2013 Le Rocher des Violettes Montlouis-sur-Loire Touche-Mitaine

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 85 points

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  1/12/2018 - SoundinBetween wrote:

  Nose of lanolin++, lemon, chalk, and white flowers. Like lemon curd. So much structure and tension here, just rolls right over the palate. Very good persistence, finish includes some mineral and lemon notes. Very primal and will likely be high-toned as long as the fruit is there.

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  1/12/2018 - SoundinBetween wrote:

  Nose of lanolin, lemon, chalk, and white flowers.

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  7/10/2015 - aekenback wrote: 86 Points

  This is really dominated by piercing acidity at the moment. Hardly any fruit to maintain balance. Might turn out fine after some ageing, but at the moment it's not.

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  3/9/2015 - forceberry wrote: 84 Points

  Pale lime green color. Youthful, quite fruity and slightly reductive nose with aromas of ripe apples, some earthy spice, a little but of gunpowder smoke and a touch of sweeter tropical fruit. One would expect a rich and fruity wine from the nose, but it turns out to be extremely lean, tightly-wound and almost austere on the palate with bracing acid structure, steely mineral core and zippy flavors of lemony citrus fruits, wet stones, some unripe green apples and a hint of quinine bitterness. The bone-dry finish is very long and extremely lean with quite austere flavors of steely minerality, stone dust, some pithy citrus fruits and a hint of quinine bitterness.
  
  A forbiddingly austere, tightly-knit and structure-driven single-vineyard Chenin with almost painfully racy acidity and pronounced minerality. Feels just painfully young and almost undrinkably austere at the moment. Might turn out impressive once the wine starts to unwind and resolve, but I have no idea how many more years it will take. No reason to pop any bottles open in a very long time. Overall a fine and well-made wine and one shouldn't be distracted by the score; it just reflects the undrinkable nature the wine exhibits now - I can imagine the score will go up a lot with age.

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