Deep golden color. Slight amber. Nose of candied apricot and candied orange peel. A bit of butterscotch but mostly dried stone fruit. Similar flavors on the palate with a deliciously long, sweet finish balanced out by nice acidity. Sadly my last bottle but this held up extremely well.
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Burgundy night: A little soft but not lacking in acid. Fruit had more peaches than the apricots and honey of a Sauternes. Had a confectionery candied note and simpler than a Sauternes but very nice nonetheless, I think that sweet wines in general are underappreciated.
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Day 1, this bottle was still fresh and lively. Great golden fruit and sweetness matched by plenty of acidity. It was an awesome pairing with dulce de leche cheesecake. 92 points
Day 2, the fruit is not as fresh, still plenty of acidity. 89pts
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Citrus, apricot, mandarin orange, antique furniture varnish, wood and some apple and vanilla on the sweet nose. The sweet palate continues with the same, adding mineral acidity. Long finish, with some slight bitterness at the end. The age has already turned some of the sweetness into a more burnt sugar -like character, but the sweetness still remains. Enjoyable and balanced. Drink now if you want the remaining bits of youthful fruitiness, or hold if you prefer the mature, tertiary side.
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Low alcohol but high sugar. Maybe a hint of botrytis and a notion of Twix bar but mostly like a really good apple juice. Any nuance that comes out on the very tail end of the finish is overwhelmed until then by the unbalanced sweetness. Works with lemon pound cake and cream.
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sadly my last bottle, lots of life left too, there was wondering tangerine rind, mango, peach and apricots, nice fruit/sugar/acidity balance in the mouth medium plus length finish
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sugar is starting to blend well into this and it makes for an excellent aperitif. Great fruit, spice and caramelized sugar flavors and aromas. Just excellent and I still have 5 in the cellar.
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Bouquet full of apricots. Complex. Stunning panoply of flavors. Great fruit. Extremely smooth. Seductive. Balanced, not overly sweet and with enough acid to hold it together.
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Apricot, lemon confit, honey melon, caramel, burnt sugar... rivaled anything I have ever had from Sauternes. Paired amazingly with a aged dry Italian cheeses and hazelnut biscotti.
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Notes from the same bottle as Wine_Strategies, now almost two weeks after opening. The last quarter of the bottle has been in my home cooler at 48deg. Amber-orange color, heavy legs, and no sediment. Cork in good shape. The bouquet and palate have not lost a step with time open. In fact, it is much more seductive and seamless now than the first few days open. Not giving a whole lot of complexity yet, but there's perfect harmony between silky texture, honeyed fruit, alcohol, and acidity. Dates, apricots, fig, marmalade. Drink after a long decant or hold for a zillion years. 5+11+18+9=93
Drizzle some peaches and dried apricots with honey and butterscotch, throw in some river rocks and minerals, plenty of fresh acids, and this is what you get. Which is to say it was really good. Enough acidity to sip on its own, I suppose, but paired with warm fig bread pudding it's really good. A fig tart would have worked, too. recommended
PnP. Deep gold in color with a touch of bronze. Alluring nose of honey, butterscotch, caramel, peaches, botrytis, and flowers. Quite viscous in texture with a fair amount of acidity. Certainly not cloying. Great flavors of orange marmalade and golden raisins. Clean.
Enjoyed in a Riedel Vinum Chardonnay glass.
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WSET Level 2 Day 3: Appearance is clear, medium intensity, gold colour. Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with lots of flowery scents, citrus fruits, and a touch of sweet scented wood. On the palate, sweet with high acidity providing very good balance. Full body and long finish. Flavours of extremely honeyed raisins, orange marmalade, apricots, and oak. Glad I brought the bottle home. My first experience with Tokaji.
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Deep golden yellow center, yellow rim with no obvious signs of age. Tart tatin, guava, honey, limes, sweet botrytis, coconut water, a little peppery. Smooth and sweet, botrytis on front, tropical notes of pineapple and coconut, modest acidity, limes and toasted banana, great length (a minute or more), fruity and tropical on the finish. Drinks well now, will last at least five more years with improvement and several years after that.
Ap: Golden yellow Ar: white flowers, dried apricot, honey, christmas spices and a touch of mandarin peel. High intensity. Full-bodied. The acidity balance the wine beautifully despite the high sugar content. Good length
50+5+13+17+8=93
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Still young, but nice depth and complexity. Green apple, pear, melon, peach, each taste reveals something that I did not notice before. There is enough acidity to cut through the sweetness and keep the wine from feeling too fat. Great QPR.
