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Vouette et Sorbée Blanc d'Argile Blanc de Blancs NV R20
DOZEN: $3,186.00 or $265.50 each
(review from a previous vintage)
An intensely citrus colored, white-golden shimmering beauty. Intense yet fine and floral on the nose, this oak-fermented (you don't really get that aromatically!) Blanc de Blancs shows an iodine and almost floral (think of broom!), intense and vinous nose like a fine Chablis. The palate is round yet dry, firm and mineral until the long, tensioned, well-structured and very salty finish. This is a great mix of ripe, lush fruit, elegance, finesse and iodine flavors-so, where are the oysters? STEPHAN REINHARDT, the wine advocate
The nose is a festival of white citrus and citrus blossom and cool, aromatic lemongrass. Verbena. Very very pretty. Like a song of spring. Lilting and lacy and looping and yet with these superbly mouth-watering wet-clay, cold-earth undertones. Clay soused in lemon juice. Finishes with wheatgerm savoury sweetness, which ends up framing the entire wine firmly and deftly as well as giving it a beautiful slightly smudgy structure to contrast with the precision of the bubbles. TAMLYN CURRIN, jancisrobinson.com