2012 Chablis Les Clos
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This wine was tasted blind at the Burgundy 2012 tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Chablis Grand Cru les Clos from Pinson is missing some intensity and complexity on the nose. The palate is fresh and almost shrill on the entry with sharp bitter lemon. There is good weight in the mouth with a slightly nutty finish, but it is missing a little harmony and consequently dips below my expectation. It could well be that this is in the middle of a dumb phase, so I will forego scoring on this occasion.
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Richard Hemming MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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(bottled in February of this year): Deep, soil-driven aromas of lime and white truffle are lifted by a jasmine high note. Fat, ripe and large-scaled, showing an almost oily ripeness to its dense yellow fruit flavors. A distinctly plump and rich style that struck me as less classic than the Mont de Milieu. But there's more depth and carry to this wine's fruit. Needs a few years of aging.
Much less oaky than I remember Pinson being. Lively, mouthwatering green fruit. Good length and chalky mouthfeel. (RH)
(fermented in 20% new oak): Bright yellow. Sexy, musky aromas of yellow peach, ginger and spicy oak. Glyceral and deep but fairly open-knit, with noteworthy density and a fine-grained texture to its flavors of stone fruits and medicinal herbs. Made from a crop level of less than 30 hectoliters per hectare, this very tactile wine verges on thick yet maintains fresh aromatics.