2016 Château de l' Eperonnière Savennières Croix Picot

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  10/16/2020 - dsamuel wrote: 89 Points

  Tasted single blind
  Brilliant gold/ starbright - actually quite beautiful to look at
  Medium plus aromas dominated by wet wool and intense minerality - the wet wool aromas took me to Savennieres immediately but these are much more intense than Ive experienced in the past - a bit offputting actually
  Really not much fruit on the nose initially, although some pleasant yellow floral and green herbs in the background
  Medium fairly broad palate of cucumber/ unripe melon and lemon again with dry rock minerality
  High acidity with medium phenolic bitterness and medium plus alcohol - well balanced
  This wine is quite monolithic at this time and dominated by this wet wool aroma which is quite intense and only diminished slightly with time in the glass - It was not there in the empty glass, which had more of your honey/ floral minerality
  I have faith in this wine based on this and would wait 3-5 yrs before opening another bottle

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  10/13/2020 - S.Wayne Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Single blind tasting
  Pale gold, clear
  Aromatics medium. Yellow flowers with secondary minerality
  Palate medium +. Acid medium + to high, expected crescendo pattern of Chenin blanc. No phenolics and alcohol medium +. Spice, brief honeysuckle and crisp yellow apples, followed by green melon over time
  Finish has a medium + length, but the balance was to the acid despite the above descriptors.
  Dry glass aromas of honey
  I would hold this a bit longer. Hoping for more intense aromatics.

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  1/14/2020 - cos65 Likes this wine:

  Served blind
  Bright gold
  Funky oxidative notes at first glance,
  But then mostly bruised apple/pear with a chalky finish. Dry.
  A more oxidative style of Savennieres, NFS

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  7/30/2019 - Joe Kane wrote:

  More crisp and chalky in youth. We are looking at this hard for BTG in Fall. Has that honeyed apple character you/ would look for in Savennieres, hay, mushroom. Delicious. I really want to work with this.

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  1/8/2019 - cos65 Likes this wine:

  Tasted blind
  Light yellow
  Light golden apple aromas
  Bright acidity with a chalky finish.
  Highish alcohol, but nice balance
  Lacks some of the oxidative and lanolin notes of many chenins, but eventually got there due to the inability to place it anywhere else.
  Very nice, but I’d wait, as the impression now is a bit lean

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