Still very nice but changing from crisp apple and lemon to take on more of a baked apple profile. For me, this was better 2-3 years ago when it showed more Chablis character. In contrast, A-R's Trout Gulch of the same vintage is in great place now.
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Wow. Really in a good place. At first felt richer and a bit oaky/malo-y but it settled in so nicely. Lots of acid and balance. One of the more Burgundian California Chardonnays I’ve had. I bet good bottles could go another 5+ years.
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Light yellow-gold, reticent at first, citrus, nectarine, sea spray. Opens nicely with warming and has improved after a few more years in the bottle. Somewhat like an old style Puligny with some Chablis character, but definitely California. Excellent structure and acidity. No oak or butter. Really a marvelous expression of California chardonnay for my tastes. Excellent now, should last, perhaps more will come.
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Asperg Wine Syndrome Tasting Group: February 2020 edition (@home): Glass: Zalto Universal Popped and poured, later decanted. Tasted blind. Clear, pale golden color. Clean, medium intense, youthful-developing nose. Sea and sea salt, mussels, a bit lactic. Freaky, interesting. Bone dry, medium acidity, only 12,5% abv. Very mineral, salty a bid gruff. Very young, lean, no oak, good balance, lacks a bit tension and pressure. That should be Napa Chard? No way… Impressive! Would like to taste this wine again in 5 years. Needs time 89-90+
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Clear light yellow. Creamy orchard fruit, lilacs and cold butter nose. Rich pear and spice flavours and a rich textured finish that needed just bit more acid.
This went perfectly with a scallop dish.
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Served blind. Pale yellow-gold, creamy on the nose and palate. Floral, elegant and refined, more like Sonoma than Napa, with no tropicality or typical California weight. Only 12.5% abv. Really loved this.
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This was much better then the bottle I opened 6 months ago, so either I am seeing some bottle variation or feeling generous for the Holidays.
Smelled and tasted of sweet lemon, granny smith apples, green melon, ocean breeze and seashells. Lean and racy body and acid but OK depth and a pleasant lemony salty finish.
Nice wine but still not a value.
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Pale yellow. Slight cloudiness. Relatively subdued nose. Slightly reductive smoke over melon. Initially light on the tongue growing increasingly intensefor about 15 seconds and then slowly waning. The light/intense contrast is somewhat schizoid. Rather lean in profile. A touch disjoint while cold. Definitely better as it warms and best at 65 oF or so.
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i enjoyed more than C did tonight. She thought too creamy, buttery, oakey, whatevery. I thought had some of those markers but crisp enough to pull it off ok (though I didn't love it). For what it's worth we just haven't been digging too many chardonnay's no matter the style, so probably good that we've pretty much cut off our buying at this point.
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There is a difference between being lean and racy and just being lean, this wine is the latter.
Smelled and tasted of granny smith apples, green pear, ocean breeze and seashells but all washed out. Watery, even the tart acid is washed out and with no real finish.
I like Chardonnay tart and lean but with some flavor and energy, this was just bland. Really awful QPR.
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This really does need to be drunk at cool cellar temperature as the flavors are quite light bodied. Too cold kills this fast. Pale yellow. Light butter, pear, and almond flavors. Good, but I would prefer some more depth and a longer finish. That being said, this really does improve a lot with warmth and air and it getting much deeper as I sit here. I like the Watson Ranch but still prefer Trout Gulch most years.
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So nice, perfect Californian Chardonnay. Not just buttery and fruity. Some coolness and the typical buttery note. Love it - this is the new California which attacks the cool Chardonnay from France. Tasted in a blind tasting against 2015 Meursault: Calfornia wins...
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Tasted over 2 hrs -translucent light gold green -sweet Chardonnay fruit slight funk -med acidity, feather light weight though with a sweet very slightly tropical ripe fruit of moderate depth, OK length -love the light weight elegance though would be even better with more minerality and cut
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With some evolving nuttiness on the nose. Clean on the finish, I like the evolution. Cinnamon, spice, soft in an aged way. Mature, which is fun. Kinda become an odyessy wine - extremely long finish but nothing loud, and savory. Quiet, but in the best possible way.
