2001 Sine Qua Non Roussanne Inamorata

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  9/1/2023 - ews3 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Always a treat. I can’t believe this is my first time checking in on this in a decade. It seems to have barely moved. This looks undrinkable — brown as dirt. The nose shows honeyed fruit notes. The palate still has some stone and tropical fruit, but honey and gingerbread dominate the profile. Luscious sweetness is balanced with bracing acids, but this does drink sweet and little sips go a long way. The finish lasts until the next sip. Amazing and seems like it will live forever.

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  12/14/2021 - Cailles wrote: 97 Points

  Tasted double blind. This was my first encounter with a sweet wine from SQN and this was a more than convincing performance. At this point in the evening I already had stopped taking notes. This had a dark orange/brownish color, showed fully mature with many similarities with a well aged, 60 years old Sauternes with lots of malt aromas, beautiful fresh fruit core. New aromas with every sip. I feared this might be too dense and sweet but that was not the case: while not weightless, this had no excess weight or density thanks to a high acidity cutting through all the substance. The negative point here is that the nose wasn‘t as expressive and impressive as the palate is. This is a stunning wine and my guess is that my score would have been even higher if I would have had more time to dig into the wine (and less wine already in me). Stunning.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, no extensive decanting necessary.
  
  Glass: Zalto Universal

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  12/20/2013 - JeffGMorris Likes this wine: 100 Points

  Dena's Birthday Dinner with Mom at Il Palio. 375ml bottle #59 of what I believe was a production of 504 half bottles. Dark red amber in the glass and every bit as good as I remember the bottle we had about 6 years ago. If it has aged any in those 6 years it is nearly imperceptible. This wine would drink well for 100 more years but I doubt any of us lucky enough to have this bottle in our cellar will be willing to wait and be kind enough to pass these down to future generations! Filled with exotic and citric fruits, this wine certainly has plenty of residual sugar but is not at all thick and has a very vibrant acidity to match the sweetness and slowly wash away the tremendous flavors on a seemingly endless finish. I bought mine at auction so I guess I'm glad some people are on the SQN list and flip their bottles but shame on anyone who sells these on the secondary market. These people should be removed from the winery's mailing list so those of us who have been waiting forever to get on the list can. As perfect and complete a dessert wine as the finest ZH, Huet & Foreau. 50+15+15+10+10=100

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  11/6/2013 - jwolniak wrote:

  Sine Qua Non Tasting - Domaine Wine Storage Chicago - Nov 2013 (Domaine Wine Storage - Chicago): Best note on this wine: Lik-M-Aid Fun Dip. Sugar in sugar...
  
  I don't drink enough "sticky" to provide any useful notes. I agree with PS, though - where's the age?

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  11/6/2013 - tooch wrote: 86 Points

  Sine Qua Non Night @ Domaine (Domaine Wine Storage - Chicago, IL): Very sweet, with lots of peach, mango, and pears. The palate was just outrageously dense and sweet. Would have been better if there was any trace of acid on the finish.

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