What a pleasant surprise - I didn't know wine could taste like this. Very hard to describe; maybe like drinking the delightfully aromatic and marmaladey 2007 VdC from a glass that had been washed with green Chartreuse? Compelling, and a great match for a chocolate dessert, in a similar vein to a Barolo Chinato. A great advert for ageing this wine.
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Popped and poured. What a fabulous wine. Quince, honeysuckle, apricots and caramel come through in layers of complex flavors. This has great acidity and balance and can continue to age for 5-10 years.
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this was delicious although a much lighter and gentler wine that I was expecting - not at all cloying and the sweetness is balanced by the acidity - excellent!
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Very very good indeed. I've had many tasting of Klein, but I think this was the most enjoyable, perhaps because I've always had a little too young before. They have been great when younger, but this showing really proves its worth waiting. Richer in colour and intensity with serious length and complexity. If your reading this you probably know what it tastes like, so I'll spare you, suffice to say keep it as long as you can!
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Friday Night Double Blind Mondo $100+ (Bin 75): Dark amber gold; honey, botrytis, orange marmalade, pineapple, super aromatic varietal- Gewurz or Muscat; sweet palate, syrupy, good acid in back for lift, honey, white raisin, peach, apricot, definitely a dessert wine; very good, could hold its own against some great dessert wines.
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VdC great again, typical notes as dried and candied fruits (apricots, figs, dates), honey, nuts, fresh crispy acidity, good integrated alcohol, beginning to go to the peak, at least 15-20 years ahead, potential to 95-96 (50+5+13+17-18+9-10)
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tyical notes like dried apricots, peaches, honey, vanilla, tropical fruits, fig, dark roasted hazelnuts and butterscotch, in some way spicy, very multi-faceted, close to perfect balanced acidity and sweetness like D'Yquem, I think now starting to be at its best, but long living for the next 20 years
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New Year's Eve 2012 Drinks (Kat and Ewen's): Wow. This has aged beautifully over the past few years, and this bottle was probably the best yet. I thought the last bottle we had was already beautiful, but this probably shaded it. There was hardly a hint of the burnt rubber smells that haunted the wine earlier on in its life. Instead, we were rewarded with a wonderful nose, with rich, yet mellow aromas of treacle and dried mango, apricots, candied tangerines and lovely honeyed flowers - so pretty. It was lovely in the mouth too, with cool, juicy acidity running through delicious flavours of apricots, sweet peaches and nectarines - a whole panoply of stone fruited flavours, which were then drawn out on the midpalate with more dried mango and honeyed tones. Absolutely delicious and super-fresh all the way into a bright finish that had an almost guava-like crunch to it. Wow. This was really yummy, full of fruit and flowers and honey, yet graceful and energetic at the same time. Right at the very end, a slightly smoky note peeked out, but instead of burnt rubber, this had now mellowed into a caramelly, browned sugar tone, with little pinpricks of spice at the side. Really quite an amazing wine. Easily the match for the superb Sauternes that we had alongside. One last precious bottle - that it going to stay in the cellar for a few more years yet.
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Thursday Night Mixed Bag (Andrew's House): Double decanted a few hours prior to service. Deep amber colour in the glass. On the nose, caramelized pineapples, lychee, fresh cut strawberry, burnt sugar, herbs and spice. On the palate, nice tropical fruits, caramelized sugar, with a slight bitterness on the long finish, lifted by a nice streak of acidity.
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Adam's Baby Shower (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Brilliant. Learnt my lesson from the last rather under-perfoming bottle and decanted this for about three hours before serving, and how it paid off. This was the best bottle of the wine I have had so far. What a wonderful nose - mangoes, lychees, rambutans, spice - just gorgeous. The palate was at a beautiful place as well. It showed wonderful richly honeyed flavours of dried mangoes, lychees and rambutans - a beautifully tropical fruit basket tempered with a wonderful freshness that always kept the wine in perfect balance. The long finish rounded the wine off perfectly, melting away with a delicious mouthful of exotic spice. This was wonderful.
