Drunk over 2 days, needed some minutes of air to unfold: pretty straight, lemon, some apples, salty and stony, some honey notes, excellent length. I prefer it vs the larger Vaillons 09, the recently tasted Forest 09 is very good too. No change on day 2. Drink it now or over the next 10-15 years. By the way: I was today in Chablis and tasted the 2020 of Dauvissat from the barrel: grande année classique, real beauties - unfortunately huge losses due to frost in 2021.
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Ripe fruit, mainly apple and grapefruit, with aeration salty, iodine notes are getting more present, the wine seems to go out of the honeyed period on a more focused and straight level.
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From 75cl, inferior cork soggy and pasty half-way back, wine unaffected. Such a relief to open a 11-year old Chablis which isn't premoxed or plain corked. This bottle exactly like the one recorded here on 25.04.2018: brilliant scent and finish (tangerine oil aromatics!) let down badly by the relatively soggy, flabby, flat, boring mid-palate. Probably better sooner rather than later, even if your bottle is as intact as this one was. 88-89P
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First bottle from a case of 12. This is in much better shape than 2009 Vaillons, much tighter, more strict. Opens up with notes of wool, stone and grapefruit/lime. There’s a brisk note of salt/brine on the nose. Focused with good depth and cut. Spices, lemon curd. Dauvissat the way I like it.
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Some Birthday wines (St. Anselm DC): This bottle has aged really nicely. Vibrant, salty, brisk and pretty but plenty of textural depth. Lemon curd, yellow apples, topped in honey, salt brine and chalk.
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From 75vl, perfect cork. Better than my previous bottle (11.01.2018), this was truly excellent at the start (honeysuckle-tangerine aromatics, fine skinny balanced entry), but fell apart on the mid-palate (soft, flabby, insubstantial) only to show a touch of true brilliance on the long, tangerine-oil and iodine-tinged finish. Go figure. If you are lucky enough to have bottles without premox, this should be good for several years, and certainly makes interesting drinking. 89P
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From 75cl, suboptimal cork stained halfway back. Once past the Dauvissat signature tangerine aromatics, this is an undistinguished, soft, low-acid, surprisingly linear and monolithic version of Chablis. Disappointing at first taste, and overwhelmed by a white fish dish with lemon/cream sauce. On this showing only 87-88P(?)
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Underwhelmed, overall. Nice sharp citrus attack followed by a middle that's hard for me to define except to say it's a kind of pleasant glycerol savory character. Creaminess on finish. A very nice Chardonnay - which is less than I had hoped for.
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The wine looks light gold colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like mineral and a hint of lilac. It tastes like mineral and and a little alcohol. The body is light/medium. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity.
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Begins well, with seashells, good fruit, full, not too ripe, nice body, not fat nor tropical, respectable acidity. Any concerns I had about '09 seem to be allayed. But after a couple of hours, the palate grows diffuse, with light grapefruit notes, but seems empty in the middle, touches of alcohol showing.
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Upon uncorking, immediately opens to lots of wool. This recedes as the palate widens to include clear citrus notes and lighter wool, with rounded sides. The center here shows rounder also, the wine has less cut, more '09 than '07, but despite this, the underlying acidity is still respectable and sort of sneaks up on you, showing prominently on the surprisingly longer than expected finish. Overall, this seems to reflect the vintage, showing less stuffing and slightly rounder, and is somewhat diffuse. Perhaps this will gain its poise with another year or so in the cellar.
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Yup, Jeremy Holmes is spot-on with the honeysuckle on this nose. It's a bright, happy nose, the honeysuckle giving good high notes, not overbearing, almost like a light Condrieu. The palate is open and forward, young, friendly as a puppy, and veers to a lightly sweet side, and I'm thinking that this is young and pulpy and bright like a recent release Sancerre. The second night, the honeysuckle is more in the background, this is showing more classic Chablis like, more seashell and minerals and even some wooly notes. Very enjoyable.
