2021 Sine Qua Non Distenta III

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 94.8 points

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  4/16/2024 - kzkpt Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Wow. Holy shit. First time having this wine. Entirely dry but so rich. 30 second finish, at least, with acid predominant but not souring. Not much nose to speak of. Just delicious. Had with aglia oilo, made spicy. Perfect. Sex in a glass.
  
  Note: Had some the next day. Still nice, but much of its verve was gone. Not usual with whites.

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  4/7/2024 - Jtrivasi Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Very similar descriptors to the previous notes listed. I absolutely love this wine. My love for the SQN whites started all the way back with the '97 Twisted & Bent.
  
  Obviously this is not the wine for everyone, but if you like the SQN whites, this vintage is above average, in my opinion and I'm very glad I sprung for 6 bottles. As noted below YMMV. Cheers!

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  3/5/2024 - fredb wrote:

  Medium yellow color. Hay, wax, lemon oil, tangerine, and some herbal notes on the nose. Palate dominated by alcohol with wax, dandelion green, preserved lemon, and thyme that carry into an alcohol-dominated finish. After a 2 oz. sample, left corked in cellar overnight and revisited. Fruit more forward after this treatment, with alcohol providing more framing than flames, but still overt. Resample in 2-3 years. Hold.

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  2/28/2024 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 95 Points

  I was intrigued to open this based on the below note. I don’t find the tasting descriptors of that note much different from mine but my perception of the wine is more positive. Waxy dense texture with honey, soapy florals, bitter greens, toasted/burnt brioche, butterscotch and orchard fruit. Slightly oxidative but tracks with the style and quality of prior years. These are never my favorite white Rhône’s but still enjoyable to me.
  
  Oak treatment pops out as need a few years to integrate but the alcohol is in check. A wine not for everyone but clearly less funky/wild than something like an Emidio Pepe Trebbiano that share some oxidative and bitter notes with wine.

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