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Sur les oranges, clémentines, j’aime vraiment beaucoup. Pour moi, Sauternes c’est avec le foie gras et Constance avec les desserts, ne manquait que le dessert !
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National Day Lunch at Ken's (Ken & Cynthia's, Binjai Park): One of the not-so-strong bottles, but still a really nice treat to end the meal with. As always, this had a lovely nose, all melting flower petals, chamomile, mangoes, lychees and pineapples swilring around the glass. A veritable tropical fruit basket littered with flower petals one could say. It was certainly sweet, but had a beautiful balance on the palate. Again, there was a touch of burnt rubbery notes on the attack that I did not like much, but this was underscored by a nice honeyed mouthfull dripping with more tropical flavours of pineapple, lychees, rambutans, all kept dancing and alive by a wonderfully bright stream of acidity that carried the wine into a nice, neat finish. A lovely end to a wonderful lunch.
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2011 Casual Session - 11 @ ES (Extra Space Boon Keng): Alcohol :: 13.5% Deep golden. The serving temperature is rather warm yet this wine is showing off its perfect balance, precision and definition. Engaging nose with sweet mangoes, lychee along with a touch of spices, herbs and oak. Lovely purity on the very rich palate with concentrated ripe yellow fruits, cream and spices. Velvety mouth feel with good length. I enjoyed this a lot and in fact this is WOTN for many. Finely made. Buy - Maybe - Yes.
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Great wine. Golden in color. Nose of floral and spice. Sweet, but not cloying, very smooth, nice acidity, mango, spice, and floral on palate. Great wine. Very different from other sweet wines I have had.
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Beautiful mid-gold colour, very tropical, bright, bursting with fruit, very sweet. Delicious but only just short of cloying. This should keep for another 5-10 years.
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Tonight's gonna be a good good night; 7/17/2010-7/20/2010: This is improving everytime tasted. Pure mango essence, sweet white florals like a flower tea with dried chopped mangoes and tropical yellow fruits thrown in for measure. Crystal clean moutfeel, refreshing and reminded me of a tokay pinot gris. Delish.
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Cellar Raid at ES (Extra Space, Singapore): Second bottle in two days, this was by far the better one. Incredible nose as usual. Mandarin orange, mango, apricot jam, white flowers, osmanthus, honey - wow. Palate had a gorgeous richness, with lots of mangoes, both dried and pureed in its character, apricot jam, yellow flowers, yet it was always clean and pure, with fresh acid lending the wine a lively and absolutely impeccable balance, almost fruit juice-like in its freshness. Finish was mid-length, with plenty of orange peel flavours and that same fresh snappiness that permeated the wine all the way to its very end. Lovely.
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Simple Series VI: Grosses Gewach Dinner (Peach Garden, OCBC Building): Always good, but this was the weakest showing for some time. Lovely nose as always, with orange,fragrant mangoes, passionfruit and white flowers accompanied by a little savoury hint. This was haunted by a whiff of South African rubber though, which I thought distracted from the wine's character somewhat. Palate had a bit more of that rubberiness on the attack, but had thankfully more than enough fresh fruited character to carry the day, with rich mangoes, tropical fruit and some spicy, smoky notes riding on a treacly, honeyed palate. As always, balance was perfect. Finish was longish and sweet, with nectar and honey tones and just that little idiosyncratic rubber tone again. Not the best bottle we have had, but a pretty good dessert wine nonetheless.
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2010 Simple Wine Dinner Series No.6 - SBSS "Dry" Dinner (Peach Garden @ OCBC Building): Alcohol :: 13% Very deep golden color that display thick ripe Tropicana fruits aromas of mangoes, passion fruits, with fresh green grass and herb which is quite deep and lovely. While the palate is not as expressive as the last one we had but also possessed deep flavors of very pure sweet ripe Tropicana fruits with just enough of underlying acidity that remain it with good transparency and added some depth with spicy oak with juicy long finish.
