2016 Domaine des Malandes Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  9/30/2023 - Alykhan V Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Superb stuff
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  Initially, dried lemons and pronounced minerality. As it warms up, lots of white flower aromas. Round mouthfeel with a lightning bolt of acidity. Subtle new oak. Lots of minerality on the palate. Wine is much more interesting and complex on the palate than the nose. Although I wouldn't describe this as a fat wine, it's definitely richer than it is lean or precise.
  Truly outstandings length. This really is an excellent Chablis GC. Drink now or over the next 5 years
  
  Left 2/3 empty bottle in fridge under cork and reopened today (2 weeks later):
  Dried lemons and mushrooms and candied lemons on the nose. Still aromatically quite intense, especially the candied notes
  The texture is a little thinner but still very enjoyable
  I actually think this wine can be much more long lived than I initially assumed

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  5/3/2022 - ozziewine Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Yes, just what you'd expect from a Grand Cru Chablis.
  Super elegant and complex. Intriguing yellow-green color. Earthy, funky, savory and great minerality that really drives this. Did not sense the citrus others have mentioned. Just as well because that tart citrus style is not a favorite at the moment.
  Ready on opening. Suggest a good chill as well, though that could just be a function of the Phoenix warm weather. We now do that with almost all wines from April to November.
  Drinking beautifully today and should hold for a few years at least.
  
  And a side note on the Diam corks (which Realm recently began using). These corks may be more impervious to taint, but they are hard as nails and a bear to extract. I've tried opening with the electric opener and the Ah-So (aka: The Butler's Friend) with no success. The only one that I can get to work is the Winged Corkscrew (which seems out of fashion these days). Is it just me or is anyone else having this problem? I almost never go wrong chalking it up to operator error so I'll go with that for now.

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  2/6/2022 - kenv Likes this wine: 95 Points

  A Burgundy Paulée with the Chevaliers du Tastevin (Hooked Market & Kitchen, Latham, NY): Lovely nose of crisp flowers and new oak. Bright complexity and a long finish. This is terrific and should age really well for another decade.

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  10/17/2021 - csimm wrote: 95 Points

  A top performer that keeps getting better, the 2016 Malandes Les Clos is juicy and succulent while still maintaining all the Chablis typicity you’d expect from this top Grand Cru site. The color is limeaide fluorescent yellow-green, with flavors of clementine, lime and lemon juice and zest, quince, and ripe yellow pear. Enveloping and viscous in a way that doesn’t ever burden the acidity and lift, with buoyant persistence throughout consumption. One of the best values on release.
  
  In a great spot now, but could hold longer if desired. Sealed with DIAM 10. Excellent. 94-95 points.

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  4/20/2021 - csimm wrote:

  My favorite Malandes Grand Cru, Les Clos impresses with its juicy succulence-meets-balanced energy. This is drinking beautifully now, continuing to improve each time I check in with this. Flavor details in my previous notes apply otherwise.
  
  One of the best deals in Grand Cru Chablis our there. Over-delivers for the price. I am learning that these Malandes GCs seem to come into optimum drinking windows after about 5+ years from vintage. Excellent.

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