Domaine de Trevallon, Blanc, Alpilles IGP

Decanted 30 min. Still tightly wound. Tropical notes, ginger, a whiff of waxiness. Touch of bitterness on the finish for freshness and some salinity. Well balanced but worth waiting a few more years. Served with honey and mustard pot roast ibérico.

2015 vintage

Robe jaune soutenu Nez melon pêche blanche note plus iodées à l’aération Bouche ample grasse mais avec un superbe équilibre gras acidité bel longueur sur les amers Beau vin

2015 vintage

O man, this is in the right spot now. I think it opened up after a long close down. Not too much alcohol, peache and other fruit on the fore, no sweetness, but not too dry, fullbodied. I am not I good wine describer, but I have seldom (or never) tasted such a complex, dry, full white wine! I do not rate wines any more, because I am too much of an amateur, but this one I do!

2010 vintage

We usually debate these old whites but there was no hesitation here. It was a must buy and delivered in bucket loads. Not the usual white of course and maybe the lovers of rounder and richer whites would not like it but definitely has a purity and sense of tipicity we so often miss in the whites of today ( Barrign the noble wines of Santorini) . Waxy, full of texture, evolved but still bright from nose to tail and …

2010 vintage

CWG Tasting - Domaine Trevallon (Boekenhoutskloof) : Medium straw in colour, the nose has a compelling but pronounced reduction of struck match, cordite, and starter pistol flint. Beneath lies a subtle layer of ripe golden apple, salted nuts, candied peach, starfruit and poached pear. The palate echoes the nose with a broad mid-palate and lively acidity leaning more on riper orchard fruit, yet feels less complex than the previous two wines. A gentle heat comes through on the finish and …

2015 vintage

Agree with my score from a year ago on this bottle. Toast / brioche is the most prominent flavor this time around. Agree with honeydew melon note from a year ago. Delicious.

2015 vintage

Pale, green-tinged straw. Floral and fruity alongside a pinch of wet wool. Similar on the palate, some textural weight and good minerality and straw note. Decent. ***

2014 vintage

White Rhone & Other Blends (Luddite Cellars) : Deep gold with yellow edges Classic cordite and struck match on the nose with some quarry dust. The entry is medium-bodied with incredible drive and persistence, all kept on track with fresh sea ozone and saline notes. Focused and direct, the wine has depth and length with dried fruits and a touch of peach. No fat here, complex.

2015 vintage

Outstanding, though bettered by the 2018 enjoyed last week. I prefer this style to many other CdP whites as it has less bright sweet melon fruit. Complex with a beautiful mouthfeel.

2015 vintage

A late sub for a tragically corked bottle of Raveneau 99 Montmains. Served a bit too warm at first, this started blocky and even a little fat. As the wine chilled and unclenched with more air it opened up to reveal stone fruit and stone notes with faint aromas of garrigue and green tea. the palate became less honeyed and waxy and gained suavity. There's an intriguing inner mouth perfume here and this shone with a shellfish nage with shrimp …

2011 vintage

Lovely. It started quite slow and a bit waxy but grew in the class and lightened in weight over more than 1 hr open. A great food wine.

2011 vintage

Perhaps great things will happen to the 2015 Trévallon Blanc with time, but I tried to like it and failed. Though I followed an open bottle over the course of a week, it remained fat and alcoholic in profile, but without any particularly interesting characteristics to compensate. It could just be in a dumb phase, but I'd stick to Trévallon's red incarnation in 2015 myself.

2015 vintage

Pale to mid straw, some green flecks. Quite open and expressive on the nose, a touch of honey and apple alongside a pinch of wet wool, with a nicely citrus freshness. Similar on the palate. Some textural weight and good minerality and straw notes, but ultimately it doesn’t really excite. A perfectly good wine. I’ve always far preferred red Trev, and this doesn’t change my view. ***

2014 vintage

Pretty serious wine here. Mostly Marsanne/Roussanne and a few other local varieties, plus a dollop of Chardonnay apparently. Very much up my street this thing. Big, heady, voluptuous nose of peaches, baked apples and caramelised fruits, balanced against spicier notes of cinnamon, even cloves. Powerful, fragrant, shamelessly assertive and full-bodied. I think the slightly bitter, almondy, saline finish is not for some, but I like this sort of thing a lot. I can see long life in this wine, and …

2015 vintage

Carafé et tempéré, il s'améliore à mesure qu'il monte en temperature. Nez de fruits à chair blanche bouche toute en rondeur sans acidité.

