Community Tasting Note

• Sky King wrote: 94 points

  May 30, 2010 - From the St. Innocent wine club, and a welcome addition to the Spring 2010 shipment I will say. I have heard Mark Vlossak remark about reducing the amount of white wine he intends to make, and to increase the quality of the white wines he is making. Furthermore, Mark has said that he is going to make Chardonnay exclusively from Dijon Clones as these clones, in his opinion, make superior wine in Oregon. Right On Mark! This wine completely and successfully embodies the philosophy that you are advancing. The color here is a nice golden hue, not aged golden but gorgeous golden. Aromatically, the wine does take a while to open up and develop but what comes out is truly enthralling. Not at all oaky or buttery, but minerally and intense and stony and lovely. Interestingly, there is "great cut" here, a preview of what will soon be enjoyed on the palate as well. In the mouth, intense without being heavy, minerally in a great Chablis way but with even more oily-ness like a Chassagne. Smoky too. The mid-palate is penetrating without being overbearing. Everything here is just right...just right. I have marked this up because it is, IMO, one of the most outstanding Oregon Chardonnays to cross these lips. Bravo!

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