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Member since March 2006
Locale: New Jersey, USA
Favorite region: France, Italy and everywhere else in no particular order
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2022 Château du Hureau Saumur Argile
4/4/2024 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 88 Points
30 yr. old vines, native yeasts, fully organic farming. Fermented in vats and then spends 9 months in neutral barrels.
Relatively pale yellow straw. Nose features Granny Smith apple, green plum, fresh hay and chalky minerals, but the fruit is restrained overall. High acidity confirmed almost immediately on the barely medium weight palate, almost choked me first time through. There's a buzzy vein of grassiness reminiscent of sauvignon blanc, light fruits, and a crisp, bone dry, lingering finish that conveys an overall green impression, however vague that may be. i've had this wine before in other vintages and I'll have to check, but don't remember it being quite so tight. Light fare and cheeses for now...
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2010 Bouchard Père et Fils Corton-Le Corton
3/31/2024 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Day later from memory. Dark cherry color. Lovely deep woodsy nose that was bursting with sweet black cherry. Medium to full bodied, perhaps a touch light for grand cru but excellent once rolling around the palate with a solid retro-nasal blast of dark berry fruit and a mineral component. No deterioration over two days, still quite youthful but very pleasurable drinking right now.
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2021 Sebastien Dampt Chablis 1er Cru Les Beugnons
2/24/2024 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 92 Points
I was not familiar with 1er Cru Beugnons, which is a section of Vaillons at the very southwest edge entitled among other sub-zones to be labeled on its own at the producer's discretion. Equally unfamiliar with Sebastien Dampt, a younger member of the Daniel Dampt family who makes his wines on the same premises and in the same general style.
Pretty gold color. Immediately enticing aromas of fresh lemons, seashell and iodine, with the faintest but not distracting herbal tinge. Good 1er cru heft on the balanced expressive palate, yellow fruits, minerals and a tell-tale saline, chalky and zippy acid finish with good persistence. Young but composed and a pleasure to drink even now.
I had a few drops left in the bottle at the end of the evening that had been sitting at room temperature for over an hour. Something told me to give it a go, and it was delicious. You want a method to determine balance in your white wine, here's a torture test.
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