Pre-Super Bowl Gentlemen's Dinner (New Jersey, USA): In my cellar since release. Double decanted a hour before tasting and served at cellar temperature. This was really a wonderfully precise and terroir driven wine. Crisp with chalky minerals, lemon citrus and tart apples. Great purity and balance. No noticeable oak. Long finish. This was wonderful with the Hamachi course! In many ways this was a perfect example of what Chablis is all about with nothing added. This was pretty consistently one of the top wines of the night. For me in the second tier close to the top with the 2008 Clos des Goisses. Perhaps the best wine-food pairing of the evening among many stellar selections! If there is such a thing in Burgundy any more this is an excellent QPR.
The Great Grapes of the World Tasting (New Jersey, USA): The fourth of six dry whites poured tonight. Really refined and precise wine. Bright acidity but no hard edges. Lightly saline and crisp with green apple, lemon and a minerally finish. Nicely concentrated with a rich mouthfeel while at the same time showing good energy and freshness. Excellent with shrimp and my Tuscan bean salad but different (better) than the Sauvignon blanc also tasted with it.
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This was a really lovely wine. Light to medium yellow color. Nose evolved slowly over the several hours tasted at first quite closed and mostly mineral and lime zest than later pear, white peach and mixed citrus. The palate has bright acidity that should support a long lived wine but not so much as to be excessively tart. After time in the glass and open bottle it got less crystalline and more round while still exhibiting a distinct wet stone character and having a finish that is powerfully lime and lime zest oriented. Very interesting with fresh fennel, my homemade sourdough wheat bread and smoked Gouda cheese as well as oven roasted pheasant.
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3/15/2024 - PaulHig wrote:
Better bottle
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2/9/2024 - oldwines Likes this wine: 95 Points
Pre-Super Bowl Gentlemen's Dinner (New Jersey, USA): In my cellar since release. Double decanted a hour before tasting and served at cellar temperature. This was really a wonderfully precise and terroir driven wine. Crisp with chalky minerals, lemon citrus and tart apples. Great purity and balance. No noticeable oak. Long finish. This was wonderful with the Hamachi course! In many ways this was a perfect example of what Chablis is all about with nothing added. This was pretty consistently one of the top wines of the night. For me in the second tier close to the top with the 2008 Clos des Goisses. Perhaps the best wine-food pairing of the evening among many stellar selections! If there is such a thing in Burgundy any more this is an excellent QPR.
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2/8/2023 - PaulHig wrote: flawed
Oxidised
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3/13/2021 - oldwines Likes this wine: 93 Points
The Great Grapes of the World Tasting (New Jersey, USA): The fourth of six dry whites poured tonight. Really refined and precise wine. Bright acidity but no hard edges. Lightly saline and crisp with green apple, lemon and a minerally finish. Nicely concentrated with a rich mouthfeel while at the same time showing good energy and freshness. Excellent with shrimp and my Tuscan bean salad but different (better) than the Sauvignon blanc also tasted with it.
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1/23/2021 - oldwines Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was a really lovely wine. Light to medium yellow color. Nose evolved slowly over the several hours tasted at first quite closed and mostly mineral and lime zest than later pear, white peach and mixed citrus. The palate has bright acidity that should support a long lived wine but not so much as to be excessively tart. After time in the glass and open bottle it got less crystalline and more round while still exhibiting a distinct wet stone character and having a finish that is powerfully lime and lime zest oriented. Very interesting with fresh fennel, my homemade sourdough wheat bread and smoked Gouda cheese as well as oven roasted pheasant.
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