A touch of baked apple and ripe peach. It has savoury mineral notes with some gentle nuttiness too. The palate is generous and heady and acidity moderate.
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Melon, slight candy floss, pretty fruit forward nose. Slight stony mineral oyster shell note here translates to the palate as well with a similar fruit profile. Okay.
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Fresh peach and preserved lemon fruits. There's a gentle nuttiness and good shape in the mouth. It offers plenty of flavour and a finish that is fresh with saline minerality.
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It should come as no surprise than a wine called "Grand Minéral" is heavily mineral, but this really good Chardonnay from Jura, hardly a common find in Ontario, is indeed just that, with minerality led by crushed rocks and a touch of slate dominating the nose and driving the flavour profile. But it's not just that. There are also aromas of lemon, white flowers, and white pepper, then both citrus and tropical (pineapple, mango) fruit on the palate, and early on, before it opens up, there's also a briny olive note reminiscent of a northeastern Spanish white or even a fino sherry, a suggestion of oxidation that provides intriguing complexity. It doesn't have a ton of depth or length, but it's still a very interesting, and certainly very enjoyable expression of the varietal. 88-89.
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10/30/2022 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A touch of baked apple and ripe peach. It has savoury mineral notes with some gentle nuttiness too. The palate is generous and heady and acidity moderate.
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9/20/2022 - chatters wrote:
Melon, slight candy floss, pretty fruit forward nose. Slight stony mineral oyster shell note here translates to the palate as well with a similar fruit profile. Okay.
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9/3/2022 - JerM wrote:
(Lindfield) Bright sweet, flint and gun smoke. Streaky oak. Mandarin sweetness.
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7/6/2022 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Fresh peach and preserved lemon fruits. There's a gentle nuttiness and good shape in the mouth. It offers plenty of flavour and a finish that is fresh with saline minerality.
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1/29/2022 - mjwstickings Likes this wine: 88 Points
It should come as no surprise than a wine called "Grand Minéral" is heavily mineral, but this really good Chardonnay from Jura, hardly a common find in Ontario, is indeed just that, with minerality led by crushed rocks and a touch of slate dominating the nose and driving the flavour profile. But it's not just that. There are also aromas of lemon, white flowers, and white pepper, then both citrus and tropical (pineapple, mango) fruit on the palate, and early on, before it opens up, there's also a briny olive note reminiscent of a northeastern Spanish white or even a fino sherry, a suggestion of oxidation that provides intriguing complexity. It doesn't have a ton of depth or length, but it's still a very interesting, and certainly very enjoyable expression of the varietal. 88-89.
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