2008 Château Olivier Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 85 points

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  9/17/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 85 Points

  Starting to fade, this bright, crisp, yellow citrus dominated wine needs to be drunk up.

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  7/27/2014 - pjaines Does not like this wine:

  Grassy sauvignon blanc notes cut through with oak. Unbalanced.

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  6/30/2014 - peterchoy wrote: 87 Points

  Appearance: Bright and clear, the wine is of medium intensity lemon color, with legs.
  Nose: Clean, with medium intensity of green fruit such as grapefruit and ripe pear, citrus fruit such as lemon, herbaceous notes of grass and gooseberry, hints of maturity notes of honey, some vegetal notes of green olive. The wine is developing.
  Palate: Dry, with medium (+) acidity, the wine medium alcohol and medium body, showing medium (+) intensity flavors of green fruit such as pear and grapefruit, citrus notes of lemon, herbaceous notes of grass, some tropical fruit of passion fruit. The wine has a medium finish.
  Conclusion: Acceptable quality Pessac-Leognan white wine with a reasonably intense nose, though the complexity is a bit lacking, the wine has good acidity to bring a freshness on the palate, with a more concentrated flavors but still lacking the range of characters that one would expect. The length is also rather mediocre. Ready to drink now, the wine can benefit from further ageing of another 2-3 years.

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  1/28/2011 - DRS-Inc wrote: 73 Points

  Tasted at Zachy's Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux's 2008 Bordeaux Vintage Tasting @ Metropolitan Pavilion. Green & vegetal. Not a fan of this one.

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  1/28/2011 - amateurwino wrote: 85 Points

  Olivier blanc – consistent with prior vintages, this has some hallmarks of the terroir (funky mineral with a touch of stink), passable fruit but noticeable oak signature that results in a feeling that this is a little broad. Plenty of acidity here, but the oak and other elements don’t blend that well. 85-86

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