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Everyone loved this. Lovely amber color. Sumptuous nose, with orange zest, candied apricot, honey, and a bit of spice on the palate. I ordered Crepe Suzette with it, and I can't imagine a more perfect pairing. I'm not sure if botrytis was supposed to have contributed to this wine's sweetness, but if so it's not at all evident. Still, it is a real treat. Enticing, well-rounded mouthfeel, with a satisfying finish.
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Simple Series II: Henry's Birthday (Ming Kee, Macpherson Road): Opened this about 45 minutes before serving - it helped a lot. Not a single trace of burnt rubber that haunted some of the bottles that I popped and poured in the past. This was an absolute charmer. Nose was super-expressive, with lots of tropical fruit, especially mangoes and passion fruit, along with flowery soap suds, all with a lovely freshness that made the wine seem really alive. Lots of complexity on the palate as well, with pure dried mango tones wed to apricots and more passion fruit with layers of honeyed flavours. Rich and sweet, but still balanced. I might have liked a little more freshness, but this was really nice nonetheless. Finish was long and spicy, rounding the wine of very nicely indeed. An excellent showing.
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Dinner with Monthly Group (The Lighthouse, Fullerton Hotel): As lovely as always. A bit of that SA rubber on the nose. Not enough to be distracting though, because there were also lovely apricots, orange candy and honey scents to go along with a whole lot of interesting spiciness on the bouquet. Palate was rich and dense, with honeyed apricots and dried figs galore, but also very nicely delineated with fresh acidity. THe lovely spice notes reasserted themselves again in the long finish that just slid down the mouth in a rich, creamy glide. Very nice.
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Joint Birthday Bash for Me and William plus Xmas / NY Party (Bounce at Iluma): Though my palate was already quite spoiled and wasted by then, this was an excellent finisher to the night with absolutely rich unctuous superfluous flavours and aromas of ripe luscious apricots, honey ripe indian summer mangoes and golden sultanas and hints of nutmeg cloves .... At the moment, both acidity and sweetness are yet integrated so with time this will really shine.
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Birthday dinner for Alex, William and Gina (Bounce, Iluma): I've had enough bottles of this to spot it as a Vin de Constance blind, but got the vintage wrong - this was by far the best showing yet, so that it seemed almost a different wine. Lovely orange / amber colour. Very open on the nose, with flowers, soap suds and exotic tropical accents of lychee, longans and dried mangoes along with a seam of orange peel. Palate was similarly expressive, with honey, neactraine, mangoes and passion riding on a caramelly texture that was at once viscous and dense and yet fresh and well-balanced. Finish, very suitably, was full of Christmas spices, winding up both the wine and the dinner perfectly. Excellent.
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98 Aussies Dinner; 11/1/2009-11/30/2009 (Lucas): Rich opulent smelling , almost like a sauternes. Lots of ripe apricots, rich and unctous with a bit of cigarette smokiness. A bit monolithic in its ripeness but does have a streak of acid backbone making it absolutely quaffable.
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Top 1998 Aussies and Others (Lucas, Klapsons Hotel, Singapore): Even better than the last time I tried it. Nice amber colour. Gorgeous nose - deep and complex, with some toast, nectar, apricots, nectarines, candied orange, mushroom, dried flowers and even a hint of mineral - all wafting out of the glass beautifully. The rich, creamy palate was lovely as well. Very-well balanced, nice flavours too - a touch of SA rubber, but tons more interesting flavours of neactar, honey, honeysuckle and brown sugar. Some freshness came up in the medium lengthed finish which chosed candied lemons and dashes of spice. Very nice but very young. This is one of those wines that will last for about forever. I think a good 5-6 years in bottle will do it a world of good.
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Dinner at Gunther's (Purvis Street, Singapore): Best wine of the night by a country mile. Lovely with blue cheese, even better on its own. Incredibly seductive nose of dried apricots, dried figs, nectar-filled flowers and the lightest layering of buttered mushrooms, with a fresh orange peel lift somewhere in there as well. Really sweet smelling but also ever so fresh. Much the same on the palate, sweet but fresh, with lovely flavours of orange marmalade and apricot jam. Lovely. Only thing that let the wine down was a shortish finish, but my, was this ever yummy!
