2018 Alice et Olivier De Moor Bourgogne-Chitry

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  4/13/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  EYE^ Perfect clarity to look at. This is one increment lighter in color than a Chablis 2018 Bel Air et Clardy immediately preceding.
  NOSE^ The smell is a suggestively savage instrument. I gather a brew of almonds and roots, roiled with mint and twine. Cinnamon/chili; mussels; steaming southern biscuits; gravel.
  MOUTH^ The first liquid drink is confrontational. Properly vitigenic and searing acidity triggers a saline response. Muscular white fruit of pristine clarity reverberates fossil bone structure. The event aims deliberately toward a finish of bitterly appetizing vegetal scar—iodine, marble grit, mentholated lemon smash. It's big, yet grippy and austere in texture.
  TIME^ Development: clarity and sweetness gather as the bottle yields. The bouquet digs its heels in, to offer blanched resins, birch bark, greengage, and Champagne.
  STANCE (Cressbeckler style)^ I opened this bottle, vintage 2018, in 2024, well before it obtained its most accomplished expression. The wildness it exemplified four years ago is *almost* modulated enough now to appeal to an unmotivated, broad-minded, and discriminating observer. Naive bliss, stomping baby goat energy: 92-100. Appointed manners and precision: 90. Weighted avg. 91.

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  3/31/2024 - YagerWine Does not like this wine: 80 Points

  Even worse than the last bottle. 1 left. This wine really stinks.

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  2/5/2024 - SH Wu wrote: 89 Points

  A little bit natty on the nose on open - give it time to blow off if that is not your thing.
  
  After a good amount of air, this wine really pops. Fresh acidity with a core of orchard fruit, spice and herbs. A thick, creamy texture leads into a long finish.

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  11/27/2023 - YagerWine Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Overripe and flabby. Distinct apple note. Not my things. Anybody want to buy the other 2 mags I have?

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  7/18/2022 - Vas19 wrote: 89 Points

  Not a good vintage of this wine. Too ripe.

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