But, I digress. Earlier this week, before I started stuffing myself with turkey, we drank the 2008 Clos Floridene, which is from Graves. My handy pronunciation website doesn’t have just “Graves” but “". I think that’s a place (which isn’t in the wine appellation of Graves either), but it’ll give you the right idea.
I had it stuck in my head that this was going to be a sauvignon blanc based wine, even though I know that there are others allowed, probably because the other white Bordeaux was primarily sauvignon blanc. It wasn’t until I’d finished my tasting notes that I realized the obvious. At any rate, I thought it tasted a tad sweet, though with an acidic backbone. It wasn’t sugar sweet (it's a dry wine), but tasted of apricots and peaches, which are such sweet fruits. I was surprised that I tasted no citrus. I shouldn’t have been. I wrote down that it was such a full wine, almost like a French pinot gris.
And that was when I realized... it was semillon.
The Score: ★ ★ ★
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