Nine Months' Coravin and Huet 2008 le Mont Première Trie Moelleux

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John Trombley
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Nine Months' Coravin and Huet 2008 le Mont Première Trie Moelleux

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5/15/2017 rated 93 points: 2008 (from bottle previously Coravined, in Impitoyable}: 2/20/2017. Medium yellowish-amber. Reluctant tearing and sheeting but quite limpid. Redcurrant, linden leaf, and muskmelon quite prominent, over a neutral florality. Crisp acids and white tannins are followed by cumquat, but with any sweetness pushed into the background by somewhat of a witches' brew of immaturity. May also be made in a drier style. Finish tart but neutral, yet promising. 93. Drink 2023- 2035. (12.5 pabv.)

11/17/2017 from bottle Coravined 2.20.2017: 12.5 percent ABV; Rare Wine Company. Cork-finished. quite light amber-gold in color; sheeting with very few tears. Complex floral nose similar to men's cosmetics over sweet tropical melon, overripe peach and a little wax with end-touches of honey and incipient light tobacco leaf smoke. Medium textured but vividly acidic with perceptible lime zest and energetic vibrancy, showing little of its dessert-wine possibilities, due to lack of Botrytis and heavy extract (I hear only 6.5 percent RS); probably in the long run drunk when at apogee a table wine (think very rich Copper River salmon or steelhead). Beginning to integrate on its impressive finish and show an attractive texture dusted with redcurrant on its way out. Now it's a bit too melony for me but decant or give it two or three more years and pleasure index will improve. 93+/100RPPP
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