What Wine Is This?

Michael_S_Monie · January 30, 2018, 9:32pm

Okay all you closet sommeliers. This is going to be my State Of The Union wine. Any guesses what it is. Vintage is also required. (Note how similar the aroma and flavor profiles are.)

Wine Spectator: 99 Points
“Ripe and unctuous, showing terrific cut, with heather, white peach, green almond, Anjou pear, persimmon and macadamia nut notes all framed by a toasted brioche hint. Exquisitely detailed through the finish, this shows salted butter and chammomile details. Remains refined, focused and pure, despite the obvious power. Best from 2017 through 2030.”

Wine Advocate: 97
it is an exquisite wine with fabulous fruit intensity. Lots of acacia flower, anise, quince, fig and pineapple intermixed with a hint of white peaches emerge from this well-delineated, full-bodied, enormously endowed, complex, dry white.

larry_schaffer · January 30, 2018, 9:54pm

Aubert Chard? Koongsgard Chard? Just guessing without looking anything up . . .

Alan_Rath · January 30, 2018, 9:58pm

Not a Chardonnay, or they would have said so. Reads like a SQN review, but it’s not. Those are some wild and reaching descriptors for the wine it turns out to be (I cheated, so I’ll leave it for others to guess).

larry_schaffer · January 30, 2018, 10:11pm

So if you cheated and you mentioned SQN . . .

jcjouas · January 30, 2018, 10:11pm

I love Tuesday trivia! A relatively recent release of a Rhône white would have been my guess and after googling I know exactly which one.

Billy_Norris · January 30, 2018, 10:24pm

Unctuous is usually a descriptor I associate with viscosity/slippery texture of Rhone white varietals, as does “enormously endowed”. Salted butter on the finish implies salinity, which once again would be consistent with Rhone, likely northern. That’s about as far as I can get without cheating.

NED_VALOIS · January 30, 2018, 10:28pm

Sounds like a Chave Blanc/Chapourtier Le Meal

Alan_Rath · January 30, 2018, 10:51pm

Oops

Julius_L · January 30, 2018, 11:48pm

Based on the full bodied description and aromatics, I’m thinking a Marsanne-Roussanne blend, typically found in Hermitage Blanc. I think there’s a few years in the bottle, so I’m guessing a 5-10 year old (2008-2012).

CJ_Beazley · January 30, 2018, 11:52pm

Chave Hermie Blanc

Michael_S_Monie · January 31, 2018, 12:19am

There are no secrets in this digital age. It is a 2010.

jcjouas · January 31, 2018, 2:03am

I think that for the next Tuesday trivia (provided that you are willing and able to come up with another), that along with the pro rating(s), you should include your own tasting note as opposed to the pro tasting note(s) so that there is a higher degree of difficulty in determining the mystery wine than just googling a portion of the known tasting note. Thoughts?

CJ_Beazley · January 31, 2018, 2:06am

They sell it at Costco here in big D