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"Beautifully pure, with salted butter, chamomile and quinine notes lacing up a core of creamed Jonagold apple and lanolin flavors. The long, creamy finish lets the chamomile edge play out elegantly."

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"Fully mature, with a creamy, fresh butter edge to its peach, plantain, almond and melon notes. Lush finish has a lightly nutty edge but stays pure and defined, with hints of heather and beeswax. A lovely example of the mature style."

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This Chenin Blanc has a very open and bright aromatic profile. It has a great deal of floral fruit, but also carries a nice fresh minerality. This is present on the palate as well. There is a good deal of substance and depth here, with a full mouthfeel supported by a focused, crisp acidity and..

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This Cabernet Franc hails from the Loire Valley. Its light in body, with a few green herbal notes. This wine has character and a significant amount of acidity.

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A dry white wine from the Loire Valley that has a somewhat richer texture from ageing sur lie, without ageing in wood. This Chenin Blanc has a minerally, earthy character as well as a higher than average acidity.

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"... Pronounced nutty piquancy and wet stone in the nose as well as on the palate here mingle with smoky snuffed candle wick and black tea; quince and white peach...this Clos du Papillon grips so authoritatively and combines such a sense of stuffing and stone without becoming heavy or bitter than..

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"Full-on apple and quince flavors provide the richness to balance the briskness of the soil character. This is sunny and earthy at once, mouthwatering in its freshness, firmly structured for aging."

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"Issuing as usual from old vines in several St Andelain sites (both Kimmeridgian and flinty), Ladoucette’s 2008 Pouilly-Fume Baron de L represents the latest in a line that constitutes the first-ever high-ticket “cult” Loire Sauvignon, though unlike so many subsequent contenders for high price and..