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 Vintage2018 Label 1 of 18 
TypeWhite
ProducerDomaine du Castel (web)
VarietyChardonnay
Designation'C' Blanc du Castel
Vineyardn/a
CountryIsrael
RegionJudean Hills
SubRegionn/a
Appellationn/a
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UPC Code(s)7290017000183, 7290017000312

Drinking Windows and Values
Drinking window: Drink between 2021 and 2025 (based on 48 user opinions)

Community Tasting History

Community Tasting Notes (average 90.5 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text

 Tasted by AaronJCohen on 2/17/2024 & rated 94 points: Took to La Maison with the Caldwells. The wine was amazing. It was light, acidic and contained wonderful notes of meyer lemon, pineapple (134 views)
 Tasted by MosheDehsoM on 3/25/2022 & rated 89 points: Intense. Beautiful bright transparent gold yellow. Full body. A mixture of flavors and tastes: oak, vanilla, earthy, leather. The fruits are much less dominant, mainly citrus, lime, apricot and apple. A very complex wine, maybe a little too complex for me. (527 views)
 Tasted by Ishay on 3/25/2022 & rated 93 points: Wonderful as always Bourgogne style Chardonnay. (566 views)
 Tasted by Tudz Drkl on 7/5/2021: Yellow gold, clear and clean. Nose is mint, smoke and reluctant fruit. Palate is bready and forward profile of rich fruit. Finish retains smokiness for quite some time. Would prefer a little restraint on oak (1292 views)
 Tasted by Adam Pritzker on 2/5/2021 & rated 93 points: WOW!!! A huge step up from the last tasting. Explosive smoky oak dry melon bouquet. Medium bodied with concentrated fruit flavors. Rich buttery oaky smoky dry peach, melon, pear flavors. Long oaky smoky finish. Good balance. Very Burgundian in style. Delicious. This bottle is more reminiscent of the previous vintages of this that I loved. Drinks well now. Drink now to 2031, possibly longer (1569 views)
 Tasted by Adam Pritzker on 11/6/2020 & rated 91 points: 91-92+. Nice deep golden color. Very rich voluptuous buttery honey bouquet. On the palette it is very rich broad and fat with nice concentrated flavors. Compared to previous vintages, this is a lot less mineral and more broad and fat and lush. Nice flavors of butter, pear, with some minerals and hence of citrus along with some good acidity. This is much more expressive than when I last tasted it which was not long ago. I suspect that this will continue to develop in the bottle of the next few years. At this point I'm not sure how long it will last. Other vintages have gone well past 10 years but this seems stylistically different so it's hard to say. Still well worth getting it and a very nice Chardonnay. Definitely worth the money. (1295 views)
 Tasted by Adam Pritzker on 9/21/2020 & rated 90 points: Pale gold to straw color. Buttery citrus pear Apple tart mineral bouquet. Medium bodied with very good concentration. Very tart and acidic with nice flavors of butter, pear, minerals. Long tart acidic finish. while this wine is quite good now it really needs time to fully open up shed some of it it's acids and it might even possibly fatten up. It certainly will become more expressive. Well balanced. 13% abv. Enjoyable now. Likely best from 2022 to 2028, possibly longer (1017 views)
 Tasted by bobkl on 7/6/2020 & rated 89 points: Ripe yellow fruit, strong vanilla and much more subtle buttery notes. Refreshing acidity, long somewhat bitter aftertaste. Very high quality wine, not the best VFM though. (748 views)
 Tasted by MANMD on 4/6/2020 & rated 85 points: Good. Maybe need more storage... (850 views)
 Tasted by Yagil on 7/25/2019 & rated 89 points: med gold
pronounced aromas intensity of pineapple, pear, peach kiwi, oak-anilla, butter;
developing
dry, med+m acidity, med abv, med+ body, med flavours intensity consistent with the aromas; long finish
can drink now - suitable for further aging (1306 views)

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By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (6/15/2021)
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