2008 Wind Gap Wines Chardonnay Yuen James Berry/Brosseau Vineyards
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tkinsley Likes this wine:
93 Points
Friday, April 18, 2014 - Bought at the winery, surprised to find it just as good if not better than when we bought it. Still very youthful and sprightly, but with a little more depth with 5 years in the bottle. Really, really darn good with great acidity and flinty minerality--a perfect halfway between Cali and Chablis. I should have bought more!
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Comment posted by Frank Murray III:
4/18/2014 4:51:00 PM - Ah, timely note. Noodling on putting this wine into a CA/White Burg blind event. To see your comment about flinty minerality is a good sign. Thanks for taking the effort to write this up.
BTW, just bought into the new release of the WG JB chard. Did you grab any?
Comment posted by tkinsley:
4/20/2014 6:41:00 AM - Frank, I think this would show really well amongst some Burgundies--the combo of Pax's style and that seabed soil from James Berry really give it a Chablis-like backbone. I don't know if I'd be able to call it out blind.
Unfortunately I didn't pick up any Wind Gap this year, I'd already over-committed to my Bedrock and Rivers Marie allocations and was feeling guilty...now I'm regretting it!
Comment posted by Frank Murray III:
4/20/2014 8:23:00 AM - If you can wiggle a few bucks out for the 2012 reds, I drank the Sceales grenache and the Nellesen syrah this week. Both were very good examples of CA wine that shows the best features of low alc, acid and balance. With these kinds of wines, makes me not worry about putting new money into CA wines at the expense of France!