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so good. THE best alternative to good french desert wines in my opinion. Is very young at the momengt but has huge amounts of sugars and some big strawberry type finish! excelent and will age very well.
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Amber in the glass, liquid gold. Sweet honeyed apricot on the nose, with a little bit of cinnamon. More of the same in the mouth, very Madeira-esque. Very well balanced, good acidity to cleanse the palate on the finish.
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Bacchus blindtasting (Finn's appartment): Amber golden color. Very nice nose, with great nuances of apricot, pineapple, spices and brown sugar. More delicate and perfumed on the palate, hand lotion, soap, apricot and raisin. Very intense sweetness, but beautifully balance with a striking acidity. Great length and complexity.
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9/17/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points
What a pleasant surprise - I didn't know wine could taste like this. Very hard to describe; maybe like drinking the delightfully aromatic and marmaladey 2007 VdC from a glass that had been washed with green Chartreuse? Compelling, and a great match for a chocolate dessert, in a similar vein to a Barolo Chinato. A great advert for ageing this wine.
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5/15/2021 - mclanew Likes this wine: 95 Points
Popped and poured. What a fabulous wine. Quince, honeysuckle, apricots and caramel come through in layers of complex flavors. This has great acidity and balance and can continue to age for 5-10 years.
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12/26/2020 - hargy Likes this wine: 91 Points
this was delicious although a much lighter and gentler wine that I was expecting - not at all cloying and the sweetness is balanced by the acidity - excellent!
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12/20/2015 - Ben85 Likes this wine:
Very very good indeed. I've had many tasting of Klein, but I think this was the most enjoyable, perhaps because I've always had a little too young before. They have been great when younger, but this showing really proves its worth waiting. Richer in colour and intensity with serious length and complexity. If your reading this you probably know what it tastes like, so I'll spare you, suffice to say keep it as long as you can!
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4/24/2015 - Rezy13 Likes this wine:
Friday Night Double Blind Mondo $100+ (Bin 75): Dark amber gold; honey, botrytis, orange marmalade, pineapple, super aromatic varietal- Gewurz or Muscat; sweet palate, syrupy, good acid in back for lift, honey, white raisin, peach, apricot, definitely a dessert wine; very good, could hold its own against some great dessert wines.
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1/1/2015 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 94 Points
VdC great again, typical notes as dried and candied fruits (apricots, figs, dates), honey, nuts, fresh crispy acidity, good integrated alcohol, beginning to go to the peak, at least 15-20 years ahead, potential to 95-96 (50+5+13+17-18+9-10)
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8/12/2014 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 94 Points
tyical notes like dried apricots, peaches, honey, vanilla, tropical fruits, fig, dark roasted hazelnuts and butterscotch, in some way spicy, very multi-faceted, close to perfect balanced acidity and sweetness like D'Yquem, I think now starting to be at its best, but long living for the next 20 years
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12/15/2013 - Rezy13 wrote: flawed
Dinner at Woodfire Grill (Buckhead, GA): Corked. This would have been my first Constance...damn.
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12/31/2012 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
New Year's Eve 2012 Drinks (Kat and Ewen's): Wow. This has aged beautifully over the past few years, and this bottle was probably the best yet. I thought the last bottle we had was already beautiful, but this probably shaded it. There was hardly a hint of the burnt rubber smells that haunted the wine earlier on in its life. Instead, we were rewarded with a wonderful nose, with rich, yet mellow aromas of treacle and dried mango, apricots, candied tangerines and lovely honeyed flowers - so pretty. It was lovely in the mouth too, with cool, juicy acidity running through delicious flavours of apricots, sweet peaches and nectarines - a whole panoply of stone fruited flavours, which were then drawn out on the midpalate with more dried mango and honeyed tones. Absolutely delicious and super-fresh all the way into a bright finish that had an almost guava-like crunch to it. Wow. This was really yummy, full of fruit and flowers and honey, yet graceful and energetic at the same time. Right at the very end, a slightly smoky note peeked out, but instead of burnt rubber, this had now mellowed into a caramelly, browned sugar tone, with little pinpricks of spice at the side. Really quite an amazing wine. Easily the match for the superb Sauternes that we had alongside. One last precious bottle - that it going to stay in the cellar for a few more years yet.