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A little bit funky/mushroom nose which blew off nicely with an hour decant. Dried apricot and orange rind, followed by copious spice notes and a very long finish. This is still a baby and I'm sure has many years of interesting development ahead.
Every time I pull a bottle of this from the cellar, it seems just to get better with age. It always puts a smile on my face.
nose of dried apricot, mango, madarin oranges with a storm of butterscotch, toffee, clove, smoke, cinnamon, cardamon, and many more fruits and spices, plus heavy mineral and some citrus acidity. The mouthfeel is great thanks to the minerals and acids, the juice spreads around evenly and despite its sweetness it is so light on the palate. The finish is one of my favorite parts of this wine. It just goes on and on and on. You can think for minutes, hours after you are finished.. so glad I bought a case of this, though not all at one time. serious wines for a sub $25 price at time of purchase.
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Still quite light in colour, wonderful peach, apricot, macerated pear and hints of honey similar palate finish seems to reflect the lightness with it's shortish finish, honestly hasn't gained much complexity since I first tried this but an absolute bargain at $20 I paid
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NC Cindy Tasting, Pinot Noir (NC Wino's Stately Wayne Manor): Considering this is over a decade old at this point and at 5 Puttonyos of sweetness, it is still rather light in color, although fairly viscous. The nose is gorgeous - spectacular even. Cement dust, bright white and yellow floral components, a trace of bright apple blossom honey, a minimal creaminess, and some good tropical acidity, make this wine both light and deep on the nose. The palate has pineapple and bright lemon flavors as the most prominent component, meaning it is almost wildly acidic. I'm not sure I'd want this at much less than 5 Puttonyos, but with that much sweetness, the acidity ends up well-balanced. This does not yet have a lot of the "darker" flavors, but that will likely come in time. The finish on this wine lasts for a very long time, and you end up almost reluctant to take another sip for fear of disturbing the balance. But, of course, the next sip is just as good as the first. This pairs well with both highly acidic desserts like lemon squares, and with salty snacks. A truly excellent effort that should last for years if the sweetness holds against all that acidity. An excellent value at $30 per 500ml bottle.
Very Nice Wine, one of the strangest desert wines I have tasted in some time. Hard to pin down the key flavors, but it ranges from nutty, to orange, peach, lemon and orange zest. With a strange aroma of secondary characters like earthiness or funkyness.
The acid is great and it seems like it is still a baby, give this one time.
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Golden yellow. Sudued nose of walnuts, dried orange peel, brown sugar. Sweet, lemon, honey and very bright acid. This stands up to lemon cream dessert!
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This is always such a pleasure to consume. Liquid of the dessert Gods. Golden raisin, honey apricot and candied orange peel leads to the mouth watering acidity and you feel the slate like minerality. The sugars are starting to meld into this dessert wine so the sweetness will soon be an afterthought in future years. The former golden apricot color is starting to darken ever so slightly. It paired so well with some Baklava after eating Gyros with a Greek salad on the side.
Super Bowl 2013 (Cumming, GA): Tropical and sweet with lots of peach pit and orange peel, spicy to the point of almost being tannic, balanced finishing with nice acidity. Auslese richness. Very youthful.
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Gold yellow center, pale yellow rim with no signs of age. Roasted apples, unripe pineapple, citrus, sweet boytritis, tropical with coconuts. Smooth, sweet, botrytis, ripe pineapple, coconut, a little spicy, caramel, great length (a minute or more), a little smokey. Drinks well now, but will probably improve over the next five.
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Cos d'Estournel Masterclass with Valentine Bourrie (Caveau Wine & Bar, Shaw): Alcohol :: 11.5%. Medium golden. Toasted hazelnut, sweet lemon and pear, seaweed and orange blossom. This is sweet and rich but the refreshing acidity as well as the black tea like flavors keep the mouth feel refreshing and lifted. not bad at all albeit the finish is a bit alcoholic and weak compare to the turbo charge mid palate.
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I truly love this wine. candied orange peel, dried apricots figs and a clover honey make this mineral strong dessert wine very special. Lively acidity keeps this sweet wine from being cloying. Glad I bought 3 more bottles.
