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Chenin Blanc Party by Vova Ulianov

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Boris Buliga

A small and humble party dedicated to Chenin Blanc. Forget Aragorn, Vova is our new king.


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Photo by Daria Bykova, order of wines is reversed
WinePlace
wavg
sdev
fav
price
volume
QPR
🏅 6th3.97140.04620
UAH 1,499.00
0.75 L
0.7975 😐
🏅 9th3.80480.32000
UAH 3,700.00
0.75 L
0.3636 🤢
🥈 2nd4.26190.08443
UAH 1,728.00
0.75 L
1.3523 😊
🥇 1st4.40160.02475
UAH 7,500.00
0.75 L
0.8726 🤔
🏅 10th2.98100.05360
UAH 1,490.00
0.75 L
0.1243 🤢
🥉 3rd4.18730.02172
UAH 7,500.00
0.75 L
0.5553 😐
🏅 7th3.95930.04730
UAH 1,590.00
0.75 L
0.7556 😐
🏅 4th4.04290.00670
UAH 3,300.00
0.75 L
0.6215 😐
🏅 8th3.89490.04360
UAH 810.00
0.75 L
0.9300 🤔
🏅 5th3.98570.08893
UAH 1,690.00
0.75 L
0.7731 😐

Domaine Patrick Baudouin Savennières Bellevue 2018

Region
France » Loire » Savennières AOC
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2018
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
14
Volume
750 mL
Domaine Patrick Baudouin Savennières Bellevue 2018

This wine secured the 🏅 6th place in our wine tasting lineup.

A charming bouquet of quince, fennel, bruised apple, bakery, chalk and citrus. Good acidity, structure and balance. Delicious and easygoing despite 14% abv. All my guesses were wrong - vintage, appellation, and producer.

Coulée de Serrant Clos de la Coulée de Serrant 2017

Region
France » Loire » Savennières-Coulée-de-Serrant AOC
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2017
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
15
Volume
750 mL
Coulée de Serrant Clos de la Coulée de Serrant 2017

This wine secured the 🏅 9th place in our wine tasting lineup.

A bit tired and mature bouquet of crushed apple seeds (boy, how many apples had to suffer to produce this wine?), an old sweaty sweater and rubber. The flavours are more pleasant - jerez and mushrooms. Yet overall, the mouthfeel is flabby. The aftertaste is long and super hot. That's why my guess was Nicolas Joly (bingo!). A shameful experience. All the merits are overshadowed by issues.

Domaine de la Taille Aux Loups Bretonniere Cuvée Parcellaire Monopole 2021

Region
France » Vin de France
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2021
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
12.5
Sugar
1.5
Volume
750 mL
Domaine de la Taille Aux Loups Bretonniere Cuvée Parcellaire Monopole 2021

This wine secured the 🥈 2nd place in our wine tasting lineup.

Simply gorgeous. Such a multilayered and nuanced bouquet of apple vinegar, a wet shirt (that was wet for a long time, hehe), honey, chalk, gunpowder and apple. Then it reveals some creamy notes like dried cheddar. High acidity, but so well balanced and integrated (?). Delicious and evolving. The aftertaste is long and persistent. Dangerously quaffable, it's so hard to stop. Guessed Jacky Blot. IMO the best value of the evening.

Stephane Bernaudeau Les Coqueries 2019

Region
France » Vin de France
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2019
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
13
Sugar
2
Volume
750 mL
Stephane Bernaudeau Les Coqueries 2019

This wine secured the 🥇 1st place in our wine tasting lineup.

What a beautiful continuation. A bit of apple vinegar (again, in a good way), pastilla, white flowers, and cheese-flavoured popcorn. And while it's shy in the bouquet, the mouthfeel is gorgeous. A perfectly balanced and delicious wine with a never-ending aftertaste. Quaffable, multilayered, mineral and complex. Guessed producer.

Domaine Le Briseau Kharakter 2018

Region
France » Vin de France
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2018
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
13
Sugar
2
Volume
750 mL
Domaine Le Briseau Kharakter 2018

This wine secured the 🏅 10th place in our wine tasting lineup.

