2013 Chateau Grillet
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Continuing the upswing in quality, the 2013 Chateau Grillet certainly ranks among the top handful of Condrieus in the vintage. Showing the cooler, later style of the vintage with its exotic mint, tangerine, liquid rock, peach and floral bouquet, this beauty hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, sensational purity, integrated acidity and a big finish. Count me impressed, and given the incremental yet rapid improvements here, I'm sure the best is yet to come -- and that's saying something! It's worth noting that Alessandro recommends cellaring Chateau Grillet for a decade before drinking. Given how good they are young, I think that's pushing it, but I certainly don't doubt the ageability of these wines either.
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From bottle. To be released in January 2016, fewer than 1,000 bottles in all. Pale greenish gold. Tangy, blossomy nose that I could easily confuse with Condrieu but it's tighter than the average Condrieu on the palate. Really quite luscious at the start and then it tightened up on the palate. Lots of quite obvious fruit. Softer and more luscious than the cask sample of 2014 tasted alongside. (JR)