Château Rives-Blanques Odyssée Chardonnay 2021 0,75l

Jancis Robinson: Not a wine to drink fridge cold. A stencil drift of smoke across the tilleul fragrance on the nose. White currant, russet apple, early autumn sweetness. There's a subtle, crystalline purity that is somehow rounded and held in a breath-taking pause, like the trembling dewdrops on a cobweb as they catch the milky light of early autumn. Based on the several vintages of Rives-Blanques Odysée in my cellar, this is embryonic. It has the confidence and clear-cut clarity of youth, but hiding a matrix of complexity that will segue into honeyed, mineral-tense, multi-dimensional, nuances as it ages. Delicious now, but personally I'd hold this back for another year or two.