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My 12 btl of this and still in love with it!!! Pale gold color. Light sparkling fresh floral nose. This has terrific concentration but feels weightless. Very fresh and very pure fruit! Tons of depth but whatever oak it sees is perfectly integrated. None of the all too common sense of oak spice in CA Chards. I particularly love the orange rind on both the nose and palate. Tiny amount of pleasant hazelnut on the nose. Green apple, pear and stonyness. ALC is a modest Euro like 12.5%.
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Just another great btl. One of my 3 favorite CA Chards along with Hanzell and HDV. Then there's just pretty much everybody else who tend to make bigger and less finessed versions than these 3 more nuanced producers.
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Just another great btl. One of my 3 favorite CA Chards along with Hanzell and HDV. Then there's just pretty much everybody else who tend to make bigger and less finessed versions than these 3 more nuanced producers. Hopefully, none have suffered a set back from the fires.
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Nothing new here. Just another terrific btl like my June 21st one. One thought did cross my mind tonight though. Blind, might I not mistake this for either a top shelf Meursault Pierrieres or a Batard Montrachet? This was so Grand Cru tonight and the orange rind notes were fantastic. I own 167 btls of Chardonnay. 159 of them are French. So, I'm no CA Chardonnay bobo but, I love this producer's version! 12.5% Alc. Terrific sub $40 value to boot. Ok, I hate the wax capsule :).
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Had the 2015 about six months ago and it wasn't hitting the heights of 2014 yet and may never. Drinking fantastic tonight with trout and ideal serving temp. Pale gold color. Light sparkling fresh floral nose. This has terrific concentration but feels weightless. Very fresh and very pure fruit! Tons of depth but whatever oak it sees is perfectly integrated. None of the all too common sense of oak spice in CA Chards. I particularly love the orange rind on both the nose and palate. Tiny amount of pleasant hazelnut on the nose. Green apple, pear and stonyness. ALC is a modest Euro like 12.5%. These guys hit a home run. Paid $35 and totally worth it. There are, for sure, some other nice CA Chards out there but at a bigger hype tariff. Organically farmed and from a wind whipped hillside overlooking San Pablo Bay
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More herbal notes tonight than in my prior bottle. Still some ripe pear and a bit of oak at the end. I like but do not love this, and that's more a matter of texture than flavor. It is a less focused and broader style. Opened 2015 of same wine last week and at present prefer 2014
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Agreed w other notes there is a mild creaminess here. Pear/stone with medium acid. I like drinking this but prefer the high toned acidity of the trout gulch bottling
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Christmas Eve Fleming's Dinner, nose of minerals, apple, Bosc pear, and milk shake, same on the palate, medium/big body, rich taste like a milk shake, not sweet but luxuriant, added to the minerals and citrus flavors it is almost mouth filling and a delight to drink, opened and improved nicely during the two hour dinner, and a medium/long finish.
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Light yellow. Needs to be drunk cool not cold as flavors start out muted otherwise. Bright, lemon, nice quinine on finish, some roundness to it. Better on day two. This will last for awhile and clearly getting better so give it another year or two.
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Pale yellow core to a clear meniscus in the glass. Wonderful nose of green fruit, lemon and mineral. I get the 'creaminess' that others have noted, and agree that it did not detract from the wine. Palate followed the nose with a crisp clean finish.
Will hold on to the other bottle for a few years to see how it evolves, but delicious now.
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I tend to find the Arnot-Roberts Chardonnays somewhat Chablisien in style so I was a bit surprised when this one smelled and tasted slightly "creamier" than I was expecting. Presumably from the barrels? No harm though, as that touch only added a bit of extra depth and interest that made this bottle one that was much appreciated by each person at the table. Well done.
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Probably better with food. Though refreshing doesn't have the depth to go alone. Definately a restrained low manipulation style. Light yellow color with a musty nose that has a hint of lemon and steel. Palate is light but not crisp with a creaminess that follows to finish. Again, lemon peel, beeswax, must, and minerality. Would have guess Jura. Did gain depth and intensity with time open.
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A wine of clean, mostly linear flavors with an elegant/light touch throughout. Becomes too subtle and watery on day 2. Drank the first glass+ too cold, which covered over the mineral cut of the wine. Drink now-2019.
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Elegant and restrained but still very intense and concentrated. Yellow fruit with sweet herbs and stones. Long and perfectly balanced. Great bottle of wine!
