2015 Philippe Bornard Savagnin Côtes du Jura Ouillé Les Chassagnes

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  8/8/2022 - oxidatif wrote:

  Savagnin Tasting. My least favorite bottle of the night, the nose is natty, has that yeasty cider thing, a little reductive maybe? Tastes better than it smells by a mile, but still too natty/funky for me

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  7/12/2022 - Marc wrote: 92 Points

  Extremely complex wine, with age, caramel, old lime peel, cassia, green celery. Nuts, caramel , and apple on the palate, with a supple, round amd ripe texture. Totally out of the mainstream wine making, and all the more enjoyable for it.

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  8/20/2020 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  A single-vineyard Savagnin from lieu-dit Les Chassagnes. The wine is "ouillé" aka. "filled", i.e. it is aged for a long time in oak barrels, but the barrel is topped up so that the wine does not turn oxidative, like the traditional "non-ouillé" wines. 13,5% alcohol - weirdly, since the last time I had this wine and this vintage, it clocked at 11,5%.
  
  Youthful, slightly hazy lime-green color. Sweetish, somewhat funky and slightly weird nose with aromas of bruised green apples, some peach, light creamy tones, a little bit of waxy wild character, a hint of ocean air and a flatulent touch of skunky reduction. The wine is crisp, lean and lively on the palate with a light-to-medium body and precise flavors of pink grapefruit, some pomelo, light lemony citrus fruit tones, a little bit of pithy bitterness, mineral hints of cold steel and chalk dust and a leesy touch of creaminess. The bracing acidity lends tremendous intensity and sense of structure to the wine. The finish is crisp, lean and slightly bitter on the palate with flavors of pink grapefruit and pomelo pith, some tart lemony citrus notes, a little bit of Granny Smith apple, light notes of herbal spice, a hint of tangy salinity and a touch of steely minerality.
  
  A crisp, lean and wonderfully fresh Savagnin that is all about acidity and minerality. The nose felt slightly odd, especially at first upon opening, but the wine itself was just pure and enormously attractive on the palate. Despite its 5 years of age, the wine is still so very youthful, high-strung and still in dire need of further aging. Unlike the same wine I had 3½ years ago (which was 11,5% ABV instead of 13,5%), this felt even leaner and dried in taste. I wonder if this wine had been bottled in multiple batches and the first one had slightly more residual sugar? It sounds somewhat implausible that these wine would've been from the same batch, since a difference of 2% ABV would mean the first one would've had 30-40 g/l residual sugar, and it definitely didn't taste like that. Really a mystery wine. Well, no matter what the ABV is in the label, this is pretty terrific stuff. Recommended.

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  8/23/2019 - PatrickO33 Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Intense, strong nose; apricot, acetone, flint, soy sauce. Terrific!

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  5/6/2019 - Omar Khayyam wrote: 90 Points

  This is clearly identified as an ouillé jura chardonnay: has a little extra of both the yellow apple tanginess, the mouthwatering acidity almost unrivaled in the world of dry white wines, and that thing I can only explain as Jura perfume - perhaps a residual olfactory or yeast culture memory of all the oxidative wines made in the same cellar. This has intensity almost to match a vin jaune, with the acidity bordering on the too hard edges.
  
  If Julien Labet is Mark Rothko, then fanfan is Yves Klein, attaining an even higher and more pure but still perhaps deeper and more complex expression of the monochrome, then Bornard - at least at this stage, is more akin to Basqiuat.

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