Le Soula, La Maceration du Soula, VdF

New OL venue try-out (Salon Privé) : Hmm a hint of pox? No - more than a hint. Interesting discussion about how premox always smells like premox - regardless of the grape. Good point well made.

2012 vintage

BWC & Friends - Salon Privée Test Drive with Soula and Rioja (Salon Privé, St Margarets) : Sadly very sherry like on the nose. Difficult to make out much beyond.

2012 vintage

Saturday Night hit and miss; 9/2/2023-9/3/2023 : Pale gold colour. Intense nose on opening, a hint of spice, cut grass, lemongrass. The palate is great, it’s broad there’s a ton going on but real focus and precision, lovely acidity. The flavour profile is more Rhone than Rioja but it has this tautness that is just so attractive. Over the next couple of hours it starts to loosen up a little, maybe become a bit more diffuse. Can’t tell whether this …

2012 vintage

This is in a great place. It's still fresh but body and depth has replaced any early acidity. Peachy fruit and a pleasant warm stoniness. Savoury and drinkable, really good stuff.

2012 vintage

I really admire Le Soula and what Gerard Gauby, Roy Richards, Mark Walford and now Wendy Wilson have achieved there. Le Soula Blanc in particular is a triumph of consistency, value and the art of the white blend. The technical sheet on th website for the 2012 is 35 % Macabeu (30 year old vineyards), 30 % Sauvignon (20 year old vineyard), 17 % Grenache blanc (15 year old vineyard), 7 % Marsanne-Roussanne (8 year old vineyards), 6 % Vermentino …

2012 vintage

Monday Funday (Hawksmoor Air Street) : Third vintage of this i've tasted - this is closer to the Rioja meets S Rhone of the 2013 than the light florality of the 2016. The viura / macabeu is very evident and this has a sense of being close to a non oxidative rioja. It struggled to express itself when sat alongside the glorious Gravonia, and I feel this was a little unfair to the Soula, which is a lovely wine in …

2012 vintage

Clear light yellow. Elegant nose, white flowers, apple, melon and a hint of orange blossom. Very dry delicious baked apple and pear flavours. Great texture and a long dry finish.

2012 vintage

Beeswax, honey, vibrant citric fruit. This is currently delicious, vibrant and in the perfect place. Weighty but fresh, this is a real gastronomic all-rounder. Perfect now, I wouldn't keep this any longer.

2012 vintage

This is drinking beautifully. Showing development but supported by bright acidity and still vibrant fruits. Very enjoyable now with tons of weight, vibrancy and liveliness. Why wait?! Drinking so well now.

2012 vintage

Clear light yellow. Medium light intense nose, stone fruit, white flowers, pear and kiwi fruit. Very elegant. Tasty citrus and stone fruit flavours and a delicious long dry finish.

2012 vintage

floral lemony Very young and vibrant, lovely texture, herbs, very long and nutty Showing really well. No hurry to drink, these wines last but delicious now

2012 vintage

Vieillissant joliment, le Côtes Catalanes Le Soula blanc 2012 offre de nombreuses notes de pêche et d'ananas, une richesse mi-corsée, une remarquable fraîcheur et pureté, et d'intenses notes de noisette et d'épices en finale. C'est un vin sublime, parfait pour la table qui montre le potentiel de garde des blancs de la région.

2012 vintage

Herbs on the nose TExtured palate with notes of almonds Very very long and really opens up in the glass

2012 vintage

Citrus pastille with some baked orchard fruits and hints of sherry. Nicely textured with a broad yet stony palate. Interesting wine that can stand up to some challenging flavours.

Brought this to Judy's SouthWestern Reds tasting. to have after. had completely incorrect recollection. Bigged it up! Wished I'd read my previous notes. Now just as oxidised as before but much faded so rather unpleasant!

2005 vintage

Straw, nose of bruised apple, white flowers, sake. Soft, saline.

2012 vintage

Lemons, earthy notes, waxy More citrus, some rind, Full-bodied, no oak, round texture, balancing acidity Hazelnuts, long finish Fresh, but full and complex. Ageing. Beautifully. Like something from rhone

2012 vintage

Jaune orangé. Nez très original, mouvant, sur la pomme oxydée, les fleurs blanches, la pêche blanche, un nez presque de liquoreux, proche de blancs géorgiens légèrement macérés. En bouche, le toucher tannique est délicat, l'empreinte est importante cependant, avec des notes d'abricot bien prononcées en milieu de bouche, acidité, pointe oxydative et traces de perlance en finale, plus intéressante après ouverture. A marier avec de l'anguille fumée, du saumon, hors des sentiers battus !

A very unusual wine, hard to describe (for me anyway). Pale Yellow color. Subtle honey and citrus (lime? grapefruit?) on the nose. Sauvignon dominates initially, with good acidity, but then wine evolves into something more complex and buttery. Considerable mouth-feel and length which ends with a hot, almost peppery, sensation. Stunning.

2012 vintage

L10 is a blend of the 2009 and 2010 vintages with 78% Vermentino from a 16 year old vineyard plus 22% of Macabeu from a 23 year old vineyard located at an average altitude of 500 m at the foothills of the Pyrenees. Deep golden colour with a reductive nose initially turning into a distinct nose where honeyed notes meet floral scents and notes from oak in a charming way. Mid-weight, rather unfamiliar aromatics, tasted baked yet very fresh, crisp …

Decant always. Has lees, but also really benefits from the opening of the wine, which is great and probably will carry on improving over next few years The wine looks yellow colored. The legs are medium. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells like lemon, melon and hay/straw. The body is medium/full. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity. The wine looks yellow colored. The legs are medium. There is moderate …

2005 vintage

This bottle did not seem to have as much body s the previous. Still a wonderful complex nose, with marzipan and liquorice. Not as much fun as the chenins we had around it though. Don´t hold on too much longer.

2005 vintage

RAW Fair (Truman Brewery, London) : Beautiful nose that's equal parts mineral and savoury. Very tightly wound but - like the Soula Blanc - very promising. 17/20. 2014+

Wonderful wine. Drank it over 3 days and it showed no signs of slowing down. Complex with notes of orange peel and hazelnuts and very satisfying. Can imagine this would be very good with food. Hold it and let it get better.

2005 vintage

A quite unique wine bristling with flavors, one of which is a little dangerous. A ciderised/oxidative note appears after air or with warmth. Terrific, but treat with care and serve with food. A: light straw, no sign of maturity N: Honeyed and grass but shows that unpleasant cider note when it warms. P: Off-dry entry, medium bodied, medium-high acid. Brisk finish with lingering sweetness

2005 vintage

Distinctive nose with some sherry/oxidised notes. (worried about condition briefly) Complex and layered flavours of honey and nuts. Medium acidity. Very good, but unusual

2005 vintage

needs carafing - takes time to open itself - then great body and multiple aromas - should be drank now

2005 vintage

Gold color, apricot on the nose. Full across the palate, gorgeous oak, perfectly ripe fruit and a lovely minerality. So much complexity and yet still balanced. Might get better but drinking so well now, not a lot of acidity in this vintage. Was best at low room temp.

2005 vintage

Savoury and mineral. Will be very fine.

2005 vintage

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