2014 Clos Roche Blanche Sauvignon No. 2

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  9/21/2023 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 97 Points

  From a small capped bottle as part of a zoom tasting. Wow. Amazing on the nose. Tons of florals - petals; pollen, nectar. Golden. Minerlas and saline and pear and pear eau de vie. (Quince, acacia honey, underripe guava, pound cake). Vanilla. Extract. The palate is jsut as good - big. Powerful, crisp and tart and spicy. Endless reseves / quince and pear and minerlas. Hard to spit. Finish is saline and crisp. Long and wide. Mouth filling and exciting - spectacular. I’ve never been particularly impressed by this Cuvee before even though many of my wine friends adore it. Now I see. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 6/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 18.5/20.
  
  Day 36: Just a little left in a small capped bottle. Still Amazing. Quince and nuts and pollen and grapefruit. A bit of honey. Still screaming out of the glass. Salty and saline and tart. Explosive with nutty and quince and some dry mandarin. Coats the mouth and so energetic. Just amazing and confirms my first note.

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  7/29/2021 - Vas19 wrote: 91 Points

  A nice bottle of wine. Well balanced, has some of those green, herbal sauvignon blanc characteristics to make it interesting.

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  10/18/2020 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Lovely

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  8/15/2019 - JJKinch wrote: 91 Points

  Apple, lime, slight herbal, floral, good acidity, nice texture, lingering finish. Really enjoyable.

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  5/25/2019 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 89 Points

  This is my first tasting of this particular producer(s) so without the back story and with a little more age than most of the reviews, my turn to update all:
  
  Quince and wet grass on the nose with a soft rounded feeling on the palate that has notes of savory, quinine, and some minerality at the end. Very nice. (I know that that description may not have sounded exactly "very nice", but there is enough vague fruit lingering in the corners to support those more "striking" characteristics without getting in the way)
  
  Not at all clear to me that this needs more age but as so many of you still have a sizable amount in your cellars, I bow to the opinion of numbers.....

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