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One of the best chardonnays I've had in a long while. Jura like on the nose (not oxidative, but with some real yuzu like unctuous umami), long, complex, crisp, lovely.
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Great as always but I had it a little over chilled in our ice cooler. We had 8 of us on my deck and I wanted to keep the whites cool. This saw a little too much cooler time muting the flavors. I'm hoping everyone enjoyed it none the less. It remains a super bargain at the $35 I paid for it. My 4th of 7 btls since March. I rarely drink that much wine from one producer in such a short period of time.
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Tapas & an Embarassment of Riches at Craig's (Craig & Nita's Place): Pale greenish gold color. Drank 1 glass over an hour. I just had this a month ago and it was straight down the line consistent. Reminiscent of Chablis, so clean and fresh with striking minerality and green fruit. Loved it as expected.
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From a cool site in southern Napa, planted in 1993 over a vein of limestone. These 20+ year old vines produce a wine that is racy, clean and mineral-laden to the core. There is zero fat here. Impressive!
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The wine looks straw colored. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells and tastes of grapefruit, lemon, lime, apple, peach, melon, passion fruit, flint, mineral and stoniness. The body is light/medium. The wine has angular texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has high acidity. Delicious!
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Towards the riper end of the spectrum (ripe for AR that is) but still very balanced. Pineapple, hint of orange peel, slightly nutty, flint, good acid and medium length.
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Pale green color. Split a bottle over 2.5 hours with the tasting menu at Guy Savoy. I have loved the previous bottles of Arnot-Robert Chard I've had, and when I spotted this on the list at Guy Savoy I knew it would be a brilliant pairing for two-thirds of the tasting menu. I'll absolutely echo Chablis28's recent note. The nose is bright with white fruits, delicate green apple, that build on tangerine and lemon with breezy minerality. The palate is crystalline, pure and intense with an elegant weightlessness, fine minerality, medium body and a very long finish. Also as noted previously, no oak in site here. Fantastic! Our French waiter who had not tried it previously, was duly impressed.
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first of this wine and winery...well, lovely light bodied yet very meursault like, orchard fruit and citrus primarily, some oily nut like presense also.
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Purchased on a lark for $32 from Envoyer. To memory, my first wine from this producer which I understand has a persistant cult following. Ok. Well made, fun little wine that doesn't act anything like a Chardonnay. In fact, it tasted like a Lieu Dit Melon with a very strong peach note. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but when the typicity is this wayward, it's perplexing to me. A+ for being different. NR
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Being the French snob I can be, I tend to go out of my way to ignore CA Chards. Lately, only buying the occasional Hanzell or Stony Hill. Most, for me, are too heavy handed and high ALC. This wine was suggested locally and I took a shot. Very glad I did. Pale gold color. This has terrific concentration but feels weightless. Very fresh and very pure fruit! Tons of depth but whatever oak it sees is perfectly integrated. None of the all too common sense of oak spice in CA Chards. I particularly love the orange rind on both the nose and palate. Tiny amount of pleasant hazelnut on the nose. Green apple, pear and stonyness. ALC is a modest Euro like 12.5%. These guys hit a home run. Paid $35 and totally worth it. 93-pts. There are, for sure, some other nice CA Chards out there but at a bigger hype tariff. Organically farmed and from a wind whipped hillside overlooking San Pablo Bay.
Brief impression from a casual dinner. Lifted aromas of orchard fruit, citrus peel and mineral. Medium body with sweet white fruit and robust, bracing acids. Clean, fresh finish.
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Somewhat rounder and richer than the Trout Gulch. Nice notes of butter, pineapple and tropical whatever. But very light and crisp at the same time. Young but nice to drink now and guessing this will hold for a couple years.
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Had to bust open a bottle upon shipment arrival to sample, the rest going in the cellar. Medium yellow straw color, stones and green apple on the nose, the usual wonderful acidity and clean, crisp, non-adulterated Chardonnay goodness that I love from this producer and terroir. Looking forward to revisiting these later. Very impressive.
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1/22/2022 - stoneb Likes this wine: 90 Points
Still very nice but changing from crisp apple and lemon to take on more of a baked apple profile. For me, this was better 2-3 years ago when it showed more Chablis character. In contrast, A-R's Trout Gulch of the same vintage is in great place now.
