2003 Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay Art Series
Community Tasting Note
wernicke Likes this wine:
95 Points
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - Piping up here to add my own commentary to that of the previous posters, with whose considered opinions i could not disagree more. Yes this is a zero acid wine. But the combination of the oak and the thick skin tannin, extracted well by the winemakers, gives this a sense of textural pluripotence akin to a Krug. If you are only looking for acid 1) that makes you an unsophisticate 2) you will surely find none here. What this does have is a brilliant searing sense of heft and cut (almost alkaline) from a 20 year old hot climate chardonnay coming into the prime of its drinking window
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Comment posted by jlgnml:
5/12/2024 5:39:00 AM - Spot on. I am not an acid taster as many of my friends are. Leeuwin wines have been in my cellar for decades and are extraordinary.
Comment posted by wernicke:
5/12/2024 6:40:00 AM - Anybody who tastes warm vintage burgundy (10,15,18) will know that great wine can work without low Ph. There are so many other elements to give it drive !