2018 Domaine du Pélican Chardonnay Arbois En Barbi

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  1/6/2024 - Oysteih Likes this wine:

  At Dyletanci, Warszaw. Right on opening dominated by strong smoke and dark mineral aroma, this blows over after a little while in decanther though, although a slight note of light smoke, but in a pleasant way keeps throughout together with, ripe yellow fruit, candied lemon peel, almonds, white flowers and crushed rocks. Great conentration on the palate, which echoes the nose, med + acid, med body, and a long juicy finish, with slightly too much alcohol warmth in the end for my personal taste.

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  11/25/2023 - PSPatrick wrote: 91 Points

  13.5% ABV. Light to medium lemon colour. Lightly reductive nose. Lemon, apple, young peach, grape, yeast, and chalky and salty minerality, with good, fresh acidity and very good length. Good tension, concentration and freshness, and great persistence. Medium-bodied, medium-complex, and well-structured, with good balance despite of its youth. Very integrated on day two. I agree with the associations with white Burgundy. A very good Chardonnay that should age well.

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  9/5/2023 - mrkurtz Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Super intense chalky nose, mineral and salty. A bit of smoky reduction coming through. Dense lemon pith. Lemon and laser like acidity. Tense and linear. Lots of length and beautiful slate minerality. Palate seems like it could be a little closed, fruit seems perhaps under-expressive. But still precise and pristine. I can see the comparisons to white Burgundy.

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  8/1/2023 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Healthy medium-intense yellow color. This seems in some kind of in between stage, the early primary energy is gone a little and the mature notes are not there yet. Nevertheless, a very pretty Chardonnay. Notes of lemon oil, a little bit of sweet spices, but also plenty of salty, chalky minerality, yellow fruit, also some almond kind of thing, a little bit of hay, too. It‘s medium-full bodied, with medium+ acidity that is sneaking up on you and a touch of alcoholic warmth I could do without, but what can you do in such a hot vintage. Good length. A pretty elegant Chardonnay from this very good producer.

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  3/5/2023 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Expressive nose delivering lots of Bartlett pear, golden apple, ripe pineapple and preserved ginger (almost like a botrytis character) woven with savoury notes of earth. The palate has a strident mineral-edged acid on entry, mouth-cleansing, that washes over and through all the ripe fruits. Intense, there is a flesh and the riper botrytic fruit gives an undeniable sweet feeling to the mid-palate. Medium to full-bodied, there is some power and the acid keeps it all in check as it dries the back palate and the mineral shards of Jura kick in! A riper Jura style that works well.
  This is their debut vintage for 750 ml bottles. Planted on a south-facing sheltered plot (15 yr old) at 400 asl. Soils are clay over marl. Use 350 and 500 L barrels along with foudre and 20% in vats.

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