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94+ JG.
"François Chidaine’s Clos de Breuil bottling is always a bit exotic in a lineup of other Montlouis cuvées, as this vineyard’s flint soils (like Pouilly-Fumé) give the wine a very unique personality. The 2014 is another absolutely stellar wine, delivering a complex and vibrant nose of quince, apple, orange zest, gorgeously refined silex soil tones, a hint of rhubarb, citrus peel and a discreet topnote of the lanolin to come with bottle age. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and far more reserved in personality than the les Choisilles, with a superb core, laser-like focus, bright acids and absolutely superb length and grip on the seamless and racy finish. This needs a few years to blossom more fully, but it has the depth and inherent complexity to give the magical 2014 les Choisilles a run for its money when it finally starts to hit on all cylinders. But, it deserves a couple of years to do so." John Gilman, View From the Cellar, Sep/Oct 2015, Issue #59 |