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10/18/2012 - G_H Likes this wine: 91 Points
The White Club private tasting and dinner (Basel): Very elegant, not too sweet, usual muscat floral notes are not too intense, very interesting and great as an aperitif
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9/27/2012 - alittle wrote: 93 Points
Thursday Night Mixed Bag (Andrew's House): Double decanted a few hours prior to service. Deep amber colour in the glass. On the nose, caramelized pineapples, lychee, fresh cut strawberry, burnt sugar, herbs and spice. On the palate, nice tropical fruits, caramelized sugar, with a slight bitterness on the long finish, lifted by a nice streak of acidity.
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8/13/2011 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points
Dried mangoes and ripe yellow orange fruits. Heavy but delicious.
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8/12/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 94 Points
Lychee and mangoes on the nose. Rich mangoes and rambutans. Excellent.
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8/12/2011 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Adam's Baby Shower (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Brilliant. Learnt my lesson from the last rather under-perfoming bottle and decanted this for about three hours before serving, and how it paid off. This was the best bottle of the wine I have had so far. What a wonderful nose - mangoes, lychees, rambutans, spice - just gorgeous. The palate was at a beautiful place as well. It showed wonderful richly honeyed flavours of dried mangoes, lychees and rambutans - a beautifully tropical fruit basket tempered with a wonderful freshness that always kept the wine in perfect balance. The long finish rounded the wine off perfectly, melting away with a delicious mouthful of exotic spice. This was wonderful.
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8/11/2011 - kopke Likes this wine: 91 Points
Sur les oranges, clémentines, j’aime vraiment beaucoup. Pour moi, Sauternes c’est avec le foie gras et Constance avec les desserts, ne manquait que le dessert !
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8/9/2011 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
National Day Lunch at Ken's (Ken & Cynthia's, Binjai Park): One of the not-so-strong bottles, but still a really nice treat to end the meal with. As always, this had a lovely nose, all melting flower petals, chamomile, mangoes, lychees and pineapples swilring around the glass. A veritable tropical fruit basket littered with flower petals one could say. It was certainly sweet, but had a beautiful balance on the palate. Again, there was a touch of burnt rubbery notes on the attack that I did not like much, but this was underscored by a nice honeyed mouthfull dripping with more tropical flavours of pineapple, lychees, rambutans, all kept dancing and alive by a wonderfully bright stream of acidity that carried the wine into a nice, neat finish. A lovely end to a wonderful lunch.
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7/15/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
2011 Casual Session - 11 @ ES (Extra Space Boon Keng): Alcohol :: 13.5%
Deep golden. The serving temperature is rather warm yet this wine is showing off its perfect balance, precision and definition. Engaging nose with sweet mangoes, lychee along with a touch of spices, herbs and oak. Lovely purity on the very rich palate with concentrated ripe yellow fruits, cream and spices. Velvety mouth feel with good length. I enjoyed this a lot and in fact this is WOTN for many. Finely made. Buy - Maybe - Yes.
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5/7/2011 - rexmerlot wrote: 93 Points
Great wine. Golden in color. Nose of floral and spice. Sweet, but not cloying, very smooth, nice acidity, mango, spice, and floral on palate. Great wine. Very different from other sweet wines I have had.
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10/2/2010 - Captain Haddock Likes this wine: 91 Points
Beautiful mid-gold colour, very tropical, bright, bursting with fruit, very sweet. Delicious but only just short of cloying. This should keep for another 5-10 years.
