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2012 Domaine Giraud Châteauneuf-du-Pape
4/25/2024 - vide Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dense in colour, ditto palate. Not overly subtle, but we can accommodate non subtlety on our palate when we have a wine that has depth such as this.
It is a peasant wine (and I mean that as a complement). Beaucastel may give you more aromatic complexity, but this wine does the job in its sterling simplicity.
It was probably half the price. I can't remember. The older I get and nearer to death, the less the price of wine matters.
vide = mt
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2021 Domaine Bernard Defaix Chablis 1er Cru Côte de Léchet Reserve
4/1/2024 - vide Likes this wine: 92 Points
I disagree with the below. The wine shows dry lemon structure on the nose, quite pronounced but not over-bearing. The palate (to use a crude term is dry). It has none of the hot house qualities that plague many recent Chablis vintages have but has those mineral qualities that all Chablis should have. C de L is not up there with the super stars, but this is an extremely and (in the present environment that calls for big wines) an intelligent and well-crafted wine. It is not for those that want 'wow!; more for the cognoscenti who can see that less is more.
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2015 Olivier Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Champs Canet
3/2/2024 - vide Likes this wine: 93 Points
I took several days to lose its fat (I wish that I could lose mine in the same time), but once it did: what elegance of structure and firmness of largely citrus based fruit. Great clear lift on the nose, and in the mouth everything comes together.
Truly excellent winemaking.
But you probably know this already.
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