Right in line with Lauren but a step behind Sugar Shack at this stage. Prior note holds. Big and ripe but nuanced. Drink these now of hold five plus more years.
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What a wine! Had it with grilled lobster tails and it was drinking beautifully with it but also excellent on its own. Golden yellow in color nose has bouquet of apple tart, pears, peach cobbler pie, buttery vanilla, lemon oil, cashew nuts, white flowers and herbal notes of dill. Palate is extremely balanced and polished of orchard fruit with tropical fruit notes in harmonious package with lively acidity and long tangy finish. 97-98 pts.
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Brilliant yellow-gold after 90-minute decant. A voluptuous mix of ripe apple, lemon, fresh-cut hay and sunflowers with a crisp apple-skin finish. Drink over next 4 years.
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The wine of the night. Huge spectacular flavor super intense with acid and fruit and butter all in a focused package. The acid meant it went well with food in spite of being so big with flavor.
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PnP. Medium gold. Nose of tropical fruits and citrus. On the palate this is quite unctuous as is typical for Aubert and quite tropical fruit driven. Just enough acidity on the finish to prevent it from being cloying. Not sure this will pair well with food but nice to drink on its own.
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On the nose, notes of Meyers lemons, hibiscus, sliced pears and green apples. Wonderful mouthfeel with layers of lemon curd, green apples, white peaches and candied limes. A terrific wine.
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Brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear, brioche and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish. Just not as vibrant as the bottle we drank 7 months ago but still an amazing bottle of chardonnay.
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A hefty cannabis on the nose cuvée. I find no faults with this Chardonnay or any of Auberts’ bottles. Excellent! Well worth spending more for a bottle that amazes. *2nd night apple makes an appearance. Cannabis char resin has retreated. Kept at room temperature. Notes of distant tropical floral notes. Still everything perfect, no complaints. Notes of vanilla oak on the palette.
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A very hefty and Classic Aubert with yellow juicy fruit. Has a very complex and mineral driven complexity that already has quite a bit of character for a 2017 Chardonnay of its magnitude. Many Chardonnays are quite overpriced for what they offer but these Chardonnays are well worth their value for the complexity and opulence that they consistently deliver from year to year. A very grippy wine that goes with anything. This was served as the aperitif wine and served with tomatillo salsa and chips, rosemary asiago cheese and hummus. The complexity of this wine went well with all of this. You can easily hold this wine for a number of years. But if you decide to drink it, a pop and pour without a doubt.
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Absolutely fantastic winemaking. Golden yellow color with mostly pear, green apple, some tropical flavors. Quite a lot of oak but it is harmonious. Slightly oily with citrus to support the acidity. Minarality at the very back end. Long finish. Not noticing the 15 percent alcohol at all. Simply superb.
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PnP chilled w/15-90 minute glass time. Delicious as always. Confirms it's the best CA Chard out there. Oaky on the nose but not when tasted. Big, bright, fruit, mineral, full throttle but well balanced and integrated. Excellent drinking window. Always a wonderful treat. Nothing off. D/J's
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nose - caramel, creme brulee, butterscotch, caramel corn mouth - huge caramel corn wine. powerful and long. not bad but a bit heavy for my style. as it warms it starts to taste like a butterscotch sucker.
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The 17 CIX had matured at bit since I last tasted it. Very rich and round on the palate. Alcohol feels quite high at 15%, and I don’t think it’s integrating all that well. I know some folks like their Aubert with a lot of age, but not me. Some of the newer bottlings (powder house) need a few years for the oak to integrate, but I personally feel that CIX is best 1-2 years after release.
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blind Too much oak, decanted for 3 hours, not perfect glasses and warmed a bit too warm in the beginning. After 1 hour better but typical Chardy Bardy. 93?
I had not opened a bottle for a year and a half and this wine is still brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear, brioche and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish. The Aubert chardonnays are just amazing.
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Smooooth! Other tasting notes can tell you the aromas and flavors, but the first word in this review sums it all up! Drinking fine now, but I will wait another year for another bottle.
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Aromas of Meyer lemon vanilla and melons. Very viscous rich luscious mouthfeel. Plenty of stone fruit and melon with some citrus and enough acid and minerality to keep everything in balance. Super silky. This is CA Chardonnay at its finest.
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Wonderful nose consisting of Meyers lemons, citrus blossoms, honeysuckle and butter. Very nice mouthfeel and layers of honeydew melon, lemon curd, butter, lemon grass and green apples. Another wonderful Chardonnay from the team at Aubert.
