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2/19/2024 - drjb Likes this wine: 96 Points
A number of Australian wineries have display panels, protected from light, where single vintages of 25 or more bottles of the same white wine, eg chardonnay, riesling, semillon, have been bottled under good quality cork and Stelvin. While the Stelvin sealed bottles matured consistently and steadily, those under cork are all over the place at 10 years with the diversity of outcomes increasing over time.
So too do vintages of Bonneau du Martray CC a potentially great wine owned up until recently by a family led by a great premox denier even when presented with one in his own tasting room ! My experiences are consistent with everything demonstrated by those Australian wineries described above.
This wine unlike others from the same vintage is perfect with a firmly in place cork and clear pale green gold colour that speaks of freshness. The nose is rich and fine with plenty of lemon, lime and tropical fruits balanced by honey, cashews, white flowers and limestone in the rain. The palate is gloriously rich with a mouthful of fruit, flowers and pungent minerality that provides grip and persistence to burn. There is maturity here but no hint of oxidation or undue development. In short this is white burgundy that we dream of - pungent, long aging, savoury yet fruit driven and persistent. If bottled under a decent closure I would have continued to buy this wine beyond 2002 !
So that's 1 bottle of 7 so far that's fulfilled its full potential !
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12/10/2023 - liber Likes this wine: 92 Points
18th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, leaner and meaner than recent bottles (last July 22) but with underlying depth and drive, hint of caramel and flinty mineral, citric edge, sense now of age and way off sensational bottle in 21, plateau, no rush. F (17.5).....bottle variation should be expected even for BdM's normally ageworthy wines (89 and 90 still going strong!!!)
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11/26/2023 - Burgnick wrote: 89 Points
Super youthful but lean and four-squared palate.
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10/4/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A magnificent bottle, pouring out fresh with a green tinge. Just a hint of butter and toast. There’s a sprig of mint and intense lemon fruit. It has some aniseed spice and a rigid mineral spine. It is linear, layered and has such great cut and drive.
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2/21/2023 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 93 Points
Simon Beatty's Memorial Dinner - Table 2 - Richebourg (Noizé, London): Great stand-in for a missing in action 1990. This has great power with white flowers and a little pineapple stalk to the nose. Elevage is well judged. Palate has great line and there is plenty of time ahead here. One of three cracking wines in our white flight.
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