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7/8/2020 - aaacerbic Likes this wine:
Wow. Really in a good place. At first felt richer and a bit oaky/malo-y but it settled in so nicely. Lots of acid and balance. One of the more Burgundian California Chardonnays I’ve had. I bet good bottles could go another 5+ years.
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5/4/2020 - vindictive wrote:
Light yellow-gold, reticent at first, citrus, nectarine, sea spray. Opens nicely with warming and has improved after a few more years in the bottle. Somewhat like an old style Puligny with some Chablis character, but definitely California. Excellent structure and acidity. No oak or butter. Really a marvelous expression of California chardonnay for my tastes. Excellent now, should last, perhaps more will come.
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3/26/2020 - shaffej wrote: 92 Points
Butter bomb
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3/14/2020 - andrewdodd86 wrote: 94 Points
All tropical fruit, suspect zero malo and zero oak. Delicious
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2/28/2020 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 90 Points
Asperg Wine Syndrome Tasting Group: February 2020 edition (@home): Glass: Zalto Universal
Popped and poured, later decanted. Tasted blind.
Clear, pale golden color. Clean, medium intense, youthful-developing nose. Sea and sea salt, mussels, a bit lactic. Freaky, interesting.
Bone dry, medium acidity, only 12,5% abv. Very mineral, salty a bid gruff. Very young, lean, no oak, good balance, lacks a bit tension and pressure. That should be Napa Chard? No way… Impressive! Would like to taste this wine again in 5 years. Needs time 89-90+
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2/26/2020 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Coravin Sample - Unchilled- bright tropical citrus and tropical fruit. Pineapple. Delicious. Damn. Perfectly aged.
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12/19/2019 - David J Cooper wrote: 91 Points
Clear light yellow. Creamy orchard fruit, lilacs and cold butter nose. Rich pear and spice flavours and a rich textured finish that needed just bit more acid.
This went perfectly with a scallop dish.
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12/15/2019 - Neecies Likes this wine:
Served blind. Pale yellow-gold, creamy on the nose and palate. Floral, elegant and refined, more like Sonoma than Napa, with no tropicality or typical California weight. Only 12.5% abv. Really loved this.
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12/1/2019 - mikered Likes this wine: 87 Points
This was much better then the bottle I opened 6 months ago, so either I am seeing some bottle variation or feeling generous for the Holidays.
Smelled and tasted of sweet lemon, granny smith apples, green melon, ocean breeze and seashells. Lean and racy body and acid but OK depth and a pleasant lemony salty finish.
Nice wine but still not a value.
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11/1/2019 - Sourdough Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pale yellow. Slight cloudiness. Relatively subdued nose. Slightly reductive smoke over melon. Initially light on the tongue growing increasingly intensefor about 15 seconds and then slowly waning. The light/intense contrast is somewhat schizoid. Rather lean in profile. A touch disjoint while cold. Definitely better as it warms and best at 65 oF or so.
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10/3/2019 - domco wrote:
i enjoyed more than C did tonight. She thought too creamy, buttery, oakey, whatevery. I thought had some of those markers but crisp enough to pull it off ok (though I didn't love it). For what it's worth we just haven't been digging too many chardonnay's no matter the style, so probably good that we've pretty much cut off our buying at this point.
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9/5/2019 - bcg14 wrote: 92 Points
Slightly reductive, but a beautiful example of an elegant, medium weight chardonnay.
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5/25/2019 - mikered wrote: 84 Points
There is a difference between being lean and racy and just being lean, this wine is the latter.
Smelled and tasted of granny smith apples, green pear, ocean breeze and seashells but all washed out. Watery, even the tart acid is washed out and with no real finish.
I like Chardonnay tart and lean but with some flavor and energy, this was just bland. Really awful QPR.
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11/23/2018 - acidqueen wrote: 90 Points
This really does need to be drunk at cool cellar temperature as the flavors are quite light bodied. Too cold kills this fast. Pale yellow. Light butter, pear, and almond flavors. Good, but I would prefer some more depth and a longer finish. That being said, this really does improve a lot with warmth and air and it getting much deeper as I sit here. I like the Watson Ranch but still prefer Trout Gulch most years.
