On opening: very clean, pure and bright nose with just a whiff of sea shore and oysters. Broad, expansive palate that comes across as ripe and one dimensional. Finish starts to reveal some lemon rind as it fans out and tightens up. Will update after dinner.
My favorite of the flight followed closely by the 18 Les Clos, served blind 3 hours after opening. This benefited greatly from the decant, as the palate firmed up quite a bit and developed more complexity. Deep, briny with lemon rind. Big palate, but shows an acidic and tight palate that belies the vintage reputation.
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Light medium yellow; slightly subdued nose to begin with, good acidity, apples - after a while opening more up, some butter; nice, chalky, intense and rounded, good pointed (non-fatty) taste; long aftertaste; really nice, not that forthcoming to begin with but give it half an hour and it comes forward
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3/23/2023 - Wine Trader Likes this wine: 98 Points
Outstanding.
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10/19/2022 - llink wrote: 93 Points
Raveneau Flight (Angler Restaurant San Francisco): Decanted before dinner. Approximately 3 hours till pouring.
On opening: very clean, pure and bright nose with just a whiff of sea shore and oysters. Broad, expansive palate that comes across as ripe and one dimensional. Finish starts to reveal some lemon rind as it fans out and tightens up. Will update after dinner.
My favorite of the flight followed closely by the 18 Les Clos, served blind 3 hours after opening. This benefited greatly from the decant, as the palate firmed up quite a bit and developed more complexity. Deep, briny with lemon rind. Big palate, but shows an acidic and tight palate that belies the vintage reputation.
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1/22/2022 - Miceri Likes this wine: 96 Points
Light medium yellow; slightly subdued nose to begin with, good acidity, apples - after a while opening more up, some butter; nice, chalky, intense and rounded, good pointed (non-fatty) taste; long aftertaste; really nice, not that forthcoming to begin with but give it half an hour and it comes forward
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7/27/2021 - spineguy wrote:
Balanced super clean minerality with a hint of acid and touch of integrated citrus. Showing very well now. Curious what a few years will bring.
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6/12/2021 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 94 Points
semiblind
Not the substance as 2010, broad in the finish, missing acidity not completely balanced. 93-94
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