Golden, light medium bodied, unoaked with a beautifully concentrated flavour of butter and strawberry with a hint of Macon apple.

No Macon or unoaked Chablis even comes close to this.

Staggeringly gorgeous.

Mr G, I do understand why you'll love this '09 St.V vintage. Your drinking date was damn near perfect for an unoaked and ripe white southern burg.

Good taffing value, and another sub tenner heroine this year.

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2010

Golden but with much higher acidity than the 09. Pungent flavour is spot on but the acid spoils it. Probably just needs time.

Mr G, I just dont know enough, I don't get a chance to try enough without shelling out all of the time.

What I do know is that South to North, the côte chalonnaise and northern Maconnais out performed Chablis for the 2009 harvest at the relative price point. It's all to do with the malo fermentation, they say. Some chardonnay whites in the southern area were exceptional in 2009, whilst in Chablis they were too soft (for me) at the cheaper end. Au Mont probably harvested ripe fresh fruit that was perfect earlier than usual.

Look for a reputable Pouilly-Fuisse on the 2009, and you may get even more mineral / terroire pleasure than the Au Mont 2009. For a tenner you got a very nice wine, Fuisse will be a drop more though.

Time of itself will not fix an over citric chardonnay, yet, you may well be right about the possible outcome, don't bank on it though .

Was the 2010 wine still £9.99 ?

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£9.99

MrD

The 2010 was not good at any temperature. I will give it a year until I buy another and be prepared for an acidic flop. Shame, as I love this when it's right.

Chardonnay's answer to Jackson Estate MSB. ( in my head )

I thought that all Pouilly Fuisse was oaked. Marks have many new white Burgundies in store.....have you had a look recently ?

I think that could be a misconception, may be because historically, the UK imported much more oaked Pouilly Fuisse ? I don't know the statistics. Ba will look them up for us or Mel has studied this.
There is as much PF made without oak these days, some say that traditional PF is an unaoked wine ! I believe that more unoaked PF is drunk locally in the region The ones you may want to try will be as expensive as the oaked versions, could be more so, because they are rather special. A lot of extra work is done to remove the excess canopy and folliage, so as to achieve the sun blush on the white grapes that gives some tropical notes, pear, pineapple, orange zest combined with those notable terroir and mineral flavours. There are five communes / village wines.
You may have to "shell out some" to get the ones that I think that you want.

Some research is needed before spending.

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Ba will look them up for us

Come on, Ba....sort yourself.

Ta very much, MrD. I will now go find a good one. See how it compares to Saint Veran/Macon etc

The statistics on regular wine drinkers are that one in every four of them is suffering from some form of mental illness.
Think of your three best wine-drinking friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

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That's a bit harsh. Knocking the unbalanced wines is less subjective than looking inside the box

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Think of your three best wine-drinking friends

Err.....I live in South Wales. My 3 closest wine drinking friends would be you, MrD, and GK.

And GK is rude to me.

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That's a big Pit Mr B ! Open cast ?

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Sorry, didn't quite realise the enormity of it.

Have doctored it and put it through a third-party site.

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The '08 pair that I had in a luxury case just a little while ago were not at all to my liking. Indeed, one of them was poured down to the fish.
This '09 is a little cracker. Is it me changing or the vino? Once above frij temp it became dangerously downable.
My new steely resolve has left just over half a bottle for tomorrow...maybe...or not...

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The 2009 is wonderful. 2010 is a bigger disaster than the 08.

I have none of the 09 left....

Send me yours