2013 Morlet Family Vineyards Billet Doux

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 94 points

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  1/6/2024 - Shay.Aldriedge Likes this wine: 94 Points

  My second set of wines to provide as part of a co-host event.
  
  I picked these up during a visit to Morlet in the fall of ‘21. Sadly, these are the last of my initial stash. 58 semillon/36 SB/6 Muscat.
  
  Poured blind for a group of 20 people at the end of a wine event, I was shocked that not one single person called this Cali. Many Sauternes, Barsac, and a few South African dessert wine guesses. It’s undeniably sporting botrytis flavors, but the richness has a wonderful spine of acidity. Honeyed mango, white peach and chock-full of orange blossom on the nose, there’s added candied spice and honeycomb on the palate. Didn’t pick up any nutty flavors (which I enjoy in Sauternes), but this was also fairly young. Extremely “fresh” for a dessert wine, if that makes sense. Best Cali dessert wine I’ve had, I think.

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  3/16/2023 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  A touch tasting wooded and not quiet tired but not depth.

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  8/16/2022 - GTFreek wrote:

  58/36/6 Semillon/Sauv Blanc/Muscat. 16.5% ABV, 125 g/L sugar.
  Intense nose is showy, fresh earth, apricot, quince, honeyed citrus. Palate is complex, spicy for dessert wine, really changes in the finish, honeyed notes, light funk, candied orange peel, creme brulee, vanilla, acidity gives balance, very long finish. Not quite a Sauternes style but like a CA version of it, and well done.

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