Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Monday, November 25, 2019 - 12,8% alcohol. Only 480 cases made.

Youthful, pale yellow-green color. Super-primary nose with candied aromas of pear drops, sweet apple juice, some herbal spice and a little bit of steely minerality. Smells more like Italian Pinot Grigio than Chardonnay. The wine is dry, crisp and fresh on the palate with medium body and very youthful flavors of pear drops, some acrid SO2, a little bit of apple juice, light lemony citrus fruits, a hint of banana marshmallows and a touch of steely minerality. The racy acidity makes the wine feel enjoyably focused and structure-driven. The finish is spicy, sharp and quite long with flavors of saline minerality, tart lemony citrus fruits, some tangy green apples, a little bit of primary pear drop character, light leesy notes of yeast and a hint of herbal spice.

An enjoyably crisp and fresh Chardonnay that is simply too primary at the moment to be enjoyable. My score might seem harsh, but the wine is just quite unpleasant to me at the moment, coming across as just a candied crowdpleaser with its overtly primary fruit flavors. There is definitely a fresh and balanced wine underneath, but you really can't taste it behind all those sweet primary fruit flavors that make me think cheap Italian Pinot Grigio. I'd love to re-taste this wine after 3-4 years, because it feels like this is going to be good but it just needs more time. No need to hurry with this one.

EDIT: Tasted the 2010 vintage of this on Oct/2021 - it was pretty lovely. This wine definitely needs more time.

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