2008 Domaine Rollin Père et Fils Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Sous Frétille Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 87 points

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  10/31/2013 - kevinacohn wrote:

  Dull yellow in the glass. The bouquet is yeasty with heavy minerality. On the palate the wine is light, with hints of lemon, chalk, and wet concrete. This wine has a light touch--very subtle. Underlying that lightness is a zinging acidity and piercing minerality. The finish is on the shorter side, and the wine is bone dry in the mouth. I was left feeling like it was headed in the wrong direction around 60 minutes after having been opened. NOT RATED.

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  9/9/2013 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Smokey and spice and mineral. Its pretty darn out.
  
  NR "A difficult wine to sell commercially because its hard to pronounced and nobody nose where it is. But this to me is the classic kind of white burgundy that I feel in love with years ago. Not inexpensive but less expensive and a great value. more Puligny like and Chassagne like -- very high mineral, less opulent, more elegant. Why? Because the vineyards in large part don't see the sun all day long. Almost always these wines will give you a higher acidity level (including St. Aubin).
  
  But then very sweetly fruit and pineapply on the palate. The smoke is apparently from a type of Heather called "Broom" in the US, which I guess they have allot of that over in Burgundy. The free growing low growth on the mountain. SO is the smell "classic" or "general" or "added".
  
  Well, I like it a ton. Wet concrete to me. But I am being told its related to a plant.

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  6/17/2010 - Jossik wrote: 84 Points

  Uva spina e affumicato, poco altro.

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