2005 Edmond Vatan Sancerre Clos la Néore

Community Tasting Notes (41) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  4/14/2024 - 14frimaire wrote:

  Singing

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  9/16/2023 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine: 100 Points

  Wow, again! And thanks to Alfert for supplying this, again. The 2005 is a singularly perfect wine; it’s got to be one of the wines of the decade. This wine is an amalgamation of tropical fruit, cold weather fruit, myriad mineral traits, and tons of synesthesia words… while I totally agree with the “every tropical fruit under the rainbow” description, I must temper that with the fruit is is no way sweet, or cloying, or heavy in any way. In a sense, there is the essence of pineapple, pear, peach, Fruit Loops, quince, apricot, tangerine, lime, with some apple peel and lime peel. The wine is steely, flinty, and possessing a perception of wet cut limestone. It has a quality that I can only describe as a fantastic dull citrus and steel perception. It swallows beautifully and is so long. It is the kind of wine I could spend all day and night with… “It is precious to me!”, said in my best Sméagol voice. Thanks a ton Robert for bringing this!

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  4/2/2023 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Heater week; 3/26/2023-4/3/2023 (Chicago, IL): I love the richness and breadth on the palate here, with that ripe tropical fruit note that you get from sauvignon blanc. Missing all the bad characteristics of this most insipid of grapes, this is an intense, rounded, and large-scaled wine. The alcohol pokes through a little bit, and there's a little bit of sweetness here as well. Quite stylistically distinct, this is the sort of wine that is interesting to try once every few years; it's hard for me to picture why I would want to drink this regularly.

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  1/23/2023 - NickNYC Likes this wine: 93 Points

  at first, pretty varietal and powerful. with air in the glass, the nose got more complex and opened up nicely. the palate has some richness which shows a hot vintage but it is balanced with a great amount of zip. very long and overall very fresh. there was significant bitterness that was tamed by the food (scallop carpaccio). no hurry to drink.

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  1/27/2022 - Robert Pavlovich Likes this wine:

  Beautiful nose, like a hypothetical blend of a mineral rich, pure stream water and a bit of ocean brine. The palate was pleasant but not quite as exciting, seeming a little tired in its maturity. This was surprisingly my first Vatan, so do not have the benefit of reference, curious to explore more vintages.

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