1989 François Pinon Vouvray Moelleux

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  2/3/2024 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  From small capped bottles poured for a zoom tasting on 1/25/24. Tasted double blind on 2/3/24. The color seems deeper than wine #3 (15 Pinon Demi-sec): medium gold. The nose is sweeter and spicier. Lots of honey and feels like some botrytis. Palate is richer and more honeyed and it’s quite good but it lacks the excitement of the 15 Demi. Finish has honey and pollen and spices. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 16/20.

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  6/18/2023 - dhammer53 wrote:

  My friend Rachel and Greg brought this to a travel wine dinner in NYC. This was unfreakin believable. Everyone loved this sweetie. So delicious. Drink and enjoy. Oh boy if you own this.

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  11/26/2020 - coremill wrote:

  No formal notes, but this was delicious.

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  11/6/2020 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  12% alcohol.
  
  Somewhat evolved and quite concentrated neon yellow-green color. Surprisingly restrained nose with sweetish yet very subtle aromas of beeswax, some honey, light fruit candy and gummi bear tones and a hint of overripe apple. The wine is quite full-bodied, gentle and medium-sweet on the palate with quite restrained and somewhat understated yet relatively youthful flavors of lemon marmalade, some poached pear, a little bit of sweet grapey fruit, light stony mineral tones, a hint of honeydew melon and a touch of apple sauce. Moderately high acidity. The finish is quite acid-driven and rather long with somewhat restrained flavors of lemon marmalade, some tangy salinity, a little bit of honeydew melon and a hint of sweet grapey fruit.
  
  A nice, tasty and harmonious but also surprisingly restrained and underwhelming Vouvray. The overall feel is surprisingly youthful for the +30 yo age, but aromatically the wine is so reticent it really doesn't give much - and that didn't seem to change much or at all during the evening. I wonder if the wine is just sulfited to oblivion so that it ages at a glacial pace - but also feels very mute? Anyway, based on how youthful the wine is now, I can imagine it can continue to improve years, if not decades, more. No need to hurry. Priced according to its quality at 34,90€.

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  8/3/2018 - Enfant sauvage Likes this wine:

  This is good stuff. As others have remarked, levity and complexity are the key hallmarks of this wine. Perhaps bizarre but two the more interesting and prominent notes that I get on the palate are saffron and celery (powder). Very interesting, changed throughout the time it was open, but it was not around long enough to follow over an extended period.

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