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For some reason, felt like there wasn't as much acidity as earlier bottles I've had -- the finish was much less gripping as well. Strange... Still had the ripe apricots, peaches, and honeyed tones, with some cinnamon, raisins and toffee.
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Golden yellow in color. Powerful aromas and flavors of mineral, apricot, and orange peel. Mouth-coating with bracing acidity and full body. Very long finish with good complexity.
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NY/NJ Offline at Aureole 8.20.12 (Aureole, NYC): Honey, caramelized sugar, wool (like in chenin blanc), and a slight petrol or alkyd paint component. Sweet and viscous but well balanced with medium high acidity and a long finish. Delicious.
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Pop and pour. The front end was a great balance of acidity, fruit and sweetness. Good mouthfeel. For the 1 hour that I drank a glass, the back end was watery, chaulky and short. Leaving this unscored (I'll score the next one) because two of us thought it was improving with air. I did not get a chance to see how it developed.
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Honeyed boytris island fruit. Some over ripe melons, but in a good way...apricot, pineapple and great honey suckle aromas on the edge with tangerine mineral notes. Excellent long finish that goes on an on.
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San Diego WineSpectator.com Offline, 7/15/2012 (Casa Red Guy): Delicious wine with typical aromas and flavors of honey, apricot, and peach. Fresh and pure. Didn't receive any votes tonight, but if I was stranded on a island with a sufficient quantity of this wine, I would not signal for help nor swim for the mainland.
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Apricots, ripe peaches, and a tad of botrytis on the nose. Decent acidity on the palate with a nice, lightly viscous texture. Appropriately long finish. Not the most memorable bottle but certainly enjoyable.
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Ripe botrytis and raisin nose, smooth ripe palate, but not quite enough acid and lift making for a rather flat raisiny finish. Too raisiny. I was a little disappointed by this after the fantastic 2006 Royal Tokaji Aszu 5 Putt I had a few months ago.
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Sweet pineapple, honey, apple, spice and nut aromas. Great acidity. The wine feels fresh on the palate, with pure, sweet, ripe, honeyed citrus and tropical essences.
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Soft nose of botrytis spiciness, apples, and a hint of petrol/plastic. Ripe juicy flavors of apples, pineapple, and orange marmalade. A real bargain considering you get 500ml vs. 375ml at a lower price compared to a similar quality sauternes/barsac wine.
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Girls Bake and Guys Drink (Pine Close): This was a lovely bottle - my favourite of the day by some distance. There were lightly botrytised notes on the nose, along with pretty scents of apricots, sweet lemons, and slightly tropical notes of pineapple mixed in with a bit of minerality. Really inviting stuff. After that, the wine was almost surprisingly clean on the palate. There was certainly richness in its sweet lemon and pineapple character, along with a layer of honey and spice, but there was always a good lift of acidity that kept the wine so very fresh and alive. Really decent finish too, zipping away with just a twist of orange peel and bittersweet zest. Very nice stuff, and it went beautifully with a lemon zest cake.
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A luscious wine with pronounced honey and butter on the nose...lots of orange marmalade. On the palate you get a medley of dried tropical fruits, some hay, lots of honeysuckle, almond, fig, apricot. Texturally quite thick and sugary, but with a medium acidity to keep it balanced.
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Tasted this against a Sauternes (Chateau Luduirant) with friends. The Sauternes clearly had more depth and breadth, but the Tokaj held its own. Troubled to justify the price difference between the two - have become more convinced about the Tokay. Raisins, apple cider, carmel, hints of vanilla. Went well with a bleu cheese appetizer and a strong range of English cheeses after dinner (Stilton, Cheddar). Highly recommend for the price.
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Cos d'Estournel & Tokaj-Hétszőlő With Jean-Guillaume Prats (Wine Exchange - Orange, CA): The aromas are ripe and spicy in tone with notes of white raisins, honey, marmalade, botrytis, and stone fruits. Tremendous gloss to the mouthfeel while the fruit is lifted by great acidity towards the finish. The flavors tend towards marmalade, pear, spices, glue, and barley sugar. The density of fruit is superb and really sets off the complexity and the long lifted finish. The balance, texture, and density are all very solid in this wine.
