The nose is an immediate “wow.” The palate is springy like a ‘16 Chevalier Blanc I recently had. Excellent wine. My favorite in a line-up of seven Chardonnays.
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Drinking very well at the moment, and was surprisingly open from the pop and pour. It's still very lean, but the fruit has started to come around, and make itself present. There's some oak, but it's not fatty or buttery, but instead shapes this phony Chablis into a whole. There's such a refreshing, piercing acidity along with oyster shells, an explosion of citrus and just a touch of oak.
This would have been killer with a dozen oysters! I see no rush to drink this, but I also don't know if it will improve further.
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Certainly a very nice bottle of wine, but somewhat less than I had anticipated - solid, safe, decent - far less interesting than when I drank this vintage some years earlier.
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1/27/2024 - ID Likes this wine:
The nose is an immediate “wow.” The palate is springy like a ‘16 Chevalier Blanc I recently had. Excellent wine. My favorite in a line-up of seven Chardonnays.
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3/29/2023 - Rallerboy888 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drinking very well at the moment, and was surprisingly open from the pop and pour. It's still very lean, but the fruit has started to come around, and make itself present. There's some oak, but it's not fatty or buttery, but instead shapes this phony Chablis into a whole. There's such a refreshing, piercing acidity along with oyster shells, an explosion of citrus and just a touch of oak.
This would have been killer with a dozen oysters! I see no rush to drink this, but I also don't know if it will improve further.
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7/26/2022 - ID Likes this wine:
Light and crisp though not chablis-crisp; it seems like oak treatment is there.
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7/12/2022 - belfast taxman wrote: 90 Points
Last bottle and still drinking very well.
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4/9/2020 - IJC Likes this wine:
Certainly a very nice bottle of wine, but somewhat less than I had anticipated - solid, safe, decent - far less interesting than when I drank this vintage some years earlier.
Rated +1 on a scale of -1 to +3.
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