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9/2/2018 - slulkin wrote: 90 Points
Agree with Amerique's 8/28/18 note, "Citrus fruit with tart flavors, good structure, high acidity, short finish"
Paired perfectly with toasted crostini topped with apple butter, brie, green apple, pecan and honey.
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8/28/2018 - Amerique wrote: 91 Points
Citrus fruit with tart flavors, good structure, high acidity, short finish
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6/26/2018 - Brown11 Likes this wine: 94 Points
So nice, perfect Californian Chardonnay. Not just buttery and fruity. Some coolness and the typical buttery note. Love it - this is the new California which attacks the cool Chardonnay from France. Tasted in a blind tasting against 2015 Meursault: Calfornia wins...
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3/18/2018 - Cote d'Or wrote:
Tasted over 2 hrs
-translucent light gold green
-sweet Chardonnay fruit slight funk
-med acidity, feather light weight though with a sweet very slightly tropical ripe fruit of moderate depth, OK length
-love the light weight elegance though would be even better with more minerality and cut
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3/7/2018 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
With some evolving nuttiness on the nose. Clean on the finish, I like the evolution. Cinnamon, spice, soft in an aged way. Mature, which is fun. Kinda become an odyessy wine - extremely long finish but nothing loud, and savory. Quiet, but in the best possible way.
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2/15/2018 - wiscgrad wrote: 93 Points
a strong lemon/sour on that palate, but balanced with some light oak. quite delicious.
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12/19/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
My 12 btl of this and still in love with it!!! Pale gold color. Light sparkling fresh floral nose. This has terrific concentration but feels weightless. Very fresh and very pure fruit! Tons of depth but whatever oak it sees is perfectly integrated. None of the all too common sense of oak spice in CA Chards. I particularly love the orange rind on both the nose and palate. Tiny amount of pleasant hazelnut on the nose. Green apple, pear and stonyness. ALC is a modest Euro like 12.5%.
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11/12/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
Just another great btl. One of my 3 favorite CA Chards along with Hanzell and HDV. Then there's just pretty much everybody else who tend to make bigger and less finessed versions than these 3 more nuanced producers.
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10/13/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
Just another great btl. One of my 3 favorite CA Chards along with Hanzell and HDV. Then there's just pretty much everybody else who tend to make bigger and less finessed versions than these 3 more nuanced producers. Hopefully, none have suffered a set back from the fires.
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9/10/2017 - 560 B&W Likes this wine: 92 Points
PnP. Drinking beautifully but still has time to mature. Mid-weight, great acidity. 12.5%
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9/9/2017 - Bakerbd Likes this wine: 91 Points
Lemon, pear, some rich tropical notes but also a flinty-saline-Chablis-esque element. Great hybrid of France and California
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8/5/2017 - R.H. Likes this wine:
consistent w prior.
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7/15/2017 - Tym4wine Likes this wine: 89 Points
Nicely done. Crisp, lively, and refreshing. Sublime oak, no butter. A nice blend of fruit forward Chardonnay and mineralogy. Surprising. Great QPR.
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7/12/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 94 Points
Nothing new here. Just another terrific btl like my June 21st one. One thought did cross my mind tonight though. Blind, might I not mistake this for either a top shelf Meursault Pierrieres or a Batard Montrachet? This was so Grand Cru tonight and the orange rind notes were fantastic. I own 167 btls of Chardonnay. 159 of them are French. So, I'm no CA Chardonnay bobo but, I love this producer's version! 12.5% Alc. Terrific sub $40 value to boot. Ok, I hate the wax capsule :).
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7/6/2017 - bps2266 wrote: 92 Points
nose with white mushroom, yellow apple, peach, and stone. creamy and delightful.
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6/21/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 94 Points
Had the 2015 about six months ago and it wasn't hitting the heights of 2014 yet and may never. Drinking fantastic tonight with trout and ideal serving temp. Pale gold color. Light sparkling fresh floral nose. This has terrific concentration but feels weightless. Very fresh and very pure fruit! Tons of depth but whatever oak it sees is perfectly integrated. None of the all too common sense of oak spice in CA Chards. I particularly love the orange rind on both the nose and palate. Tiny amount of pleasant hazelnut on the nose. Green apple, pear and stonyness. ALC is a modest Euro like 12.5%. These guys hit a home run. Paid $35 and totally worth it. There are, for sure, some other nice CA Chards out there but at a bigger hype tariff. Organically farmed and from a wind whipped hillside overlooking San Pablo Bay
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5/25/2017 - Omar Khayyam Likes this wine: 94 Points
Just fantastic Chardonnay all the way. See previous note.