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Jean-Guillaume Prats of Cos d'Estournel and some gorgeous Tokaji (Wine Discount Center - Chicago): Young fresh barn yardy. Still some petrol on the nose but much more of a fresh hay aroma. Banana, charred fruit. Lovely palate. Big and rich but balanced. A massive wine. Just straight up tasty. I like when a wine has that "deliciousness" factor. A little bit more of that plastic on the nose as well - but its really nice in a new product sort of way. Really cool. An awesome Tokaji.
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Beautiful burnt, ambar, golden color with clarity and brilliancy. Awesome nose of apricot, orange, tangerine, and toasted almonds. Quite the exotic and intellectual composition, providing phenomenal nuances and sensations, flavors of beehoney, tangerine, apricot, hints of light caramel, hints of candied ginger, hints of vanilla, gorgeous acidity from the third quarter on, and explosive finish that lingers almost endlessly. Oily texture, full body, structure that you can sense, and marvelous acidity. Great delicious factor, and sense of priviledge, harmony, and perfection.
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Light golden color. Plenty of honey, apricot, orange marmalade, candied nuts and similar aromas on the nose. Honey, golden apples, and orange flavors on the palate with plenty of acid and sweetness to go around. This was an excellent pairing with an apple pie laced with caramel and walnuts.
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Similar notes to last time although the caramel and toffee were not as pronounced. This time the wine had more of the honey, apricot flavors going on along with a hint of some new sneaker rubber on the nose.
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Golden color. Lovely nose of honey, apples, a bit of orange. Great toffee and caramel notes on the palate. Super long finish. Very nice tokaji but I have had others that were slightly better for the price.
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3/9/2024 - Rich S Likes this wine: 92 Points
Deep golden color. Slight amber. Nose of candied apricot and candied orange peel. A bit of butterscotch but mostly dried stone fruit. Similar flavors on the palate with a deliciously long, sweet finish balanced out by nice acidity. Sadly my last bottle but this held up extremely well.
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2/10/2022 - melvinyeowq wrote:
Burgundy night: A little soft but not lacking in acid. Fruit had more peaches than the apricots and honey of a Sauternes. Had a confectionery candied note and simpler than a Sauternes but very nice nonetheless, I think that sweet wines in general are underappreciated.
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8/22/2020 - Sovinator Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dark golden color. Complex notes of apricot, citrus peel, and lightly burnt caramel. I thoroughly enjoyed, but my wife found too sweet for her taste
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8/20/2020 - galewskj wrote: 92 Points
Day 1, this bottle was still fresh and lively. Great golden fruit and sweetness matched by plenty of acidity. It was an awesome pairing with dulce de leche cheesecake. 92 points
Day 2, the fruit is not as fresh, still plenty of acidity. 89pts
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11/24/2019 - blaahhi wrote: 92 Points
Citrus, apricot, mandarin orange, antique furniture varnish, wood and some apple and vanilla on the sweet nose. The sweet palate continues with the same, adding mineral acidity. Long finish, with some slight bitterness at the end. The age has already turned some of the sweetness into a more burnt sugar -like character, but the sweetness still remains. Enjoyable and balanced. Drink now if you want the remaining bits of youthful fruitiness, or hold if you prefer the mature, tertiary side.
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9/6/2018 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine:
Still an amazing wine. Sweetness may be tempering but and added note of bitterness in the finish gives more complexity.
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5/4/2017 - Rollerball wrote: 90 Points
Low alcohol but high sugar. Maybe a hint of botrytis and a notion of Twix bar but mostly like a really good apple juice. Any nuance that comes out on the very tail end of the finish is overwhelmed until then by the unbalanced sweetness. Works with lemon pound cake and cream.
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4/17/2017 - eoinhharkins wrote:
sadly my last bottle, lots of life left too, there was wondering tangerine rind, mango, peach and apricots, nice fruit/sugar/acidity balance in the mouth medium plus length finish
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4/3/2017 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 91 Points
sugar is starting to blend well into this and it makes for an excellent aperitif. Great fruit, spice and caramelized sugar flavors and aromas. Just excellent and I still have 5 in the cellar.
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9/10/2016 - Racer117 wrote: 90 Points
similar to previous notes (plastic, apple, pineapple) but different in that acidity is slightly lacking. Overall, very good.
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12/6/2015 - Bruce 1er Likes this wine: 99 Points
Bouquet full of apricots. Complex. Stunning panoply of flavors. Great fruit. Extremely smooth. Seductive. Balanced, not overly sweet and with enough acid to hold it together.
