Francois Villard, Viognier Contours Deponcins, VdF

Francois Villard · Default Region (FR) › France

White · Viognier

Critics

91 /100

Reviews

professional

Region

Default Region (FR)

Default region created during LWIN import

Vintages

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Community Reviews

Reviews

90.6

Avg Score

Highest

Trending downhill but still quite nice for my last bottle. Brown apple, good minerality. A good bit of oxidative notes on the nose. Just always a QPR star. Drink soon if you have it.

2007 vintage

Drank over 2 evenings. Still drinking really well - no sign this past its best. Even nicer on the 2nd day.

2006 vintage

Time to drink up. Nose was all brown apple, pear, and oxidative sherry notes. Much more mature than my last notes with sherry notes, tart apple, pear, etc. Still quite nice if you like oxidative whites, but drink up by 2017.

2007 vintage

This wine just keeps getting better, its getting more complex toffee, caramel notes along with the the fruit notes. Otherwise similar to previously notes. This wine will def hold up for several more years.

2007 vintage

Nice yellow color. Nice nose.

2007 vintage

Very close to previous note, slightly less fruit, but more secondary complexity. This may be a 10yr wine. Still doing great. Bottle 7 of 12.

2007 vintage

Same as last note. Still drinking really well.

2007 vintage

Light smoke and peaches on nose, lavender, caramel, licorice on finish

2007 vintage

Still drinking well. 5 bottle over the last 4 months. Honey, peach, lavender on nose. Good full mouthfeel, some minerality, but mostly fruit, honey and a bit of burnt tire. Noticible changing but still holding on well and one of my favorite whites ever.

2007 vintage

beyond peak. losing floral nose, gold color and less intense honey and violets.

2007 vintage

honey, peach and lavender. Have drunk over past 2yrs . Like most Viognier not for the long hall and should drink in next few months. Not as appealing as last year.

2007 vintage

drink the rest now, not getting better

2007 vintage

Yellow straw color. Medium-bodied with lovely apricot and peach flavors. Some nice minerality on the finish. Probably won't last a lot longer but drinking very nicely now.

2007 vintage

"Value" Rhones (The Wine Club, San Francisco) : Light. Spicy nose, not nearly as floral as most Viognier. Light texture, good acidity, candied citrus fruit. Very pleasant.

2007 vintage

Beeswax, honey, crisp citrus. Thoroughly enjoyable and great QPR.

2007 vintage

very fresh nose palate - taut acidity, minerally, prickly, lively with a little creaminess. good stuff tick

2007 vintage

Drank this in Sonoma on a wine trip. Delicious.

2007 vintage

This is almost a Condrieu for a very low price. Clean, crisp.

2007 vintage

Beautiful afternoon wine

2007 vintage

Well made wine with nice aromatics, but not very complex.

2007 vintage

Oregon trip -- a little heavier handed and more cloying than I would have liked, but some of the good ripe peach is there. Just looking for more floral minerality.

2007 vintage

Best three words to describe this are subtle, elegant, and feminine - in that order. Straw yellow color of medium intensity, clear. Initial nose at 63 degrees was rather disappointing because of the subtlety, but showed chalky minerals, meadow flowers, a touch of honey, plus notes of peach and lemon. Described as full bodied but to me it was more toward medium. Very smooth mouthfeel aided by glycerin, with a lovely melange of flowers, light pineapple, peach, and citrus flavors. …

2006 vintage