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2020 Domaine Bachelet-Monnot Puligny-Montrachet
4/29/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
Really great villages wine, very top quality. Opened at 1 and poured off a taste, pretty reductive so decanted and sealed til we got into at about 6:30. Pronounced marine minerality on the nose, assertive salt water, chalk, and sea shell. Also there is some fruit, but it’s subtle, some pineapple and hints of cantaloupe. I know that sounds weird but I’m talking about hints on the nose, the warm vintage gave this almost tropical nuance to whatever wisps of fruit are discernible. The body is very much Puligny, firm and lithe and for lack of a better word, more cylindrical and lean that what I experience with Chassagne and Meursault. It’s a perfectly composed and balanced wine on the nose and palate, so classy, and so dense and impactful in aroma and flavor without any excess weight at all. The lady drinking blind said “I was thinking this is Chablis because of the minerality on the nose but it doesn’t really taste like Chablis, the fruit is different.” I thought that was quite perceptive.
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2021 Romain Chamiot Vin de Savoie
4/25/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
Excellent wine - I've gone through a half case of it at sale prices below $20 per bottle, and at that price it's an outstanding value. Light bodied like a Jura red, but the fruit is darker and there are peppery notes too, and something leafy. This comes from old vines and has good intenisty without any real weight. Needs a bit of air but not so much, especially now. Two years ago it needed a decant, it's pretty much good to go now.
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2017 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses
4/25/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
Pulled the cork at noon and poured off a taste - pretty tight. Decanted at 6 an hour before drinking. This is excellent wine, as it is in every vintage. There is plush dark fruit that is completely shot through with dried flowers and smoke. It reminds me more of some right bank Bdx wines more than it does of the green pepper and lead pencil that other Picasses vintages can show. Its perfectly balanced and at 12.5% I think this will age gracefully for a long long time, and should become a beautifully expressive and harmonious wine. The thing is, it's so delicious and satisfying now after a decant that it will be hard to keep my hands off it...
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