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Bad to the Beaune (Tung Lok Signatures, Central): I thought this was a lovely 1er Cru. It was off-theme, but it turned out to be my favourite white of the night. It had a nose that could have been ripe enough to have come from the Cote d'Or, with sweet lemons scents, white apple flesh, a bit of spice and slighty honeyed undertone. But with time, there were enough saline minerality and earthy nuances that swirled out on the bouquet to pin this down as a Chablis. Very pleasant, but it was actually the palate that got me, with its chalky, seashelly attack with some beautiful smoky minerality forming a frame for a midpalate of rich white fruit, think pears and apples, lanced by a spear of lemony citrus notes. The finish had a nice length too. Mid-weight rather than powerful, while kissed with some of the sweetness of the vintage, this was accompanied by all the beautiful foucs, definition and balance you expect from a good Dauvissat bottling. Excellent - this should show really well over the short to medium term.
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Honeysuckle is synonymous with 09 and there’s some here but it is in fact one of the most pure, paired back Chablis that I have tried from this vintage. It is a wine of great poise and tension with plenty of lime, iodine and great line. It works within a relatively compact and narrow channel in the mouth and the finish is laden with chalk.
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Cellar Tasting with Vincent Dauvissat--Mostly 2009s (Chablis): The first wine to lead with fruit aromatics that say "2009". Underipe pineapple and transiently sweet entry, but this is deceptive as the wine is no more than mid-weight and the mineral structure strongly asserts itself on the finish.
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5/15/2022 - MJReb wrote: 92 Points
Stony and iodine, good tension and length, there is lot of citrus and some honey. In a good spot right now.
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6/4/2021 - MJReb wrote: 92 Points
Drunk over 2 days, needed some minutes of air to unfold: pretty straight, lemon, some apples, salty and stony, some honey notes, excellent length. I prefer it vs the larger Vaillons 09, the recently tasted Forest 09 is very good too. No change on day 2. Drink it now or over the next 10-15 years.
By the way: I was today in Chablis and tasted the 2020 of Dauvissat from the barrel: grande année classique, real beauties - unfortunately huge losses due to frost in 2021.
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2/5/2021 - MJReb wrote: 91 Points
Ripe fruit, mainly apple and grapefruit, with aeration salty, iodine notes are getting more present, the wine seems to go out of the honeyed period on a more focused and straight level.
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11/2/2020 - honest bob wrote: 89 Points
From 75cl, inferior cork soggy and pasty half-way back, wine unaffected. Such a relief to open a 11-year old Chablis which isn't premoxed or plain corked. This bottle exactly like the one recorded here on 25.04.2018: brilliant scent and finish (tangerine oil aromatics!) let down badly by the relatively soggy, flabby, flat, boring mid-palate. Probably better sooner rather than later, even if your bottle is as intact as this one was. 88-89P
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2/2/2020 - pbaek wrote:
First bottle from a case of 12. This is in much better shape than 2009 Vaillons, much tighter, more strict. Opens up with notes of wool, stone and grapefruit/lime. There’s a brisk note of salt/brine on the nose. Focused with good depth and cut. Spices, lemon curd. Dauvissat the way I like it.
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9/26/2019 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 92 Points
Some Birthday wines (St. Anselm DC): This bottle has aged really nicely. Vibrant, salty, brisk and pretty but plenty of textural depth. Lemon curd, yellow apples, topped in honey, salt brine and chalk.
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5/2/2018 - rocknroller wrote: flawed
Matt's Big 5-0 Birthday Bash (Heirloom, St.Paul, MN): Corked. Same bottle as Bellissimo.
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5/2/2018 - Bellissimo wrote: flawed
Corked
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4/25/2018 - honest bob wrote: 89 Points
From 75vl, perfect cork. Better than my previous bottle (11.01.2018), this was truly excellent at the start (honeysuckle-tangerine aromatics, fine skinny balanced entry), but fell apart on the mid-palate (soft, flabby, insubstantial) only to show a touch of true brilliance on the long, tangerine-oil and iodine-tinged finish. Go figure. If you are lucky enough to have bottles without premox, this should be good for several years, and certainly makes interesting drinking. 89P
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1/11/2018 - honest bob wrote: 88 Points
From 75cl, suboptimal cork stained halfway back. Once past the Dauvissat signature tangerine aromatics, this is an undistinguished, soft, low-acid, surprisingly linear and monolithic version of Chablis. Disappointing at first taste, and overwhelmed by a white fish dish with lemon/cream sauce. On this showing only 87-88P(?)
