin-là, à 600 km de la succursale, et la seule personne à avoir eu le Clos au téléphone (une des 6 bouteilles pour notre coin de pays...). ;)
At 10 years of age, the 11 Raveneau Clos is showing amazingly young - oyster, lemon, white pepper, flint. Still a little angular on the nose , this isn’t really ready to show its colors fully. Excellent potential, if perhaps not in the top tier of Rav Clos.
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Side by side Dauvissat Clos 11 blind - not much of a difference to be honest, the wines showed really quite similar. The Raveneau was probably a bit more giving and generous but both were typical high class Chablis that will benefit from 5 years + in bottle to really show their potential. Felt like we should have decanted longer.
Great chablis. Needed air and developed over the hours. Finesse, balance, stones, no real fruit and long finish. Very special and somehow unique. Understand the hype. F...ing expensive. But a treat which delivers.
Survey of 2011 Dauvissat and Raveneau Premier and Grand Crus (San Francisco): Yellow. This just burst out of the glass with complex, penetrating aromas that scream Chablis. Grand, glycerine texture and saline brothiness with tart citrus underneath. Endless length. Superb for a number of hours, making its aging potential clear. The only thing I would mention is that when I went back to it about 4 hours later, a bit of oak stuck out, the only Raveneau wine today in which I noticed that.
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Five winos excellent adventure , mostly in Burgundy; 6/7/2019-6/15/2019 (Beaune, France): Incredibly focused nose displaying concentrated yellow citrus fruit, lemon curd, light honey, lactic, a hint of the 11 green, spicy spices, sea breeze, oyster shell, cool mountain stream and wet stone. Exceptional concentration, layers upon layers of yellow citrus fruit, cool, energetic, laser like focus, bright acidity, strong limestone mineral and a long concentrated yellow fruit and mineral driven finish. This is a classic Raveneau Les Clos showing laser like focus and precision.
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Some More Wine with Meals in Burgundy and Northern Rhone; 4/9/2019-4/17/2019 (France): Popped and poured. Reductive start, no surprise, but that dissipated within 20-30 minutes. Wow, what a powerhouse. Richness I rarely find in Chablis, even Grand Cru and so much density. Front half was less classically “Chablis” with that richness, but then...bam...oyster shell minerality from middle-through-finish in spades. Possibly a little more amputee than typical for 8yo Raveneau les Clos, so I’d keep the drinking window shorter than usual, 2019-2031.
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Dégustation Chablis 2011: Un nez citronné, une bouche un peu plus juteuse que le premier, sans doute les Clos de Raveneau avec ce style crayeux, aérien, précis. Beaucoup de dimension, il s'affichera à mon sens comme le plus grand du groupe, dans une lutte toutefois très serrée. Magnifique. 94 pts
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A dissapointing bottle. Drunk with several other Raveneaus and all the 2011s (except Vaillons) shared the same vintage characteristic of greenness. Of course a well made and good tasting wine, but not what you would expect from a Rav Clos. WOTN was a Chapelot 05 btw.
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The big Raveneau tasting (Kjell Tores Mat - Oslo): Though this is a highly powerful and complex wine with lots of concertation and depth the unripens of the 2011 is still a character at the highest quality level. More strangely in the way of cut grass and fresh mushrooms. Huge mineralic backbone in this one though.
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Air coaxes out aromas of candied citrus, sea breeze, and crushed stone. Enters the mouth fairly rich but turns thin by the midpalate. Give this more time. Drink starting 2022.
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Unbelievable concentrated and expressive wine. Wet stones, a hint of pine nut, no fruits but a lot of extract sweetness. Razorsharp acidity and a great salinity. Maybe a touch more reluctant than 2010 but even in this young stage very joyable. Needs at least two hours of decantation. 96(98)
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This is a stereotypical Chablis - it is so classic and pure! The nose is not showing fireworks now, just beautiful white fruits, and yet leads you in for the astoundingly classy palate, a gorgeous mix of power, precision and pleasure. Lovely.
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Discrete nose, wonderfully subtle aromas of minerals, flint, barley and wheat grass. I loe the elegance and restraint on this. The palate is medium bodied, lazer sharp, creamy enough, not too tart. long finish. A very racey elegant Chard, on the other end of the spectrum of the buttery New World kind.
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Has density and mass but the palate doesn't fill out in the middle, so it drops off kinda empty. Just big dollops of oak on the nose. It seems as the wine is half retreating on itself. Still have half a bottle will try the next day.
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I don't love this wine, something I can't recall saying ever about a Raveneau. It has a strange flytox, green note to the nose. The palate has some heady alcohol and there's not the usual focus and detail.
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A private lunch (Restaurant Le Cinq ***, Hotel George V, Paris, France): Two weeks ago, Thierry Hamon, chef-sommelier at Le Cinq, decided to return the 2010 to the cellar and to put the 2011 on the list. I can see why - the miraculous 2010 will have shut down by now, whereas the slightly more modest 2011 is wonderfully open and generous, seamless and silky, a symphony of flowers and creamy lemon, aromatic herbs, spicy minerals, ripe acidity, that hint of warmth from the wood, the effortless finesse, gentle bitters and wonderful length. It reaffirms its status as the First Growth of Chablis even in this lighter vintage.