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5/14/2017 - wiscgrad wrote: 93 Points
tons of citrus and tropical fruit. nice acidity running thru the finish. excellent example of new world chardonnay.
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4/3/2017 - R.H. Likes this wine:
More herbal notes tonight than in my prior bottle. Still some ripe pear and a bit of oak at the end. I like but do not love this, and that's more a matter of texture than flavor. It is a less focused and broader style. Opened 2015 of same wine last week and at present prefer 2014
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1/17/2017 - R.H. Likes this wine:
Agreed w other notes there is a mild creaminess here. Pear/stone with medium acid. I like drinking this but prefer the high toned acidity of the trout gulch bottling
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12/24/2016 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 92 Points
Christmas Eve Fleming's Dinner, nose of minerals, apple, Bosc pear, and milk shake, same on the palate, medium/big body, rich taste like a milk shake, not sweet but luxuriant, added to the minerals and citrus flavors it is almost mouth filling and a delight to drink, opened and improved nicely during the two hour dinner, and a medium/long finish.
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11/25/2016 - acidqueen wrote: 91 Points
Light yellow. Needs to be drunk cool not cold as flavors start out muted otherwise. Bright, lemon, nice quinine on finish, some roundness to it. Better on day two. This will last for awhile and clearly getting better so give it another year or two.
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10/21/2016 - slulkin Likes this wine: 91 Points
Pale yellow core to a clear meniscus in the glass. Wonderful nose of green fruit, lemon and mineral. I get the 'creaminess' that others have noted, and agree that it did not detract from the wine. Palate followed the nose with a crisp clean finish.
Will hold on to the other bottle for a few years to see how it evolves, but delicious now.
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9/6/2016 - slanum wrote:
I tend to find the Arnot-Roberts Chardonnays somewhat Chablisien in style so I was a bit surprised when this one smelled and tasted slightly "creamier" than I was expecting. Presumably from the barrels? No harm though, as that touch only added a bit of extra depth and interest that made this bottle one that was much appreciated by each person at the table. Well done.
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9/4/2016 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 91 Points
Probably better with food. Though refreshing doesn't have the depth to go alone. Definately a restrained low manipulation style. Light yellow color with a musty nose that has a hint of lemon and steel. Palate is light but not crisp with a creaminess that follows to finish. Again, lemon peel, beeswax, must, and minerality. Would have guess Jura. Did gain depth and intensity with time open.
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8/25/2016 - pryby Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very clean and elegant Chardonnay. Lemon curd, delicate floral and mineral notes, and just a little hint of oak in the finish.
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8/13/2016 - mfeibert Likes this wine: 91 Points
A very different Napa Chardonnay. Drinks like a Chablis. Notes of green apple; would go well with seafood.
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8/3/2016 - silton Likes this wine: 91 Points
A wine of clean, mostly linear flavors with an elegant/light touch throughout. Becomes too subtle and watery on day 2. Drank the first glass+ too cold, which covered over the mineral cut of the wine. Drink now-2019.
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7/17/2016 - aekenback wrote: 93 Points
Elegant and restrained but still very intense and concentrated. Yellow fruit with sweet herbs and stones. Long and perfectly balanced. Great bottle of wine!
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7/1/2016 - Omar Khayyam Likes this wine: 95 Points
One of the best chardonnays I've had in a long while. Jura like on the nose (not oxidative, but with some real yuzu like unctuous umami), long, complex, crisp, lovely.
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6/30/2016 - Rezy13 wrote:
Crisp and fresh, good oak, very white Burgundy feel to this, still good fruit; very nice, don't want to spit this.
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6/24/2016 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
Great as always but I had it a little over chilled in our ice cooler. We had 8 of us on my deck and I wanted to keep the whites cool. This saw a little too much cooler time muting the flavors. I'm hoping everyone enjoyed it none the less. It remains a super bargain at the $35 I paid for it. My 4th of 7 btls since March. I rarely drink that much wine from one producer in such a short period of time.