2015 vintage

(CDV) Premiere fois avec Travallon blanc, un vin assez impressionnant, bien que classique de prime abord (le nez toast boisé d'Hermitage) et fort séduisant. en s'étant il trouve le juste équilibre entre richesse et tension, opulence et salinité (aucune lourdeur). Et quelle longueur en bouche! Praliné, patissier, il a aussi de relans de Meursault, et même s'il évoque d'autres appellations, il a en même temps une indéniable identité (le soleil, la salinité). Très beau!

2011 vintage

Beautifully balanced - light citrus , bit appelyb and nice mouthfeel - light to medium body and nice length.brilliant nose - drinks well now but capable for 5 more yrs I guess.

2014 vintage

Pair with Michelin Chinese cuisine at Chef Kang. Blended well with the food. Had tried Trevallon red previously.

2015 vintage

Je l'ai trouvé décevant. 9 ans c'etait peut être trop pour cette bouteille. Pas de nez, pas de fruit en bouche, aucune longueur. Je m'attends à beaucoup mieux des 2015 et 2017 que je boirai plus en jeunesse.

2010 vintage

Yellow-green color. Musty quince and gooseberry on the nose. Slightly sweet with durian notes, bizarrely, banana leaf, and an assortment of other tropical fruits. Unusual and delicious.

2011 vintage

I enjoyed this last night, though I think I would have enjoyed it even more maybe 2 years ago. There were lovely peach, wax, and wool flavors, and a light ginger note, and the mid-palate and finish were both quite long. It would have been very good with a creamy chicken dish, or perhaps a lobster risotto. The wine was in good shape right out of the bottle, it had a rich golden color and slight oxidation which called to …

2010 vintage

Le nez est très floral, devenant plus mielleux en réchauffant. Lorsque bu plus frais, on est sur les arômes de poires et de coing, de pommes, mais le fruit est masqué par l’acidité apparente (le vin est froid donc paraît plus acide). Une finale sur les épices douces (muscade). Avec l’aération dans le verre et en se réchauffant, le nez dévoile des arômes de pommes cuites et beaucoup de miel avec une pointe oxydative. En bouche, le vin a complètement …

2011 vintage

Bright and fresh still but with quite a bit of of weight. Light oak here, feels like old oak use. Soft ripe citrus notes, good acidity, nice balance and with good length. Very solid wine and an easy 91-92

2014 vintage

Great wine, very dry and full bodied. In fact voluptuous, but the bone-dry character makes it elegant. You have to be in for this..... I am.

2010 vintage

More interesting than genuinely pleasurable for me. There's plenty of ripe citrus and white fruit at the core here, but it has a lot of the waxy and lanolin flavours I have a hard time getting past in many Southern Rhone whites. There's surprisingly bright acidity here, but still it's a wine that's hard for me to keep coming back to.

2010 vintage

Same bottle as Salil. I liked this a bit better than he did. There are the waxy, darker notes present, but the higher acid than is typically encountered with some of these flavors gives it a nice lift. Perhaps the 10% Chardonnay included brightens it, too. Not sure I'd re-buy given then current price, but nice to try.

2010 vintage

Rondeur et amertume, fruits à noyau, bonne longueur. Très bon.

2010 vintage

Elegance, finesse, balance, finale. wow

2011 vintage

Gold-blonde color. Pure honeydew melon on the nose, emphasis on the honey. Notes of honeyed bananas on a strong mineral background. With air, tropical fruit notes emerge. The mineral and honey dominates the very long finish along with a late-emerging lemon note.

2011 vintage

Peach, lemon rind and lemon grass. Stony on the medium finish. Drink now - 2015.

2010 vintage

Really nice, but still tight. opened up with a nice nose of flowers, tropical fruit. on the palatebinitially light, but developed nicely with floral notes, peach, passion, some lime.

2010 vintage

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