We ordered a case of this en primeur from the Wine Society and when we opened the first few bottles, it seemed a little closed still; as if it needed a little more time. A few months seem to have made all the difference though and it’s opening up nicely.
Bright and pale gold, it has fairly high acidity which carries rich lemon, peach and mineral flavours with a touch of butter and vanilla and a whiff of toast on the nose. The finish is moderately long, with the acidity and fruit lasting, ending with a hint of the buttery toast.
A curious thing about this wine was the unusual closure. It is plastic, but not one solid piece. It seems to be a sort of capsule of expanded plastic, with a ring of harder black plastic inside and a transparent, harder piece of plastic around the end of the closure that’s in contact with the wine. Putting a corkscrew into it is a little strange; trying to aim it into the middle of the black circle. Apart from that though, it does seem to behave pretty much exactly the same as a more conventional cork.