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One hour decant. Pale straw color, light on its feet, offering vanilla, balsa wood, fresh-cut daisies and sweet citrus notes that fan out for 45 seconds. A stunning wine, even better than 18 months ago.
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I try to keep my hands off these, but they are so incredibly delicious in their youth (most, that is). This was my first CIX from 2017, and I think so far the most accessible would be Hudson and then Powder House.
My wife and I poured about half of this out in to our glasses at pop, and then double decanted the other half and came back to it an hour or so later before consuming over the following hour. In comparison to other Aubert offerings from this vintage, this was the most tart/sported the most lemon type profile. Typical Aubert lemon cream was present here along with smoked marzipan on the nose. The palate, again, was really quite tart showing grilled lemon, salted popcorn kernel, spiced golden delicious apple and honey roasted cashews. The profile here was really powerful. Obviously I opened on the young side, but this shows a lot of aging potential (compared to their Hudson). It came across as a blend of Eastside + Powder House. Good acidity, big phenolics. I’d probably hold (though the double decant did open this up a decent bit), and expect this to jump a few points easily over the next 3-5yrs.
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Marzipan, beeswax and smoke aromatics. Dark yellow color. Excellent fruit concentration, this wine has ripe fruit flavor with a vanillin undertaste. Rich and lush, it has a viscous texture, moderate acidity, and good length. For Aubert, this is surprisingly forward, with only moderate acid to accompany enormous fruit extract.I was surprised at how delicious it is now and would guess that will hold an additional 2 years.
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This wine has settled into a more integrated and open-knit groove than six months ago (9/20 - 93+ points). Light yellow in color and full in body, the wine offers aromas of lemon meringue, brioche, pear, and almond. Flavors of lime, quince, French toast, and vanilla bean, with a layered and energetic finish. This still doesn't have the balance and density of the best Aubert wines, but it's improved with time. 94+ at the moment, with upside in 2022. 15% alcohol.
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Light gold color, very clear and sparkly. The nose was lemon fruit, some nutmeg and oak. Slight acid on the palate with lemons and toasted oak flavors. A strong, full finish, almost bold! Very Burgundian!
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An amazing Chardonnay with explosive citrus fruit along with pear and toast on the finish. Round, fresh and in typical Aubert style, perfectly made...as good as Chardonnay gets.
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Brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear, brioche and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish.- Similar to the bottle we drank 6 months ago. The Aubert chardonnays are just amazing.
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This rich and candied Chardonnay is more ambitious but less enjoyable (at least currently) than other two 2017 Auberts I've tasted to date - the Eastside and Hudson. There is a lot going on here, but the volume is too loud right now. Give this another year, and it should be just as powerful, but far more charming.
Light yellow in color and full in body, the wine offers aromas of pear, ripe apricot, brioche, vanillin (ie, more syrupy and less precise than vanilla bean, in my mind), and nutmeg. Flavors of poached pear, grilled peach, grapefruit, golden delicious apple, and almond, with a steely and viscous finish that is both acidic and creamy. 15% alcohol.
If serving now, keep the temperature low and decant at least two hours. I think this wine will get there with more bottle age, but it's not ready yet. Like some Auberts, it's not blowsy, but it's walking the line (Johnny Cash reference intended - such a great song). 93+ for now, with upside in 2021-2022.
P.S. I tasted this on the same night as a 2017 Peter Michael Ma Belle-Fille, which blew the Aubert out of the water. Side-by-side, the Peter Michael came across as more fresh, precise, and unencumbered (read: no overlay of cedar and vanilla). To be sure, both are modern wines with plenty of oak and fruit opened (perhaps) too early, but the high elevation and (dare I say) more restrained winemaking gave the PM the edge tonight. The Aubert had a little more flavor, but the Peter Michael had a lot more class.
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Decided to murder a bottle of young Aubert. It's Friday and I'm in the mood. These wines are always intriguing. I dare say that this has the Aubert finish that is uniquely Aubert..but then that would mean that I could always pick it out of a blind lineup and I'm not sure that I could do that. The nose seems to have some lemon, youthful peach and apricot. The pour reveals a hazy straw color. The front is round, yet not as voluptuous, medium+ bodied. Banana nut, a little tart yellow fruit, white pepper to the finish and a little more acidic on the back than I observe with the ones that have a few years of age. Could this one improve with some years of cellar time? Undoubtedly so. But no matter the characteristics that would change, this replacing that, and that replacing this, I would probably only bump this one point for tart and acidity yielding to fruit notes on the finish. So if you have these, murder away!
