2012 Les Clos Face Off: Dauvissat vs Patrick Piuze
2012 Les Clos Face Off: Dauvissat vs Patrick Piuze
by interstellar_billy
7 Comments
interstellar_billy
I had hoped this would be a closer matchup as I have had many enjoyable experiences with Patrick Piuze, but Dauvissat blew the competition out of the water… It wasn’t even close. I would even argue the Dauvissat provides better QPR given the gap in quality between the two wines…
Piuze: Some crushed oyster on the nose, but fades to honey with a hint of bruised apple coming through. This wine had good complexity, but presented a bit tired. Although it was enjoyable today it is beginning to oxidize. My previous bottle was completely oxidized, so it was a relief to open this immediately after and have a sound enjoyable wine. This was tasted blind by several experienced palates side by side with a Dauvissat, and the Patrick Piuze presented as a significantly older wine and did not have nearly as much tension, complexity, or typicity as the Dauvissat.
Dauvissat: Pale golden straw with a green tint… Tidal pool, iodine, marzipan, sour cream honey and citrus on the nose.The palate is quintessentially Dauvissat – a rippling limestone bench boiling to the surface of an ice cold glacier fed river bursting with dry extract (this is my go-to descriptier for Dauvissat at this point). Broad, rich and precise with deeply concentrated white and yellow fruit. The fruit in this is truly impressive, but backed up by the quintessence of Chablis. Wow these wines are immortal. This wine is decades away from decline and despite all of its complexity, presents as a significantly younger wine. A true Grand Cru and one of the greatest white wines in the world. This is the most impressive bottle of Dauvissat that I have had the privledge of trying. 2012 is very much an overlooked burgundy vintage, especially in Chablis.
ultravioletneon
What a fun face-off!
goutFIRE
Woah. Your storage unit is pristine!
Must have some treasuries locked up there
Roger_-Thornhill
I imagine that’s a secure facility, but if those are individual lockers, they don’t look that secure.
CountofAnjou
I had the 2012 La Forest by Dauvissat recently and it was all time top Chablis experience. Their wines are sublime top end Chablis. Only Raveneau hits the same level for me.
boshongo
Piuze wines are great if not amazing but Dauvissat are outstanding
Big_Two6049
Please remember Piuze’s fruit is negoce. Not supposed to be anywhere near the level of quality/ complexity of Dauvissat. Great notes
7 Comments
I had hoped this would be a closer matchup as I have had many enjoyable experiences with Patrick Piuze, but Dauvissat blew the competition out of the water… It wasn’t even close. I would even argue the Dauvissat provides better QPR given the gap in quality between the two wines…
Piuze: Some crushed oyster on the nose, but fades to honey with a hint of bruised apple coming through. This wine had good complexity, but presented a bit tired. Although it was enjoyable today it is beginning to oxidize. My previous bottle was completely oxidized, so it was a relief to open this immediately after and have a sound enjoyable wine. This was tasted blind by several experienced palates side by side with a Dauvissat, and the Patrick Piuze presented as a significantly older wine and did not have nearly as much tension, complexity, or typicity as the Dauvissat.
Dauvissat: Pale golden straw with a green tint… Tidal pool, iodine, marzipan, sour cream honey and citrus on the nose.The palate is quintessentially Dauvissat – a rippling limestone bench boiling to the surface of an ice cold glacier fed river bursting with dry extract (this is my go-to descriptier for Dauvissat at this point). Broad, rich and precise with deeply concentrated white and yellow fruit. The fruit in this is truly impressive, but backed up by the quintessence of Chablis. Wow these wines are immortal. This wine is decades away from decline and despite all of its complexity, presents as a significantly younger wine. A true Grand Cru and one of the greatest white wines in the world. This is the most impressive bottle of Dauvissat that I have had the privledge of trying. 2012 is very much an overlooked burgundy vintage, especially in Chablis.
What a fun face-off!
Woah. Your storage unit is pristine!
Must have some treasuries locked up there
I imagine that’s a secure facility, but if those are individual lockers, they don’t look that secure.
I had the 2012 La Forest by Dauvissat recently and it was all time top Chablis experience. Their wines are sublime top end Chablis. Only Raveneau hits the same level for me.
Piuze wines are great if not amazing but Dauvissat are outstanding
Please remember Piuze’s fruit is negoce. Not supposed to be anywhere near the level of quality/ complexity of Dauvissat. Great notes