Sauvignon-driven
Bordeaux Blanc. Quite gold (a lot of barrel aging?) with a fair lick of
Riesling-esque petrol and a white southern Rhône style sulphur-and-matches when
it’s been well-aerated (a trot back from the restaurant with no cork in the
bottle). Lovely underlying fruit: passionfruit behind the smoke. N1 reports to
me that when it was originally opened it was lemon, wax and cabbage. Acid levels
are not huge, so this is probably not a very long-term ager (and
Sauvignon-driven BB does tend to blossom, and perhaps fade too, faster than its
Sémillon-driven counterpart), but for the foreseeable future this is divine.
93/100
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