Community Tasting Note

cct wrote:

Friday, July 14, 2017 - For Bastille Day. Pop and poured, drunk over three hours.

On the nose, chalk and oyster shell, lemon curd, white flowers, soil, and marzipan. Deep and toothsome on the palate, yet it all comes across without any sense of heaviness. It's a towering, expansive, yet simultaneously precise, bottle of chiseled soil driven chardonnay just starting to reach maturity. The contrast of power and grace is wonderful. Large scaled, extracted, yet beautifully proportioned with terrific cut and focus that give it a a sense of effortlessness and power without weight. With time it broadens out, gains breadth without losing any of its tension and some orchard fruit emerges to add to the whole. Writing this, my thoughts keep going back to "power and finesse" in one permutation or another. A multifaceted, powerful, yet graceful wine of great harmony. Its incredibly long, mouthwatering finish leaves me wanting more. Drinking at early peak, and barring p'ox I suspect it will go for decades. While I cannot imagine anyone not loving this wine, rock heads really will love this. Another fantastic '07 white burg. 97 pts

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