2007 François Villard Condrieu Les Terrasses du Palat

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92 points

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  10/22/2011 - drunkstar wrote: 91 Points

  Age has helped this settle. Initially too sweet and honeyed but over the last couple of years has integrated beautifully. Slatey condrieu with a nose to die for. Yum.

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  4/27/2010 - Zitan wrote: 94 Points

  Fantastic. Profound. An explosion of flowers, pear, melon, and mineral. But I can never top the poetry of noppakit s.'s review (below), so I'll stop here.

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  9/26/2009 - noppakit s. wrote: 93 Points

  Viognier is my favorite white grape.
  I got this bottle from Colmar, Alsace. Having plan to drink in Dijon a day later but no time. Just bringing it along to Burgundy, Chamonix, Annecy, Geneva, then Zurich.
  
  Anyway, still showing well in everything. Full loaded of flowers...flowers-bomb, mineral, fresh scent of acidity, green and yellow fruits....a walk in the park....After 60 mins, hints of mild honey scent, dramatic, very charming, more easy touch than Condrieu of M.Chapoutier. The texture is like dense mineral water, very nice balance, freshy like a sexy, naughty young girl. Love at first sip again....
  
  The finish is killing me softly with happiness, blowin' my soul inside.
  
  My heart is in Montrachet...
  My love belongs to Corton-Charlemagne...
  But my lusty lover....she comes from Condrieu....
  
  Drink beautifully now - 2017............93-95/100..............

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  3/8/2009 - drunkstar wrote: 88 Points

  Younger than my other Villard Condrieu and same spectacular nose but definately a little sweeter.....maybe time will temper a little of that...lacked the slatey mineral tone that the others have and that really turned me on to them.

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