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5/9/2015 - Mark Brandon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Apricot, lemon confit, honey melon, caramel, burnt sugar... rivaled anything I have ever had from Sauternes. Paired amazingly with a aged dry Italian cheeses and hazelnut biscotti.
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10/30/2014 - fingers Likes this wine: 93 Points
Notes from the same bottle as Wine_Strategies, now almost two weeks after opening. The last quarter of the bottle has been in my home cooler at 48deg.
Amber-orange color, heavy legs, and no sediment. Cork in good shape.
The bouquet and palate have not lost a step with time open. In fact, it is much more seductive and seamless now than the first few days open. Not giving a whole lot of complexity yet, but there's perfect harmony between silky texture, honeyed fruit, alcohol, and acidity. Dates, apricots, fig, marmalade. Drink after a long decant or hold for a zillion years. 5+11+18+9=93
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10/19/2014 - Tim Heaton wrote:
Drizzle some peaches and dried apricots with honey and butterscotch, throw in some river rocks and minerals, plenty of fresh acids, and this is what you get. Which is to say it was really good. Enough acidity to sip on its own, I suppose, but paired with warm fig bread pudding it's really good. A fig tart would have worked, too. recommended
Served non-blind.
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5/19/2014 - oakland.cory wrote: flawed
Corked. Bummer.
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4/20/2014 - J.Morris wrote: 91 Points
Utterly delicious.
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3/29/2014 - hesnctrl Likes this wine: 93 Points
PnP. Deep gold in color with a touch of bronze. Alluring nose of honey, butterscotch, caramel, peaches, botrytis, and flowers. Quite viscous in texture with a fair amount of acidity. Certainly not cloying. Great flavors of orange marmalade and golden raisins. Clean.
Enjoyed in a Riedel Vinum Chardonnay glass.
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3/1/2014 - Derek Darth Taster wrote:
WSET Level 2 Day 3: Appearance is clear, medium intensity, gold colour.
Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with lots of flowery scents, citrus fruits, and a touch of sweet scented wood.
On the palate, sweet with high acidity providing very good balance. Full body and long finish. Flavours of extremely honeyed raisins, orange marmalade, apricots, and oak.
Glad I brought the bottle home. My first experience with Tokaji.
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2/8/2014 - pdadams66 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Deep golden yellow center, yellow rim with no obvious signs of age.
Tart tatin, guava, honey, limes, sweet botrytis, coconut water, a little peppery.
Smooth and sweet, botrytis on front, tropical notes of pineapple and coconut, modest acidity, limes and toasted banana, great length (a minute or more), fruity and tropical on the finish.
Drinks well now, will last at least five more years with improvement and several years after that.
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1/2/2014 - admid wrote: 93 Points
Ap: Golden yellow
Ar: white flowers, dried apricot, honey, christmas spices and a touch of mandarin peel. High intensity.
Full-bodied. The acidity balance the wine beautifully despite the high sugar content.
Good length
50+5+13+17+8=93
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12/27/2013 - eoinhharkins Likes this wine: 93 Points
Just a delicious aromas of honeyed orange, mango and peach, really nice viscous palate full of flavour and complexity and a decent lingering finish
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12/25/2013 - Grenik Likes this wine: 92 Points
Still young, but nice depth and complexity. Green apple, pear, melon, peach, each taste reveals something that I did not notice before. There is enough acidity to cut through the sweetness and keep the wine from feeling too fat. Great QPR.
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10/22/2013 - MotoMannequin Likes this wine:
A little bit funky/mushroom nose which blew off nicely with an hour decant. Dried apricot and orange rind, followed by copious spice notes and a very long finish. This is still a baby and I'm sure has many years of interesting development ahead.
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10/7/2013 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 95 Points
Every time I pull a bottle of this from the cellar, it seems just to get better with age. It always puts a smile on my face.
nose of dried apricot, mango, madarin oranges with a storm of butterscotch, toffee, clove, smoke, cinnamon, cardamon, and many more fruits and spices, plus heavy mineral and some citrus acidity. The mouthfeel is great thanks to the minerals and acids, the juice spreads around evenly and despite its sweetness it is so light on the palate. The finish is one of my favorite parts of this wine. It just goes on and on and on. You can think for minutes, hours after you are finished.. so glad I bought a case of this, though not all at one time. serious wines for a sub $25 price at time of purchase.