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7/19/2010 - Alex H wrote: 87 Points
Tonight's gonna be a good good night; 7/17/2010-7/20/2010: This is improving everytime tasted. Pure mango essence, sweet white florals like a flower tea with dried chopped mangoes and tropical yellow fruits thrown in for measure. Crystal clean moutfeel, refreshing and reminded me of a tokay pinot gris. Delish.
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7/17/2010 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Cellar Raid at ES (Extra Space, Singapore): Second bottle in two days, this was by far the better one. Incredible nose as usual. Mandarin orange, mango, apricot jam, white flowers, osmanthus, honey - wow. Palate had a gorgeous richness, with lots of mangoes, both dried and pureed in its character, apricot jam, yellow flowers, yet it was always clean and pure, with fresh acid lending the wine a lively and absolutely impeccable balance, almost fruit juice-like in its freshness. Finish was mid-length, with plenty of orange peel flavours and that same fresh snappiness that permeated the wine all the way to its very end. Lovely.
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7/16/2010 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Simple Series VI: Grosses Gewach Dinner (Peach Garden, OCBC Building): Always good, but this was the weakest showing for some time. Lovely nose as always, with orange,fragrant mangoes, passionfruit and white flowers accompanied by a little savoury hint. This was haunted by a whiff of South African rubber though, which I thought distracted from the wine's character somewhat. Palate had a bit more of that rubberiness on the attack, but had thankfully more than enough fresh fruited character to carry the day, with rich mangoes, tropical fruit and some spicy, smoky notes riding on a treacly, honeyed palate. As always, balance was perfect. Finish was longish and sweet, with nectar and honey tones and just that little idiosyncratic rubber tone again. Not the best bottle we have had, but a pretty good dessert wine nonetheless.
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7/16/2010 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
2010 Simple Wine Dinner Series No.6 - SBSS "Dry" Dinner (Peach Garden @ OCBC Building): Alcohol :: 13%
Very deep golden color that display thick ripe Tropicana fruits aromas of mangoes, passion fruits, with fresh green grass and herb which is quite deep and lovely. While the palate is not as expressive as the last one we had but also possessed deep flavors of very pure sweet ripe Tropicana fruits with just enough of underlying acidity that remain it with good transparency and added some depth with spicy oak with juicy long finish.
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3/12/2010 - James B wrote: 91 Points
Everyone loved this. Lovely amber color. Sumptuous nose, with orange zest, candied apricot, honey, and a bit of spice on the palate. I ordered Crepe Suzette with it, and I can't imagine a more perfect pairing. I'm not sure if botrytis was supposed to have contributed to this wine's sweetness, but if so it's not at all evident. Still, it is a real treat. Enticing, well-rounded mouthfeel, with a satisfying finish.
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1/31/2010 - Impulse wrote: 93 Points
Very powerful nose, the mouthfeel is on orange marmelade and clove, it covers the entire mouth with very persistent aromas.
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1/29/2010 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Simple Series II: Henry's Birthday (Ming Kee, Macpherson Road): Opened this about 45 minutes before serving - it helped a lot. Not a single trace of burnt rubber that haunted some of the bottles that I popped and poured in the past. This was an absolute charmer. Nose was super-expressive, with lots of tropical fruit, especially mangoes and passion fruit, along with flowery soap suds, all with a lovely freshness that made the wine seem really alive. Lots of complexity on the palate as well, with pure dried mango tones wed to apricots and more passion fruit with layers of honeyed flavours. Rich and sweet, but still balanced. I might have liked a little more freshness, but this was really nice nonetheless. Finish was long and spicy, rounding the wine of very nicely indeed. An excellent showing.
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1/13/2010 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Dinner with Monthly Group (The Lighthouse, Fullerton Hotel): As lovely as always. A bit of that SA rubber on the nose. Not enough to be distracting though, because there were also lovely apricots, orange candy and honey scents to go along with a whole lot of interesting spiciness on the bouquet. Palate was rich and dense, with honeyed apricots and dried figs galore, but also very nicely delineated with fresh acidity. THe lovely spice notes reasserted themselves again in the long finish that just slid down the mouth in a rich, creamy glide. Very nice.