Ooof, a wine with a sociopathic character. It's full of disturbances. Lots of wood, Mivina spices and bread. Add some bog, smelly fish (Unhygienix would be proud), curry and a blossoming lake. I am too tender to deal with this character (literally, these are my blind notes).

Imagine my surprise when I learned the name of this wine and that it was made by the same person behind Patapon. The facial expression on the Patapon label tells it all. It's not a mistake. It's not a fault. It's KHARAKTER.

Stephane Bernaudeau Les Onglés 2019

Region
France » Vin de France
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2019
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
13.5
Sugar
2
Volume
750 mL
Stephane Bernaudeau Les Onglés 2019

This wine secured the 🥉 3rd place in our wine tasting lineup.

The bogging atrocity still haunted me and my senses. Luckily, this bottle guided me to the blessed light. Shells, wet stones, boxwood, apples, fruit trees blossoms, Jerez and meringue on a lemon tart. Fresh, crunchy and well-structured. Such a delicious remedy. I guessed the producer, yet I fear it underperformed due to the previous bottle.

Domaine Huet Clos du Bourg Demi-Sec 2017

Region
France » Loire » Vouvray AOC
Type
white still, semi dry
Producer
Domaine Huet
Vintage
2017
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
13.5
Volume
750 mL
Domaine Huet Clos du Bourg Demi-Sec 2017

This wine secured the 🏅 7th place in our wine tasting lineup.

Lovely. Since we knew the list of wines it was easy to guess this wine. As Treebeard said, I feel it in the water, […], and I smell it in the air. Roasted nuts, honey, seawater, earth and jam. Good acidity and structure. I wanted to give it a higher score, but the aftertaste is not long enough.

Jean-Pierre Robinot l'Ange Vin L'iris 2019

Region
France » Vin de France
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2019
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
13
Volume
750 mL
Jean-Pierre Robinot l'ange vin L'iris 2019

This wine secured the 🏅 4th place in our wine tasting lineup.

Green was the colour of its dress. No seriously, green apricot, flowers and seawater. It's attractive, but nothing overly fascinating. This wine feels like waking up after a very long dream and going outside to be greeted by ideal weather. You appreciate that, but your mind is clouded.

At least, l'Ange Vin L'iris is delicious and fresh. It has a long aftertaste with a nice metallic touch.

Domaine Breton La Dilettante 2018

Region
France » Loire » Vouvray AOC
Type
white still, dry
Vintage
2018
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
13.5
Sugar
1
Volume
750 mL
Domaine Breton La Dilettante 2018

This wine secured the 🏅 8th place in our wine tasting lineup.

It's hard to guess Chenin Blanc here. Fino Jerez, mushroom soup, nuts, wet cellar with a few ripe apricots. Good acidity and a round palate. Yet the aftertaste is rather short with some disturbing bitterness. Nice, wanted to taste this wine for a long time.

Rene Mosse Savennières Arena 2019

Region
France » Loire » Savennières AOC
Type
white still, dry
Producer
Rene Mosse
Vintage
2019
Grapes
Chenin Blanc
Alcohol
13.5
Sugar
2
Volume
750 mL
Rene Mosse Savennières Arena 2019

This wine secured the 🏅 5th place in our wine tasting lineup.

I looked at you
You looked me
I smiled at you
You smiled at me

Yet we parted ways. A bit crazy, a bit hazy, a bit empty. A tower made of wet pebbles, decored with bread crumbs soaked in yeast-infused water. All that to guard a fading jasmine flower. Fresh, yes. But nothing special.

Raw scores

WineYevgeniya TAnna PDiana MIvan OAnya IDaria BDavid HRoman RMykola TBoris BSerhii HMykola ChVova U
4.003.504.204.004.004.304.003.804.00
4.002.204.003.804.204.003.803.904.00
4.403.504.304.404.104.204.404.004.50
4.304.004.304.404.404.404.504.304.60
3.103.503.002.803.00
4.004.504.104.204.204.004.204.104.30
3.504.204.004.004.103.903.804.20
4.104.004.104.004.104.103.904.204.10
3.504.103.903.904.203.804.103.80
4.503.504.304.003.804.203.704.104.20