Cork disintegrated, but the wine is in tact. Nose is pure lemon zest, palate displays salinity, gooseberries and wet stones. Tilts towards being tart. Soft acids present on the finish. Well made but not my style.
Tasted on day 2 and moved my score down. This only works with food in my mind.
Cork disintegrated, but the wine is in tact. Nose is pure lemon zest, palate displays salinity, gooseberries and wet stones. Tilts towards being tart. Soft acids present on the finish. Well made but not my style.
Tasted on day 2 and moved my score down. This only works with food in my mind.
Oct 14th, 2022
I’ve had this bottle sitting in my cellar pretty much since I got back from Riyadh, nearly 7 years ago. I’m not really sure why I held onto it as long as I did but whatever. It’s open now. In the glass, the wine pours a brilliant, deep golden color. A fully mature wine at this point with a whole host of secondary and tertiary characteristics on the nose: toasted bread, apricot marmalade, feta cheese, nuts, Vanilla Tootsie Roll (the blue wrapper), sour dough, desiccated tropical fruit, warm asphalt, and alfalfa. A truly strange combination but it’s all there, whether you want it to be or not. On the palate, dried apricot, flan, and cashews. Medium acid. The finish is long. At this later stage of its life, the 2010 Jean & Sebastien Dauvissat “Vaillons” is not a wine for everyone as there will no doubt be folks who’s palate will not agree with the oxidative character of the wine. That being said, I found it rather charming. Drink now.
I’ve had this bottle sitting in my cellar pretty much since I got back from Riyadh, nearly 7 years ago. I’m not really sure why I held onto it as long as I did but whatever. It’s open now. In the glass, the wine pours a brilliant, deep golden color. A fully mature wine at this point with a whole host of secondary and tertiary characteristics on the nose: toasted bread, apricot marmalade, feta cheese, nuts, Vanilla Tootsie Roll (the blue wrapper), sour dough, desiccated tropical fruit, warm asphalt, and alfalfa. A truly strange combination but it’s all there, whether you want it to be or not. On the palate, dried apricot, flan, and cashews. Medium acid. The finish is long. At this later stage of its life, the 2010 Jean & Sebastien Dauvissat “Vaillons” is not a wine for everyone as there will no doubt be folks who’s palate will not agree with the oxidative character of the wine. That being said, I found it rather charming. Drink now.
Jun 1st, 2021
Awesome! Rocks and minerals, minerals and rocks. This means I love it coming or going. Seriously good juice.
Awesome! Rocks and minerals, minerals and rocks. This means I love it coming or going. Seriously good juice.
1 person found it helpfulDec 17th, 2015
Chablis, Burgundy, France