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6/23/2016 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Tapas & an Embarassment of Riches at Craig's (Craig & Nita's Place): Pale greenish gold color. Drank 1 glass over an hour. I just had this a month ago and it was straight down the line consistent. Reminiscent of Chablis, so clean and fresh with striking minerality and green fruit. Loved it as expected.
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6/18/2016 - Drankard wrote: 92 Points
From a cool site in southern Napa, planted in 1993 over a vein of limestone. These 20+ year old vines produce a wine that is racy, clean and mineral-laden to the core. There is zero fat here. Impressive!
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6/15/2016 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
This chardonnay is like crack for me. Can't drink it often enough! My 4th btl since March.
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6/1/2016 - dmwold wrote:
The wine looks straw colored. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells and tastes of grapefruit, lemon, lime, apple, peach, melon, passion fruit, flint, mineral and stoniness. The body is light/medium. The wine has angular texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has high acidity. Delicious!
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5/22/2016 - qcwino wrote:
Towards the riper end of the spectrum (ripe for AR that is) but still very balanced. Pineapple, hint of orange peel, slightly nutty, flint, good acid and medium length.
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5/15/2016 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Pale green color. Split a bottle over 2.5 hours with the tasting menu at Guy Savoy. I have loved the previous bottles of Arnot-Robert Chard I've had, and when I spotted this on the list at Guy Savoy I knew it would be a brilliant pairing for two-thirds of the tasting menu. I'll absolutely echo Chablis28's recent note. The nose is bright with white fruits, delicate green apple, that build on tangerine and lemon with breezy minerality. The palate is crystalline, pure and intense with an elegant weightlessness, fine minerality, medium body and a very long finish. Also as noted previously, no oak in site here. Fantastic! Our French waiter who had not tried it previously, was duly impressed.
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4/29/2016 - Louvin wrote: 93 Points
first of this wine and winery...well, lovely light bodied yet very meursault like, orchard fruit and citrus primarily, some oily nut like presense also.
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4/9/2016 - jeff nowak wrote:
Purchased on a lark for $32 from Envoyer. To memory, my first wine from this producer which I understand has a persistant cult following. Ok. Well made, fun little wine that doesn't act anything like a Chardonnay. In fact, it tasted like a Lieu Dit Melon with a very strong peach note. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but when the typicity is this wayward, it's perplexing to me. A+ for being different. NR
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3/19/2016 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
Carbon copy of btl from10 days ago. Excellent!
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3/9/2016 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
Being the French snob I can be, I tend to go out of my way to ignore CA Chards. Lately, only buying the occasional Hanzell or Stony Hill. Most, for me, are too heavy handed and high ALC. This wine was suggested locally and I took a shot. Very glad I did. Pale gold color. This has terrific concentration but feels weightless. Very fresh and very pure fruit! Tons of depth but whatever oak it sees is perfectly integrated. None of the all too common sense of oak spice in CA Chards. I particularly love the orange rind on both the nose and palate. Tiny amount of pleasant hazelnut on the nose. Green apple, pear and stonyness. ALC is a modest Euro like 12.5%. These guys hit a home run. Paid $35 and totally worth it. 93-pts. There are, for sure, some other nice CA Chards out there but at a bigger hype tariff. Organically farmed and from a wind whipped hillside overlooking San Pablo Bay.
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3/6/2016 - Nanda wrote: 92 Points
Brief impression from a casual dinner. Lifted aromas of orchard fruit, citrus peel and mineral. Medium body with sweet white fruit and robust, bracing acids. Clean, fresh finish.
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2/11/2016 - 560 B&W Likes this wine: 92 Points
PnP. How can it have the weight it has with such low alcohol? Possible upscore with time. 12.5%
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11/15/2015 - acidqueen wrote: 91 Points
Somewhat rounder and richer than the Trout Gulch. Nice notes of butter, pineapple and tropical whatever. But very light and crisp at the same time. Young but nice to drink now and guessing this will hold for a couple years.
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11/9/2015 - markydecker Likes this wine: 93 Points
Had to bust open a bottle upon shipment arrival to sample, the rest going in the cellar. Medium yellow straw color, stones and green apple on the nose, the usual wonderful acidity and clean, crisp, non-adulterated Chardonnay goodness that I love from this producer and terroir. Looking forward to revisiting these later. Very impressive.
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