2009 Domaine Pavelot (Jean-Marc et Hugues) Corton Blanc

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  3/14/2013 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points

  Dim Sum Club at Park Palace (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): This was a really strange wine. An unsual white Corton Grand Cru, there was some quality to it, but it was nowhere quite near drinking. The nose was absolutely dominated by sweet scents of grated coconut which drifted out of the glass like a halo around ripe stone fruit, aromas, with little bits of caramel, earth and mineral at the rear. I just could not get past that super-coconutty character. Someone remarked that only Pape Clement in d'Yquem in Bordeaux have oak treatments that bring their young wines close in tone. Same thing on the palate. There was a nice rich 2009 quality to it, yet with a good supple depth and nice balance to its ripe notes of honey and mangoes laced with a tangerine-like acidity. Quite yummy actually, and it had a nice spine too, with deeply buried mineral notes pulling away into a more honeyed back-palate. Unfortunately though, there coconut reared its head again, big-time, at the finish, where it came to dominate the wine entirely. This bore more resemblance to our coconut and mango dessert than the blanc de blancs sparkler we had on the table in fact! All in all, I think there is pretty good stuff in here, but it will take quite a few years before the oak lifts up.

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