2005 Chablis Vaudesir
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(bottled just two weeks prior to my visit) Bright, pale lemon-straw color. Tight nose suggests quinine, stone and exotic brown spices. Very rich and spicy but with a rigorous quality to its sexy flavor of spicy vineyard peach. Firm acids accentuate the wine's intensity. This spreads out impressively on the back end, finishing stony and long, with a touch of austerity that suggests it will evolve slowly in bottle.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Ripe aromas of peche de vigne, nutmeg and hazelnut; comes across as less citric than the Montee de Tonnerre. Then quite rich and ripe in the mouth, without quite the cut or pure minerality of the Montee de Tonnerre but with noteworthy concentration. Seems a bit hard on the back owing to the recent sulfiting.
VS Mineral nose, very tense and muscular and youthful. (JR)