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Of the 4 Aubert Chard's I've drank, this is the only one that drew me in with a magnetic presence and is head-n-shoulders above the others....Powder House, Larry Hyde, and Sonoma Coast, which I won't buy again. I uncorked it first for 30 minutes and then experimented by pouring half the bottle in a tall decanter for another 30 minutes. Blinded, my wife and I then decided which we preferred aromatically and flavor-wise and the decanted one was clearly better. As the very last of the bottle was the best, I recommend pouring this into a tall decanter for 60-90 minutes first, so that it starts out singing! It has intensely concentrated aromas and flavors that I'm now believing is Aubert's signature style. It has complex, layered elements of orange marmalade, lemon, butterscotch, pie crust, and river stones. With air, this evolved and became increasingly intriguing. I think this will continue to a peak in a few years, but has a long life ahead. Well done!
Lean and briny with notes of hay at first, this pale yellow, light-intensity wine opens after two hours of air into a showy, expressive wine of considerable depth and concentration, with lemon, grapefruit and honeysuckle notes on a lingering stone finish. Drinkable now, but a wine to watch and savor through 2025 or longer.
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Brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish. Just wow. Served with Lemon Sole baked mediterranean style.
Expressive nose of ripe pear, lemon curd, pineapple, vanilla and acacia. Ripe flavors of aforementioned fruit are balanced by bracing acidity and underlying minerality. Viscous on the palate leading to long lip- smacking finish. Another substantial wine from Aubert. Delicious now but with perceptible weight that will undoubtably drink well for many years to come.
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Astoundingly good chardonnay. This wine showed great early, with burned sugar, unripe pear, yellow apple, and raw macadamia nut. Good supportive acidity and first class fruit. My nose was glued to the glass. Domestic chardonnay can’t get much better
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Awesome line-up for an early Christmas. Aubert Chardonnay, Kathryn Hall Cabernet and Carter Three Kings. The best trio I have ever had.
Decanted the Aubert for one hour and then put back into the bottle. Enjoyed two hours later. Bright golden in color. Pear, lemon grass and some mineral on the nose. Refreshing pear and lemon on the palate with a long crisp finish. Aubert is a rare chardonnay in which cab lovers say holy chit. Our entire group of eight were raving. Fantastic Chardonnay!
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Strong oak and luscious pineapple right away, which settles down as the wine opens up. And then, wow! Strap in, you're going on a journey. This wine is a laser beam. Absolutely delicious. Like being on a Light Cycle in Tron. So fun.
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Opened in the bottle for 3-4 hours. Possibly the best of the 17 Aubert. Rich, round, crisp and fresh. Stone fruit, butterscotch, white flowers, honey, lemon, and vanilla. No sharp edges now but definitely room for the flavors to develop.
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Dios mio! Absolutely stunning and perfectly balanced. It's a full bodied chardonnay but it's also delicate and nuanced. Flavors galore include peach, lemon, mint/herb, vanilla (Madagascar of course), tropical fruit. I might be under scoring this with a rating of 96. Mercibecoup Herns!
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Wow, this wine is unreal. There are a few threads here: Oak and other woody notes, but also creamy fruit without a malolactic profile, and then also golden raisin essence without the sugar. Takes about 10-15 minutes to start opening up even at this youthful age. This is the kind of wine you need to sit and experience over a few hours as its profile evolves in the glass. Damn, this is incredible.
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Their CIX pinot was the bomb(on the right day I would've given it up to a 97) and I can already tell from the nose this is way more complex than the Larry Hyde & Sons.
Double Decanted for 4 hours. Chamomile, lemongrass, flint and river stone minerality. Chalky texture for a white. Gun powder as well.
Sadly there's less density and less acidity on the palate than the Larry Hyde & Sons.
But I think the flavor profile is more interesting.
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9/11/2023 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 96 Points
Right in line with Lauren but a step behind Sugar Shack at this stage. Prior note holds. Big and ripe but nuanced. Drink these now of hold five plus more years.