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6/24/2017 - Necowine wrote: 88 Points
Underwhelmed, overall. Nice sharp citrus attack followed by a middle that's hard for me to define except to say it's a kind of pleasant glycerol savory character. Creaminess on finish. A very nice Chardonnay - which is less than I had hoped for.
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8/17/2014 - Yapdiver Likes this wine: 89 Points
The wine looks light gold colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like mineral and a hint of lilac. It tastes like mineral and and a little alcohol. The body is light/medium. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity.
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7/23/2013 - Pknut wrote:
Begins well, with seashells, good fruit, full, not too ripe, nice body, not fat nor tropical, respectable acidity. Any concerns I had about '09 seem to be allayed. But after a couple of hours, the palate grows diffuse, with light grapefruit notes, but seems empty in the middle, touches of alcohol showing.
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5/15/2013 - Pknut wrote:
Upon uncorking, immediately opens to lots of wool. This recedes as the palate widens to include clear citrus notes and lighter wool, with rounded sides. The center here shows rounder also, the wine has less cut, more '09 than '07, but despite this, the underlying acidity is still respectable and sort of sneaks up on you, showing prominently on the surprisingly longer than expected finish. Overall, this seems to reflect the vintage, showing less stuffing and slightly rounder, and is somewhat diffuse. Perhaps this will gain its poise with another year or so in the cellar.
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3/23/2012 - Pknut wrote:
Yup, Jeremy Holmes is spot-on with the honeysuckle on this nose. It's a bright, happy nose, the honeysuckle giving good high notes, not overbearing, almost like a light Condrieu. The palate is open and forward, young, friendly as a puppy, and veers to a lightly sweet side, and I'm thinking that this is young and pulpy and bright like a recent release Sancerre. The second night, the honeysuckle is more in the background, this is showing more classic Chablis like, more seashell and minerals and even some wooly notes. Very enjoyable.
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2/17/2012 - Mingmong wrote: 91 Points
Clear fresh mineral nose. Gentle balance, some crushed stone, and soft white fruit.
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2/17/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Bad to the Beaune (Tung Lok Signatures, Central): I thought this was a lovely 1er Cru. It was off-theme, but it turned out to be my favourite white of the night. It had a nose that could have been ripe enough to have come from the Cote d'Or, with sweet lemons scents, white apple flesh, a bit of spice and slighty honeyed undertone. But with time, there were enough saline minerality and earthy nuances that swirled out on the bouquet to pin this down as a Chablis. Very pleasant, but it was actually the palate that got me, with its chalky, seashelly attack with some beautiful smoky minerality forming a frame for a midpalate of rich white fruit, think pears and apples, lanced by a spear of lemony citrus notes. The finish had a nice length too. Mid-weight rather than powerful, while kissed with some of the sweetness of the vintage, this was accompanied by all the beautiful foucs, definition and balance you expect from a good Dauvissat bottling. Excellent - this should show really well over the short to medium term.
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2/17/2012 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points
High acidity with lime skins and lemons but not as high as the raveneau. Drinking now but not so expressive. Very monolithic.
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12/27/2011 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Honeysuckle is synonymous with 09 and there’s some here but it is in fact one of the most pure, paired back Chablis that I have tried from this vintage. It is a wine of great poise and tension with plenty of lime, iodine and great line. It works within a relatively compact and narrow channel in the mouth and the finish is laden with chalk.
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11/10/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:
Cellar Tasting with Vincent Dauvissat--Mostly 2009s (Chablis): The first wine to lead with fruit aromatics that say "2009". Underipe pineapple and transiently sweet entry, but this is deceptive as the wine is no more than mid-weight and the mineral structure strongly asserts itself on the finish.
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