Community Tasting Note

ikkaariainen wrote:

Thursday, September 18, 2008 - What an absolutely great chardonnay and certainly could stand cellaring even longer - very sorry to see our last bottle gone. Enjoyed with Kim earlier tonight with dinner of spinach salad, butter-fried mushroom medley and pan-fried grouper. Somewhat subtle yet fruit-forward nose, nicely dry, primarily yellow apples, green melon and some vanilla. Very complex for a chard, smooth and well integrated without any off-tones at all, good structure and firm with very pleasant mouth feel and great lingering aftertaste on the palate. Surprisingly dry and minerally, primary flavors included a hint of floral tones, vanilla and certainly green fuit in an exceptionally well-balanced package. One of the better whites we have had in a long time, quality wise on par with the Sbragia Gamble Ranch chard of the same vintage which to me is the bench-mark of California chards although certainly much less buttery and drier.

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