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Rockstars of Burgundy: Toast, orange, spice, floral aromas. Superb depth, really full flavoured but not obvious - really good texture behind it. Long and powerful but also has great class. Stylish and superb, with a huge amount of potential.
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Floral green notes of Jasmin and nettles punctuate the nostrils. There are also ripe peach and candied citrus aromas. It is textured and powerful in the mouth with good volume and detail. It is cool and rocky below the flesh and possesses excellent length of flavour.
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8/17/2023 - clayfu wrote:
typical 2011 Chablis. Just missing that extra few pumps of power. A bit angular on the palate and the nose. You can sense the richness on it as so many Rav clos have but you miss that length that you get in the great vintages
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8/16/2023 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Fresh citrus zing.
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6/11/2023 - Papies wrote: 96 Points
A pre-50 pre Birthday Celebration; 6/9/2023-6/11/2023 (Around Zurich Area): Tasted blind at Gupf, Switzerland .
Guessed Le Clos , 2017. Bright full of energy and no way this is 12 years old. Lightest touch of oak on the background, light caramel, touch smoky, bright citrus, exceptional nose , mineral, saline and an exceptional wine from start to finish. A lot of life ahead here and elegance from start to finish. 96
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5/13/2023 - maaike2 wrote: 96 Points
During 6 stars lunch BOB at Aan de Poel: Incredible wine with touch of sweetness, power and length with beautiful minerality.
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2/9/2023 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Lemon rind aromatics, ultra clean. Everything you'd want in Chardonnay.
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7/4/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points
Tasted blind, this is consistent with last year's example - a deeply-pitched nose with some drama, but not super expressive. The palate is beautifully rich, but this is very young and the Valmur is drinking much better today. Marked at 93 blind, but that's likely a serious underestimation of what this wine is capable of delivering. However, best to hold until at least 2025 (better yet, 2031).
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9/23/2021 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Light lemon aromatics. Wonderfully pure and balanced albeit not extraordinary length and bitter finish.
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7/27/2021 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 95 Points
Crisp and lean, with a bit of grass and stone. Young and great Chablis.
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7/16/2021 - Mazy Likes this wine: 95 Points
Mon Clos #1 à date. Gêné à l’ouverture, on reconnaît les notes de lanoline au nez. À l’aveugle, certains s’orientent vers la Côte de Beaune en raison de la plénitude en bouche, de la complexité, mais l’aération révèle ses arômes typiquement chablisiens. Le vin change sans cesse en cours de dégustation, très complexe. La finale est longue et saline. Ma seule bouteille - je me souviens avoir été la première à obtenir la ligne de la SAQ ce matin-là, à 600 km de la succursale, et la seule personne à avoir eu le Clos au téléphone (une des 6 bouteilles pour notre coin de pays...). ;)
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7/7/2021 - englishman's claret wrote:
At 10 years of age, the 11 Raveneau Clos is showing amazingly young - oyster, lemon, white pepper, flint. Still a little angular on the nose , this isn’t really ready to show its colors fully. Excellent potential, if perhaps not in the top tier of Rav Clos.
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12/9/2020 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 93 Points
Side by side Dauvissat Clos 11 blind - not much of a difference to be honest, the wines showed really quite similar. The Raveneau was probably a bit more giving and generous but both were typical high class Chablis that will benefit from 5 years + in bottle to really show their potential. Felt like we should have decanted longer.
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12/4/2020 - Frank Schneider wrote: 95 Points
Great chablis. Needed air and developed over the hours. Finesse, balance, stones, no real fruit and long finish. Very special and somehow unique. Understand the hype. F...ing expensive. But a treat which delivers.
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8/25/2019 - sdsull wrote: 96 Points
Stunning bottle of Chablis that bested LeRoy and Leflaive on this occasion.
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6/30/2019 - drwine2001 wrote:
Survey of 2011 Dauvissat and Raveneau Premier and Grand Crus (San Francisco): Yellow. This just burst out of the glass with complex, penetrating aromas that scream Chablis. Grand, glycerine texture and saline brothiness with tart citrus underneath. Endless length. Superb for a number of hours, making its aging potential clear. The only thing I would mention is that when I went back to it about 4 hours later, a bit of oak stuck out, the only Raveneau wine today in which I noticed that.
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6/26/2019 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Good balance but less weight than I would want here. Perhaps a little closed, but this will need to gain heft with time to be a very good Clos
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6/9/2019 - dcwino wrote: 95 Points
Five winos excellent adventure , mostly in Burgundy; 6/7/2019-6/15/2019 (Beaune, France): Incredibly focused nose displaying concentrated yellow citrus fruit, lemon curd, light honey, lactic, a hint of the 11 green, spicy spices, sea breeze, oyster shell, cool mountain stream and wet stone. Exceptional concentration, layers upon layers of yellow citrus fruit, cool, energetic, laser like focus, bright acidity, strong limestone mineral and a long concentrated yellow fruit and mineral driven finish. This is a classic Raveneau Les Clos showing laser like focus and precision.
