2017 Domaine Testut Chablis Grand Cru Grenouilles

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  9/7/2022 - pavel_p wrote: 91 Points

  Poured a glass, and recorked to finish the wine a day later. 18 months since my last bottle and I find this a bit less convincing than the earlier bottles. This seems richer and rounder than before. Especially on day 1 is showing pronounced grassy notes besides the chalk and the touch of oak. Missing the delineation and tension of Chablis here. A nice wine but would take either a good Meursault 1er or even a good Chassagne 1er if I wanted a slightly richer style over this GC Chablis. Does not strike me as a wine that will improve much with more time.

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  3/1/2022 - lepetitchateau wrote: 93 Points

  Lovely flowers and precise white fruit, good delicacy but perhaps a touch lacking in density. Lovely minerality, classic Chablis character and terroir make this a very pleasant wine.

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  6/23/2021 - stayhappy21 wrote: 91 Points

  Tasted this wine at the Online Wine Dinner with Burnt Ends organised by Wine Exchange Asia tonight.
  
  Gold in colour with white flowers on the nose coupled with unripe pineapples, minerals, fresh apples, and cream. Offering incredible balance between acidity and fruits, with a well-crafted structure holding the beautiful wine and the elements nicely together in a tightly, woven package.

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  5/7/2021 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Belated Birthday Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): This was a quietly pleasing bottle. Quite reductive at first, with a matchstick twang on the nose, and then a bit of sulphur to boot, but these blew off slightly to reveal white flower notes, a little kiss of clotted cream, sunny white fruit, then ripe gooseberry and star fruit notes along the sides, maybe a burst of almost Sauvignon-like aromas of freshly cut grass, all these pierced with a lovely flinty, smoky minerality. The palate felt a touch light for a Grand Cru, but it had really delightful flavours, with a graceful dance of white fruit, winter melon and daisy flowers lightly laced with a quietly persistent spine of spice and mineral leading into a sneakily long finish. Lovely purity and transparency here I thought. Lightness aside, there was actually a gentle persistence and intensity too; along with its lovely cut and freshness, it was a great foil for a whole lot of seafood dishes.

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  1/1/2021 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Pnp after a 2013 Testut Vaillons. Wonderful fine textured palate. GC Chablis can sometimes have an almost oily richness I am not fond of but that’s not the case here. This is precise and full of minerality and much more refined with much better balance than the 13 Vaillons. Another great ‘17 white Burgundy!

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