2008 Le Rocher des Violettes Montlouis-sur-Loire Touche-Mitaine

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  10/27/2019 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 Points

  (Mostly) Chenin Night: A waxier, honeyed wine - nor too oxidized, lively apple and pear fruit with shell, tea, wax. Really good stuff, paired well with the post-dinner cheeses.

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  1/23/2019 - octopussy Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Light golden yellow. In the nose, this is super fresh with notes of just ripe quince, greenish fruit, grass, wet stone, slightly waxy, reminds me of Chablis a little bit. In the mouth, it's equally fresh with quite prominent, but well integrated acidity, again slightly green notes (not unripe, just green fruit), acidity driven finish. Excellent.

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  11/30/2016 - sp4388 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Definitely more aged character than the bottle I had 2.5 years ago- some sherry like waxy, nutty, slightly butterscotchy flavors. Still has that very high acid, lemon/green (maybe now a little baked) apple core. Love this. Wish I had another one to try in a few more years.

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  6/28/2014 - sp4388 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Wet stone and citrus on nose. Tastes remarkably like a sour lemon drop, pretty acidic. Some adored this, some thought it was too sour/acidic, everyone thought it was really interesting.

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  12/1/2013 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dull golden with yellow green hues, looks more aged than I'd expect at this stage; nose has some aged notes of nutty almond paste, waxy lanolin, intense Kimmeridgian soil tones, salty, mulled green apple, luxurious and complex this is firmly in its secondary phase; the palate starts off with the nutty waxiness and apple then the final two-thirds is dominated by the extreme razor-like acid cut (disclosure: I love acid but this was almost too intense), flavor on the finish is a cross between a lime and lemon, my mouth was flooding with saliva in a milky sort of manner; another person thought this was at peak but I am positive this has a lot of life in it as the vintage probably develops earlier but the wine should stay in this stage for many more years before getting almost like a sherry in its latter life; a brilliantly complex wine that I would put up to many 1er Cru white Burgs.

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