2016 Château des Rontets Saint-Amour Côte de Besset

Community Tasting Notes (8) Median Score: 92 points

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  6/14/2022 - jvphoto Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Nearly translucent. Horse saddle sweat, sauvage, sour cherry, tart cranberry

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  2/14/2021 - Rollerball wrote: 100 Points

  I keep coming back to this special vintage of this bottling that stole my heart when I first tried it, seduced me into scouring the country for a few more bottles, and delivered as ethereally tonight as ever in the past. Only my third 100-point rating and very different from the other two. Smitten.
  
  Note: one bottle in early 2021 required 2.5 hours in the decanter for the aromatics to line up.

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  1/15/2021 - Rollerball wrote:

  Numinous, pretty, sensual, individual. Though it does straighten its collar early in the finish, slightly distancing itself for goodbyes.
  
  Also I realized it reminds me of another beloved bottle, the 2014 Puffeney Poulsard M. They are both delicate complex in that mystical, undefinable way, but where the Puffeney is on a slower and more austere, granite trajectory this is more fun, and seductively expressive; snacky, wild, and floral.
  
  I'm finding this difficult to score. It's sort of beyond score.

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  6/28/2019 - drwine2001 wrote: flawed

  2017 Cru Beaujolais with a Few Slightly Older Wines: Very pale. Really stinky. Light, earthy, bizarre flavors of apple (???), short, harsh finish. Ruined by brett.

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  5/10/2019 - Rollerball wrote:

  Special night special wine.
  Watch out it has a bit of sediment.

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