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1/8/2010 - jsherdc wrote: 94 Points
Terrific balance. Honey and Apricot. Its sweet but less sweet than sauternes. Was awesome with blue cheese.
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12/25/2009 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points
Joint Birthday Bash for Me and William plus Xmas / NY Party (Bounce at Iluma): Though my palate was already quite spoiled and wasted by then, this was an excellent finisher to the night with absolutely rich unctuous superfluous flavours and aromas of ripe luscious apricots, honey ripe indian summer mangoes and golden sultanas and hints of nutmeg cloves .... At the moment, both acidity and sweetness are yet integrated so with time this will really shine.
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12/23/2009 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Birthday dinner for Alex, William and Gina (Bounce, Iluma): I've had enough bottles of this to spot it as a Vin de Constance blind, but got the vintage wrong - this was by far the best showing yet, so that it seemed almost a different wine. Lovely orange / amber colour. Very open on the nose, with flowers, soap suds and exotic tropical accents of lychee, longans and dried mangoes along with a seam of orange peel. Palate was similarly expressive, with honey, neactraine, mangoes and passion riding on a caramelly texture that was at once viscous and dense and yet fresh and well-balanced. Finish, very suitably, was full of Christmas spices, winding up both the wine and the dinner perfectly. Excellent.
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11/14/2009 - Alex H wrote: 84 Points
98 Aussies Dinner; 11/1/2009-11/30/2009 (Lucas): Rich opulent smelling , almost like a sauternes. Lots of ripe apricots, rich and unctous with a bit of cigarette smokiness. A bit monolithic in its ripeness but does have a streak of acid backbone making it absolutely quaffable.
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11/14/2009 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Top 1998 Aussies and Others (Lucas, Klapsons Hotel, Singapore): Even better than the last time I tried it. Nice amber colour. Gorgeous nose - deep and complex, with some toast, nectar, apricots, nectarines, candied orange, mushroom, dried flowers and even a hint of mineral - all wafting out of the glass beautifully. The rich, creamy palate was lovely as well. Very-well balanced, nice flavours too - a touch of SA rubber, but tons more interesting flavours of neactar, honey, honeysuckle and brown sugar. Some freshness came up in the medium lengthed finish which chosed candied lemons and dashes of spice. Very nice but very young. This is one of those wines that will last for about forever. I think a good 5-6 years in bottle will do it a world of good.
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10/24/2009 - Rodenbach99 wrote: 93 Points
très belle bouteille, équilibre parfait entre le sucre et l'acidité. belle longueur, pas de cassonade
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2/15/2009 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Dinner at Gunther's (Purvis Street, Singapore): Best wine of the night by a country mile. Lovely with blue cheese, even better on its own. Incredibly seductive nose of dried apricots, dried figs, nectar-filled flowers and the lightest layering of buttered mushrooms, with a fresh orange peel lift somewhere in there as well. Really sweet smelling but also ever so fresh. Much the same on the palate, sweet but fresh, with lovely flavours of orange marmalade and apricot jam. Lovely. Only thing that let the wine down was a shortish finish, but my, was this ever yummy!
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12/28/2008 - benjiharvey wrote: 93 Points
so good. THE best alternative to good french desert wines in my opinion. Is very young at the momengt but has huge amounts of sugars and some big strawberry type finish! excelent and will age very well.
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10/13/2008 - THaas wrote: 89 Points
Amber in the glass, liquid gold. Sweet honeyed apricot on the nose, with a little bit of cinnamon. More of the same in the mouth, very Madeira-esque. Very well balanced, good acidity to cleanse the palate on the finish.
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4/30/2008 - Terkel wrote: 93 Points
Bacchus blindtasting (Finn's appartment): Amber golden color. Very nice nose, with great nuances of apricot, pineapple, spices and brown sugar. More delicate and perfumed on the palate, hand lotion, soap, apricot and raisin. Very intense sweetness, but beautifully balance with a striking acidity. Great length and complexity.
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