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| Drinking window: Drink between 2010 and 2015 (based on 18 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ShaunB on 7/17/2020 & rated 95 points: Pear and apple. Oak now well integrated. Great wine! (339 views) | | | Tasted by glapuyade on 6/11/2015 & rated 93 points: Amazingly Montrachet like! Intense honey gold color. Despite nearing the decade mark the freshness, acidity and minerals were all still kickin! (1502 views) | | | Tasted by quickben on 5/5/2012 & rated 91 points: Mmmm this is iChat and voluptuous but enough acidity to avoid many hint of cloying. Old world style that is a great testimony to non- interventionist wine making (2567 views) | | | Tasted by Oh Dae-su on 2/23/2012 & rated 92 points: The colour in my glass was rather dark, golden yellow without a lot of particles. Well, it needed the nose, just the nose, to conquer my heart. It proved be enormously complex and refined. I smelled a variety of lemon flavours, sweet’ish orange honey, tropical fruits like pine apple and hints of papaya, breakfast cereal, whipped cream and amazingly gentle scents of oak influence. A touch of classical Chardonnay spices aren’t lacking either. A nose full of character and impact! Bam!
At first the taste of the Méthode Ancienne Chardonnay impressed with plenty of tropical flavours, quite a lot of buttery aromas, hints of whipped egg whites, elegance, certain freshness and fantastic length. It was broad as well as sophisticatedly delicate. Some hours later the refined and very very very well balanced character of this Chardonnay got more and more impressive. The creamy and buttery attributes (in combination with a very gentle freshness) improved to almost unknown heights. The overall balance, including the slightly increased alcohol (14%, was never in the foreground anyway), took my breath away. Maybe by surprise, maybe by its overwhelming quality!?! I can’t and won’t tell. I just can say: It is a very damn good Chardonnay. Maybe like a very thoughtfully produced high class Meursault. Erase my last statement, please. I should not make such foolish comparisons. On the second day the quality and overwhelming impact hardly changed. Definitely unlike any South African Chardonnay I ever had. Fantastic! (2710 views) | | | Tasted by quickben on 8/4/2011 & rated 90 points: One of my favourites. This gets lovely acidity as well as plenty of fruit and buttery flavours suggesting it should be so much farther north than Robertson - really good. (2750 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 5/28/2009 & rated 90 points: Monthly Tasting Group LTB 2009-06; South-Africa (By HV): A lot of ripe pineapple in the bouquet. Full bodied, almost a bit fat, soft and enormously tasteful. Pineapple again, but also honey and caramel. This, accompanied by a firm dose of citrus acidity and a long finish makes it an excellent wine. (3055 views) |
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