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10/4/2013 - eoinhharkins wrote:
Consistent with previous experience - this is lights out fantastic value at $20 - enjoyed equally with foie gras starter and dessert
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8/23/2013 - eoinhharkins wrote: 92 Points
Still quite light in colour, wonderful peach, apricot, macerated pear and hints of honey similar palate finish seems to reflect the lightness with it's shortish finish, honestly hasn't gained much complexity since I first tried this but an absolute bargain at $20 I paid
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7/20/2013 - Phredd Likes this wine: 95 Points
NC Cindy Tasting, Pinot Noir (NC Wino's Stately Wayne Manor): Considering this is over a decade old at this point and at 5 Puttonyos of sweetness, it is still rather light in color, although fairly viscous. The nose is gorgeous - spectacular even. Cement dust, bright white and yellow floral components, a trace of bright apple blossom honey, a minimal creaminess, and some good tropical acidity, make this wine both light and deep on the nose. The palate has pineapple and bright lemon flavors as the most prominent component, meaning it is almost wildly acidic. I'm not sure I'd want this at much less than 5 Puttonyos, but with that much sweetness, the acidity ends up well-balanced. This does not yet have a lot of the "darker" flavors, but that will likely come in time. The finish on this wine lasts for a very long time, and you end up almost reluctant to take another sip for fear of disturbing the balance. But, of course, the next sip is just as good as the first. This pairs well with both highly acidic desserts like lemon squares, and with salty snacks. A truly excellent effort that should last for years if the sweetness holds against all that acidity. An excellent value at $30 per 500ml bottle.
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6/15/2013 - Wayne82 wrote: 92 Points
Very Nice Wine, one of the strangest desert wines I have tasted in some time. Hard to pin down the key flavors, but it ranges from nutty, to orange, peach, lemon and orange zest. With a strange aroma of secondary characters like earthiness or funkyness.
The acid is great and it seems like it is still a baby, give this one time.
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6/15/2013 - Grenik Likes this wine: 91 Points
Sweet, but still interesting. Peach and floral nose. good mouthfeel, robust, but not heavy. Good fruit complexity. Will improve.
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3/25/2013 - KVM wrote: 91 Points
Golden yellow. Sudued nose of walnuts, dried orange peel, brown sugar. Sweet, lemon, honey and very bright acid. This stands up to lemon cream dessert!
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3/9/2013 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is always such a pleasure to consume. Liquid of the dessert Gods. Golden raisin, honey apricot and candied orange peel leads to the mouth watering acidity and you feel the slate like minerality. The sugars are starting to meld into this dessert wine so the sweetness will soon be an afterthought in future years. The former golden apricot color is starting to darken ever so slightly. It paired so well with some Baklava after eating Gyros with a Greek salad on the side.
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2/3/2013 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Super Bowl 2013 (Cumming, GA): Tropical and sweet with lots of peach pit and orange peel, spicy to the point of almost being tannic, balanced finishing with nice acidity. Auslese richness. Very youthful.
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1/12/2013 - pdadams66 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Gold yellow center, pale yellow rim with no signs of age.
Roasted apples, unripe pineapple, citrus, sweet boytritis, tropical with coconuts.
Smooth, sweet, botrytis, ripe pineapple, coconut, a little spicy, caramel, great length (a minute or more), a little smokey.
Drinks well now, but will probably improve over the next five.
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12/26/2012 - Atwellian wrote: 91 Points
Some fungi/botyris rot on the nose. Viscous orange-gold color. Sweet apricot with some sherry tastes. Full, good backbone. Very pleasant.
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12/17/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 84 Points
Cos d'Estournel Masterclass with Valentine Bourrie (Caveau Wine & Bar, Shaw): Alcohol :: 11.5%.
Medium golden. Toasted hazelnut, sweet lemon and pear, seaweed and orange blossom. This is sweet and rich but the refreshing acidity as well as the black tea like flavors keep the mouth feel refreshing and lifted. not bad at all albeit the finish is a bit alcoholic and weak compare to the turbo charge mid palate.
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12/2/2012 - rocknroller wrote: 91 Points
Annual Tasting Group Holiday Party (Porter Creek, Mpls, MN): Only had a small pour of this. Nice tangerine and apricot with good acid. Viscous, medium finish. A bit of alcohol showing through for me.
