Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 94 points

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    7/31/2022 - wrote: 95 Points

    Tasted blind, this wine had a deep yellow center and clear rims. The medium intensity nose emantated apples, white flowers, lemon, minerals, and some almond paste.

    In the mouth, this was refined and yet still managed to be both rich and ripe. It had excellent integrated acidity and great length.

    This wine appears to be at its peak but should last for 5-10 years or so depending upon storage.

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    1/12/2021 - Likes this wine: 94 Points

    Some form of platonic mature burg perfection.

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    9/9/2019 - wrote:

    Flight of 88, 91, 93, and 2010.
    1988: Very good, but shy of the greatness sometimes experienced with this vintage.
    1991: Very very good, and a vintage that always exceeds expectations. Initially it seemed to be everyone's WOTF.
    1993: Lovely and fruit intensive. a fantastic wine in a fantastic place. For me both the 91 and 93 were simply gorgeous.
    2010: Very good. Some called this a "future" wine. I really liked it in the present as well.

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    7/27/2018 - wrote:

    Served blind. Dark color, bright lively aroma. Served too cold at first somewhat muted, then some lovely spice as it warmed up. Balanced and powerful. Outclassed by some other wines today, but very solid. Clearly some bottle variation from the bottle tasted earlier this year.

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    2/4/2018 - Likes this wine:

    This was so young out of the gate I wondered aloud if it were counterfeit. Then we thought, who would pick ’93 Carillon to fake if one were to fake a wine. And our collective experience with Carillon is not so much, so were were in uncharted waters. Tasty but so youthful it was shocking. Returning to it hour+ later the nose became grassy and for the rest of the night I thought it smelled like a new world Sauvingnon Blanc and the other tasters agreed. Weird, confounding. What happened here?

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  • By Lyle Fass
    11/6/2005, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

    (Carillon Bienvenue Batard Montrachet) This really turns up the volume for me as to how good the '93 vintage can be for whites. Muted aromatically at first but with beautiful precision and detail on the palate. Still a bit cold though with some pretty perky acidiy. But as this warmed up the wine really turned a corner. The nose grew more complex with many white flowers and green apple fruit and extraordinary minerality. The palate came together with beautiful symmetry, great elegance and sappy fruit. This was all interwoven on a bed of minerality with perfect balancing acidity. The fruit/acid/mineral balance was jaw-dropping and the length was exceptional. Stunning white burg that I will be eager to try with more bottle age on it. Love Pernot but this was on another level.

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