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6/6/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Quintessence. Pure and transparent, could use a little more weight and length.
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5/16/2019 - derek.hara@sbcglobal.net Likes this wine: 93 Points
Everything you expect in GC Raveneau. Power, precison, balance and purity. Unfuckingbelievable value!!! I love France.
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5/9/2019 - LWI wrote: 93 Points
Ren som en fjellbekk, intens, sitron, mineraler. En energisk vin som ennå er delvis uforløst, men hadde en god del å by på nå også.
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4/16/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Some More Wine with Meals in Burgundy and Northern Rhone; 4/9/2019-4/17/2019 (France): Popped and poured. Reductive start, no surprise, but that dissipated within 20-30 minutes. Wow, what a powerhouse. Richness I rarely find in Chablis, even Grand Cru and so much density. Front half was less classically “Chablis” with that richness, but then...bam...oyster shell minerality from middle-through-finish in spades. Possibly a little more amputee than typical for 8yo Raveneau les Clos, so I’d keep the drinking window shorter than usual, 2019-2031.
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11/2/2018 - d'Artagnan wrote: 94 Points
Dégustation Chablis 2011: Un nez citronné, une bouche un peu plus juteuse que le premier, sans doute
les Clos de Raveneau avec ce style crayeux, aérien, précis. Beaucoup de dimension, il s'affichera à mon sens comme le plus grand du groupe, dans une lutte toutefois très serrée. Magnifique. 94 pts
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10/26/2018 - hselte wrote: 92 Points
A dissapointing bottle. Drunk with several other Raveneaus and all the 2011s (except Vaillons) shared the same vintage characteristic of greenness. Of course a well made and good tasting wine, but not what you would expect from a Rav Clos. WOTN was a Chapelot 05 btw.
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10/25/2018 - Bobhelge wrote: 91 Points
The big Raveneau tasting (Kjell Tores Mat - Oslo): Though this is a highly powerful and complex wine with lots of concertation and depth the unripens of the 2011 is still a character at the highest quality level. More strangely in the way of cut grass and fresh mushrooms. Huge mineralic backbone in this one though.
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10/19/2018 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
Air coaxes out aromas of candied citrus, sea breeze, and crushed stone. Enters the mouth fairly rich but turns thin by the midpalate. Give this more time. Drink starting 2022.
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10/12/2018 - aquacongas wrote: 97 Points
Unbelievable concentrated and expressive wine. Wet stones, a hint of pine nut, no fruits but a lot of extract sweetness. Razorsharp acidity and a great salinity. Maybe a touch more reluctant than 2010 but even in this young stage very joyable. Needs at least two hours of decantation. 96(98)
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7/24/2018 - lepetitchateau wrote: 96 Points
This is a stereotypical Chablis - it is so classic and pure! The nose is not showing fireworks now, just beautiful white fruits, and yet leads you in for the astoundingly classy palate, a gorgeous mix of power, precision and pleasure. Lovely.
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7/10/2017 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points
Discrete nose, wonderfully subtle aromas of minerals, flint, barley and wheat grass. I loe the elegance and restraint on this. The palate is medium bodied, lazer sharp, creamy enough, not too tart. long finish. A very racey elegant Chard, on the other end of the spectrum of the buttery New World kind.
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12/17/2016 - Neuneuil Likes this wine: 93 Points
A little muted on the nose but beautiful texture, layering the mouth forever. Give more time and this will be a bomb!
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8/13/2016 - FYC wrote:
There is something off on the nose. Maybe just woefully underripe with overbearing oak on top. Bitter finish.
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8/13/2016 - clayfu wrote:
Has density and mass but the palate doesn't fill out in the middle, so it drops off kinda empty. Just big dollops of oak on the nose. It seems as the wine is half retreating on itself. Still have half a bottle will try the next day.
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7/6/2016 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
I don't love this wine, something I can't recall saying ever about a Raveneau. It has a strange flytox, green note to the nose. The palate has some heady alcohol and there's not the usual focus and detail.
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4/25/2016 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 Points
A private lunch (Restaurant Le Cinq ***, Hotel George V, Paris, France): Two weeks ago, Thierry Hamon, chef-sommelier at Le Cinq, decided to return the 2010 to the cellar and to put the 2011 on the list. I can see why - the miraculous 2010 will have shut down by now, whereas the slightly more modest 2011 is wonderfully open and generous, seamless and silky, a symphony of flowers and creamy lemon, aromatic herbs, spicy minerals, ripe acidity, that hint of warmth from the wood, the effortless finesse, gentle bitters and wonderful length. It reaffirms its status as the First Growth of Chablis even in this lighter vintage.
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4/24/2015 - CamWheeler wrote: 94 Points
Rockstars of Burgundy: Toast, orange, spice, floral aromas. Superb depth, really full flavoured but not obvious - really good texture behind it. Long and powerful but also has great class. Stylish and superb, with a huge amount of potential.
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11/17/2013 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Floral green notes of Jasmin and nettles punctuate the nostrils. There are also ripe peach and candied citrus aromas. It is textured and powerful in the mouth with good volume and detail. It is cool and rocky below the flesh and possesses excellent length of flavour.
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