Community Tasting Note

blaine wrote:

Sunday, February 26, 2023 - Past its prime, my bad. This was so expensive that I broke my own chardonnay rules awaiting the right occasion. Beautiful pale gold color, no sign of age. Effusive nose on opening, toasted brioche, big elegant oak. Palate is tart and a little bitter on the opening, and a little flabby on the mid-palate. Finish leaned toward bitter. Rounded out and integrated after a few minutes in the glass, bitterness faded. But it's clear the best days have passed on this one, a bit oxidized. Palate flatted out, bitterness never went away. My sense is that earlier in life this had more fruit to balance the oak, but that's much gone. Gently stored in my cellar since release. Drink up.

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