2019 Domaine des Pierres Seches St. Joseph Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  12/19/2023 - RichD2 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Nice fruit complexity, lanolin, moderately unctuous, highly enjoyable. Good finish with some acidity. The 15% abv did not bother me.

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  11/13/2022 - Stephen Rash Likes this wine:

  Intoxicating nose of apricots, peaches, almonds, honeysuckle, and slight hints of vanilla. A beautiful palate with tastes of apricots, peaches, citrus rind, and white pepper. Unctuous, but not heavy; the acidity gives a nice lift to the end of the palate and into the finish.

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  4/12/2022 - David Strange Does not like this wine:

  I was worried when the back label of this wine said it was 15%. I was right to be. The nose had hints of peachy fruit, but most aromas had been obliterated by the sweet, hot, alcohol burn that was actively repulsive to have even the slightest sniff off. Oh, how awful, those poor grapes.
  
  If it has any fruit or acidity left this would be a dry palate, but those had all been cooked away and one was left with the sweet burn of ludicrously high alcohol levels.
  
  Despite the alcohol level being at insane filth levels, this wine was actually boring. There was no fruit, no acidity, not even any dirtiness on the palate, all there was was the massively unbalanced alcohol. Getting the sensory apparatus in one’s nose anaesthetised isn’t all that interesting.
  
  It was an exercise in how NOT to handle hot vintages and was consequently fundamentally undrinkable.

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  12/30/2021 - wgmccallum Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Pale yellow-gold. Shy aromas of honey, toasted nuts, yellow fruit, with a hint of spicy resin. Rich honeyed fruit on the palate, medium to full body in a delicate acid frame with a nice bitter citrus rind lift at the back. Medium finish.13.5% alcohol. Simple but delicious aperitif wine.

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  9/11/2021 - eoinhharkins wrote: 90 Points

  Pretty nose of dried earth, red apple and lemon zest, medium body with a citrus rind core, though medium acidity it still has a fresh texture

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