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Mingling notes of citrus oil, pear and crisp stone fruit with hints of fresh bread, vanilla pod and wet stones, it's full-bodied, layered and muscular, with huge concentration, framed by chalky extract and lively acids...long, saline finish...
...subtle grilled almond and walnut aromas... The palate is exceptionally well balanced with a nigh-perfect thread of acidity...displays ethereal poise from start to finish and is blessed with a pixelated quality that distinguishes it from any other. Brilliant.
A perfumed and slightly minty nose offers up notes of green apple, lemon zest, algae and oyster shell. The sleek, delineated and powerful large-scaled flavors are shaped by a firm citrus-tinged acid spine on the exuberantly spicy, strikingly long and bone-dry finish. This brilliant youthfully austere effort is also going to require extended patience before arriving at its apogee. In sum, this is a knockout.
...stunning. The nose is pure, precise and multi-dimensional, offering up scents of lemon, pear, flinty minerality, a touch of oyster shell, beeswax, white lilies and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full and rock solid at the core, with superb mineral drive, snappy acids, excellent focus and cut and a long, poised and complex finish of impeccable balance and impressive backend lift. Gorgeous.