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10/27/2012 - eoinhharkins wrote: 92 Points
This is an amazing wine notes of orange blossom, mango, apricot chutney, stewed peach with nice viscosity and a long finish delicious stuff
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10/14/2012 - Champagneinhand wrote: 93 Points
I truly love this wine. candied orange peel, dried apricots figs and a clover honey make this mineral strong dessert wine very special. Lively acidity keeps this sweet wine from being cloying. Glad I bought 3 more bottles.
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10/9/2012 - esh44 wrote: 86 Points
For some reason, felt like there wasn't as much acidity as earlier bottles I've had -- the finish was much less gripping as well. Strange... Still had the ripe apricots, peaches, and honeyed tones, with some cinnamon, raisins and toffee.
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9/22/2012 - Champagneinhand wrote:
Saturday afternoon at the Kings courtyard. Seriously great. Golden turning to amber. Pleasure in the mouth. The honey nectar of the Gods.
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9/14/2012 - GoBlue2002 wrote: 92 Points
Golden yellow in color. Powerful aromas and flavors of mineral, apricot, and orange peel. Mouth-coating with bracing acidity and full body. Very long finish with good complexity.
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8/20/2012 - amgryger wrote:
NY/NJ Offline at Aureole 8.20.12 (Aureole, NYC): Honey, caramelized sugar, wool (like in chenin blanc), and a slight petrol or alkyd paint component. Sweet and viscous but well balanced with medium high acidity and a long finish. Delicious.
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8/11/2012 - galewskj wrote:
Pop and pour. The front end was a great balance of acidity, fruit and sweetness. Good mouthfeel. For the 1 hour that I drank a glass, the back end was watery, chaulky and short. Leaving this unscored (I'll score the next one) because two of us thought it was improving with air. I did not get a chance to see how it developed.
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8/4/2012 - Champagneinhand wrote: 93 Points
Honeyed boytris island fruit. Some over ripe melons, but in a good way...apricot, pineapple and great honey suckle aromas on the edge with tangerine mineral notes. Excellent long finish that goes on an on.
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7/15/2012 - Racer117 wrote: 91 Points
Very good but pales compared to the 2000 Ch. Dereszla 5 puttonyos.
A sweet fruit profile, floral aromas, and substantial acidity. However, the acidity comes off a touch rough.
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7/15/2012 - Javachip wrote: 91 Points
San Diego WineSpectator.com Offline, 7/15/2012 (Casa Red Guy): Delicious wine with typical aromas and flavors of honey, apricot, and peach. Fresh and pure. Didn't receive any votes tonight, but if I was stranded on a island with a sufficient quantity of this wine, I would not signal for help nor swim for the mainland.
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5/5/2012 - vegasoenophile wrote: 92 Points
Toasted hazelnut dominant. Good acid. Nice, nutty and rich.
-Wine Spectator Grand Tour 5/5/12
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4/28/2012 - pizzler wrote: 93 Points
Wine Spectator's Grand Tour, Washington DC 2012 (Ronald Reagan Building): Lush, sweet, loaded with fruits, yummy, unctuous, this will last for decades, but don't know if it can improve, acid and tannins were lost in the sea of flavors
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4/21/2012 - esh44 wrote: 90 Points
Apricots, ripe peaches, and a tad of botrytis on the nose. Decent acidity on the palate with a nice, lightly viscous texture. Appropriately long finish. Not the most memorable bottle but certainly enjoyable.
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4/20/2012 - bullmrkt wrote: 89 Points
Ripe botrytis and raisin nose, smooth ripe palate, but not quite enough acid and lift making for a rather flat raisiny finish. Too raisiny. I was a little disappointed by this after the fantastic 2006 Royal Tokaji Aszu 5 Putt I had a few months ago.
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3/28/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
Sweet pineapple, honey, apple, spice and nut aromas. Great acidity. The wine feels fresh on the palate, with pure, sweet, ripe, honeyed citrus and tropical essences.
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3/19/2012 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Gorgeous, supple, but precise, mix of fruits and orange marmalade. Impossible to resist.
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2/5/2012 - Racer117 wrote: 91 Points
Soft nose of botrytis spiciness, apples, and a hint of petrol/plastic. Ripe juicy flavors of apples, pineapple, and orange marmalade. A real bargain considering you get 500ml vs. 375ml at a lower price compared to a similar quality sauternes/barsac wine.
