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Frank Murray III wrote:

Saturday, June 14, 2014 - Chardonnay Blind--CA and France @ Tom Moore's Place (Tom's House): Power chardonnay. With no added air, simply opened and poured off a taste. Don't get the oak sig I got back in 2012. Intense lemon, creamy core, mineral. After another 90 mins, keeps improving with more focus. The intensity in this wine is notable, like a beam of lemony acid, vibrant green apple, kiwi and stones, and again no sign for me of any oak tones....OK, so let me say this, unless I got the order of the wines wrong, as we did this blind over dinner, this CC really went sideways for me. I liked it earlier before I left the house, but when bagged and tasted, this ended up seeming like a glass of 7-Up. While there is lemon, yellow apple and mint, and there is some zesty quality too it, the oak just seemed to emerge, which I had hoped it would have integrated by now. I have one bottle left in the cellar and at $110 per, I'm going to look to sell it. I'd rather drink Dauvissat Forest or Pepiere in multiples than roll all my $$ into something like this. Disappointing and shows once again for me, when the blind is in, all bets are off and humility owns the stage.

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