2011 Domaine Drouhin Oregon Chardonnay Arthur

Community Tasting Note

Bandreas wrote:

82 Points

Friday, June 5, 2015 - very much old golden color already, bordering on amber.
Smell of green apples, "Firne" and certainly Premox.
Wine is definitively on the way down. A storage problem of this particular bottle or is it the wine in general?
would be interested to hear from other consumers.
If the latter stay away from this wine. It is not downright bad but holds academic interest at best.

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Comment posted by pepmi:

7/24/2015 9:24:00 AM - I visited the winery several years ago out of sentimental value ( I consistently drank the Laurene Pinot in the 90's). What I found was little credibility that the Willamette winery follows a "Burgundian" model. The wines didn't taste anything like you would find in a Burgundy. This is a long winded way of saying that I bought 4 bottles of the Arthur and then regretted it. I had to force myself to drink them. The wines were certainly not aging well.
Comment posted by Bandreas:

7/24/2015 1:36:00 PM - Thank you PEPMI for confirming my suspicion. I will certainly stay away from this wine in future.
Comment posted by Matteo1:

11/22/2015 3:10:00 PM - Nice catch. This one is done for.
Comment posted by aChave:

9/23/2016 9:11:00 PM - My experience was quite different. Bought at my local NW wineshop and cellared... I found it quite fresh and high-spirited. Good overall, and seems to be aging well... not adding weight or depth, but slighly softening without losing freshness. Perhaps others have had mistreated bottles...?
Comment posted by Bandreas:

9/24/2016 10:21:00 AM - Hi aChave, I am glad you had a different experience...
this encourages me to give it another try if I should come across this bottle in the near future.