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6/25/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 92 Points
Ripe dried nose of peach and apricots. Gentle sweetness of apricots, alcohol and sweetness is in harmony and finishes well.
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6/25/2011 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Girls Bake and Guys Drink (Pine Close): This was a lovely bottle - my favourite of the day by some distance. There were lightly botrytised notes on the nose, along with pretty scents of apricots, sweet lemons, and slightly tropical notes of pineapple mixed in with a bit of minerality. Really inviting stuff. After that, the wine was almost surprisingly clean on the palate. There was certainly richness in its sweet lemon and pineapple character, along with a layer of honey and spice, but there was always a good lift of acidity that kept the wine so very fresh and alive. Really decent finish too, zipping away with just a twist of orange peel and bittersweet zest. Very nice stuff, and it went beautifully with a lemon zest cake.
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6/15/2011 - WineBec wrote: 92 Points
A luscious wine with pronounced honey and butter on the nose...lots of orange marmalade. On the palate you get a medley of dried tropical fruits, some hay, lots of honeysuckle, almond, fig, apricot. Texturally quite thick and sugary, but with a medium acidity to keep it balanced.
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4/5/2011 - salil wrote: flawed
Corked. FFS.
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2/12/2011 - kellersc wrote: 90 Points
Tasted this against a Sauternes (Chateau Luduirant) with friends. The Sauternes clearly had more depth and breadth, but the Tokaj held its own. Troubled to justify the price difference between the two - have become more convinced about the Tokay. Raisins, apple cider, carmel, hints of vanilla. Went well with a bleu cheese appetizer and a strong range of English cheeses after dinner (Stilton, Cheddar). Highly recommend for the price.
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11/11/2010 - Badfish wrote: 92 Points
Cos d'Estournel & Tokaj-Hétszőlő With Jean-Guillaume Prats (Wine Exchange - Orange, CA): The aromas are ripe and spicy in tone with notes of white raisins, honey, marmalade, botrytis, and stone fruits. Tremendous gloss to the mouthfeel while the fruit is lifted by great acidity towards the finish. The flavors tend towards marmalade, pear, spices, glue, and barley sugar. The density of fruit is superb and really sets off the complexity and the long lifted finish. The balance, texture, and density are all very solid in this wine.
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11/3/2010 - beezer6 wrote: 93 Points
Jean-Guillaume Prats of Cos d'Estournel and some gorgeous Tokaji (Wine Discount Center - Chicago): Young fresh barn yardy. Still some petrol on the nose but much more of a fresh hay aroma. Banana, charred fruit. Lovely palate.
Big and rich but balanced. A massive wine. Just straight up tasty. I like when a wine has that "deliciousness" factor.
A little bit more of that plastic on the nose as well - but its really nice in a new product sort of way.
Really cool. An awesome Tokaji.
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9/10/2010 - Capt M wrote: 95 Points
Beautiful burnt, ambar, golden color with clarity and brilliancy. Awesome nose of apricot, orange, tangerine, and toasted almonds. Quite the exotic and intellectual composition, providing phenomenal nuances and sensations, flavors of beehoney, tangerine, apricot, hints of light caramel, hints of candied ginger, hints of vanilla, gorgeous acidity from the third quarter on, and explosive finish that lingers almost endlessly. Oily texture, full body, structure that you can sense, and marvelous acidity. Great delicious factor, and sense of priviledge, harmony, and perfection.
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6/11/2010 - Rich S wrote: 91 Points
Light golden color. Plenty of honey, apricot, orange marmalade, candied nuts and similar aromas on the nose. Honey, golden apples, and orange flavors on the palate with plenty of acid and sweetness to go around. This was an excellent pairing with an apple pie laced with caramel and walnuts.
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4/17/2009 - Rich S wrote: 91 Points
Similar notes to last time although the caramel and toffee were not as pronounced. This time the wine had more of the honey, apricot flavors going on along with a hint of some new sneaker rubber on the nose.
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1/8/2009 - Rich S wrote: 91 Points
Golden color. Lovely nose of honey, apples, a bit of orange. Great toffee and caramel notes on the palate. Super long finish. Very nice tokaji but I have had others that were slightly better for the price.
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9/29/2008 - Juha wrote:
There is no hurry to drink this. Cellar it few more years.
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