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The October 2016 Distinguished Cellar Auction, Part I
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Estimate: $275
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"There are only seven barrels of Chevalier-Montrachet in the Sauzet cellars this year, with two of them new barrels, making the percentage of new oak here just under twenty-nine percent in 2010. The wine is utterly profound, soaring from the glass in a hauntingly refined blend of pear, delicious apples, tangerine, a magically complex base of chalky minerality, apple blossoms and a deft framing of new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very, very pure on the attack, with flawless focus and balance, a brilliant core of fruit, stunning inner tension and magical length and grip on the young and utterly pure finish. Brilliant."
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"There are only seven barrels of Chevalier-Montrachet in the Sauzet cellars this year, with two of them new barrels, making the percentage of new oak here just under twenty-nine percent in 2010. The wine is utterly profound, soaring from the glass in a hauntingly refined blend of pear, delicious apples, tangerine, a magically complex base of chalky minerality, apple blossoms and a deft framing of new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very, very pure on the attack, with flawless focus and balance, a brilliant core of fruit, stunning inner tension and magical length and grip on the young and utterly pure finish. Brilliant."
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The world's most versatile white grape, producing everything from steely Chablis to rich, oaked whites. Its neutrality makes it a mirror of terroir and winemaking, and the foundation of white Burgundy and Champagne.