Community Tasting Note

Ben Christiansen wrote:

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - Upon first having it a not so polite arguement insued over aldehydic vs. brioche note. "You are not interested in the journey of a wine" vs "you don't know what you are talking about." So, you can guess where I am at on the wine.

I think this is a very hard to understand wine, but all the better for it. I mean really, there are enough easy to understand wines in this world do I want yet another Chardonnay that is just Chardonnay?

I was dreaming about this wine, it haunts me. I think the measure is that is 22 months in old oak (new oak?) without the stablity of sulfur. So the wine is somewhat exposed to oxygen. "Jura Style" I believe was the intent.

So here: apples, but not bruised, ripe; cinnamon, oak, yeast notes. Chardonnay fruit notes as well. Very complex. Full ranging palate. Smokin' acidity but you (or I) will miss it at first blanche because this is rather "big".

Its defiantely out of our normal ball park of tastes but it certainly is special. Makes you think that this is why people would oxydize wine in the first place.

Like a baked orange bread. Hints at sweetness, totally subtle though. Like orange zest on spice bread. Very strange, yet so engaging.

I can't stop drinking it. So much of an intellectual pleasure and puzzle. Yet also hedonistic.

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