2001 Chateau Musar Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (97) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  3/23/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine:

  What wine goes with Chinese food? Dinner (Phoenix Palace London): Served blind (by me, so I knew what it was...) deep colour, almost orange, the palate and nose are fresher than this. A kind of soapy or waxy mouthfeel, the fruit is still there and there is a lovely framing from the oxidative character. Of the oxy flight, to me it sat between the Tondoniae in terms of loveliness.

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  3/20/2024 - NickA Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Presented blind in a label-less Riesling bottle. Obviously not Riesling, though. Then someone promptly called it as Musar :-)
  
  Deep orange. Subtle but funky nose. Again subtle, even a bit weak, on the palate - served too cold? A touch of rose petal, very slightly sweet, and creamier with air. I definitely liked this, but not as much as the Tondos.

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  3/8/2024 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points

  Lunch at Noizé: Full gold. A touch of orange blossom on the nose when first opening with an unctuous texture. Three hours on this has tightened and calmed a little. Waxy and leggy. There’s a surprising lightness and line here with filigree. O peel it’s woven around it. Another wine I’ve not looked at for over a decade, and time has served it well, perhaps freshening it a little. A clear step up from 04 currently, and a more complete wine. ****

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  10/2/2023 - kuumies wrote:

  Tasted blind. A golden color with an amber hue. A very mature, pungeant nose with notes of dried fruits, almond, wood and a citrusy edge. On the palate relatively full-bodied and thick with mild acidity. Not a lot of fruity character but it has plenty of secondary flavor and plenty of life left. An acquired taste, but interesting for sure.

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  9/27/2023 - ekorn wrote:

  Brought this bottle to a Musar dinner which included the '95, '01, '10, and '13 blanc.
  
  This bottle was opened but not decanted around an hour and a half before serving. It was probably served around cellar temperature evolve (positively) as it continued to warm up over the evening. Initially, the nose on this was quite quiet, but the palate was strong from the start with an almost chenin blanc-y character. Quite fresh for a 22-year-old wine. This was drinking best at the end of the night -- much more open. I think this bottle would have benefitted from a relatively lengthy decant (a couple of hours, at least). This was my favorite of the whites we opened -- plenty of aged characteristics (distinguishing it from the '10 and '13 which seemed relatively anonymous to me) but not nearly as sherry-like as the '95.

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