2018 Maxim Lannay Don't Take My Coconuts

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 66.5 points

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  2/19/2021 - Smellsworth Does not like this wine: 67 Points

  Medium orange haze in the glass, intense nose with hints of vinegar. To me it tasted closer to a cider than a wine. Still learning and exploring orange wines so I'm not sure where this is on the spectrum, but it's not really for me. Wouldn't drink again.

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  11/26/2020 - forceberry wrote: 66 Points

  Lot CHMAC2018, so I guess this must be from the 2018 vintage. 100% Chardonnay from Jura. Other sources say the wine is macerated with the skins for 2 months, others say the wine is vinified as whole bunches for 2,5 weeks. Don't know what to trust here. Aged for 12 months in old oak barrels. Vinified without any added sulfites, bottled unfined and unfiltered. 11,5% alcohol.
  
  Slightly hazy golden yellow color. Heavily volatile nose with aromas of nail polish remover, some overripe nectarine and a hint of funk. The wine is ripe, sweet-toned and heavily volatile on the palate with a medium body and rather wild flavors of nail polish remover and ether, some ripe apples, a little bit of nectarine, light notes of orange and a rough, vinegary hint of acetic acid. Overall the acetic acid seems to add a bit of sharpness and lift to the acidity that otherwise seems to drop in the glass as the wine warms up - I wonder if there was some CO2 in the wine, boosting the acidity upon opening? There are no tannins whatsoever. The finish is ripe, rather acetic and quite lifted with flavors of nail polish remover, some tart notes of barely ripe orange, a little bit of ripe red apple, light savory notes of phenolic spice, a hint of vinegary roughness in the throat and a touch of nuttiness that seems to grow into full-blown mousiness as the wine stays open.
  
  A rather poor, unbalanced and overtly natty wine that feels more like a very ripe white wine than an actual orange wine. The excessive levels of VA make the wine feel quite unpleasant. Overall the wine is all over the place, lacking freshness, typicity and sense of focus. A rip-off at 31,65€. Avoid.

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