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8/7/2023 - advinm41 Likes this wine: 97 Points
What a wine! Had it with grilled lobster tails and it was drinking beautifully with it but also excellent on its own. Golden yellow in color nose has bouquet of apple tart, pears, peach cobbler pie, buttery vanilla, lemon oil, cashew nuts, white flowers and herbal notes of dill. Palate is extremely balanced and polished of orchard fruit with tropical fruit notes in harmonious package with lively acidity and long tangy finish. 97-98 pts.
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7/25/2023 - dkwins Likes this wine: 95 Points
Ripe pear, lemon, apple, classic Aubert. The standard in Cali chard
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4/8/2023 - Winedad53 wrote: 95 Points
Brilliant yellow-gold after 90-minute decant. A voluptuous mix of ripe apple, lemon, fresh-cut hay and sunflowers with a crisp apple-skin finish. Drink over next 4 years.
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2/23/2023 - sh6k Likes this wine: 97 Points
The wine of the night. Huge spectacular flavor super intense with acid and fruit and butter all in a focused package. The acid meant it went well with food in spite of being so big with flavor.
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1/6/2023 - rosenst1 wrote: 92 Points
PnP. Medium gold. Nose of tropical fruits and citrus. On the palate this is quite unctuous as is typical for Aubert and quite tropical fruit driven. Just enough acidity on the finish to prevent it from being cloying. Not sure this will pair well with food but nice to drink on its own.
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12/30/2022 - Countless Likes this wine: 90 Points
At or just beyond peak
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12/4/2022 - Snag One Likes this wine: 95 Points
On the nose, notes of Meyers lemons, hibiscus, sliced pears and green apples. Wonderful mouthfeel with layers of lemon curd, green apples, white peaches and candied limes. A terrific wine.
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11/26/2022 - markcic Likes this wine: 96 Points
Brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear, brioche and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish. Just not as vibrant as the bottle we drank 7 months ago but still an amazing bottle of chardonnay.
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11/2/2022 - LB88 wrote: 94 Points
This was spectacular, open and so delicious
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10/18/2022 - 559Cheers Likes this wine: 95 Points
A hefty cannabis on the nose cuvée. I find no faults with this Chardonnay or any of Auberts’ bottles. Excellent! Well worth spending more for a bottle that amazes.
*2nd night apple makes an appearance. Cannabis char resin has retreated. Kept at room temperature.
Notes of distant tropical floral notes. Still everything perfect, no complaints. Notes of vanilla oak on the palette.
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9/5/2022 - mflesh wrote: 94 Points
A very hefty and Classic Aubert with yellow juicy fruit. Has a very complex and mineral driven complexity that already has quite a bit of character for a 2017 Chardonnay of its magnitude. Many Chardonnays are quite overpriced for what they offer but these Chardonnays are well worth their value for the complexity and opulence that they consistently deliver from year to year. A very grippy wine that goes with anything. This was served as the aperitif wine and served with tomatillo salsa and chips, rosemary asiago cheese and hummus. The complexity of this wine went well with all of this. You can easily hold this wine for a number of years. But if you decide to drink it, a pop and pour without a doubt.
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8/26/2022 - lltl2021 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Absolutely fantastic winemaking. Golden yellow color with mostly pear, green apple, some tropical flavors. Quite a lot of oak but it is harmonious. Slightly oily with citrus to support the acidity. Minarality at the very back end. Long finish. Not noticing the 15 percent alcohol at all. Simply superb.
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7/10/2022 - Barry Notes Likes this wine: 93 Points
PnP chilled w/15-90 minute glass time. Delicious as always. Confirms it's the best CA Chard out there. Oaky on the nose but not when tasted. Big, bright, fruit, mineral, full throttle but well balanced and integrated. Excellent drinking window. Always a wonderful treat. Nothing off. D/J's
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7/8/2022 - soyhead wrote:
nose - caramel, creme brulee, butterscotch, caramel corn
mouth - huge caramel corn wine. powerful and long. not bad but a bit heavy for my style. as it warms it starts to taste like a butterscotch sucker.
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6/23/2022 - jviz wrote: 93 Points
The 17 CIX had matured at bit since I last tasted it. Very rich and round on the palate. Alcohol feels quite high at 15%, and I don’t think it’s integrating all that well. I know some folks like their Aubert with a lot of age, but not me. Some of the newer bottlings (powder house) need a few years for the oak to integrate, but I personally feel that CIX is best 1-2 years after release.
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5/6/2022 - aquacongas wrote: 93 Points
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Too much oak, decanted for 3 hours, not perfect glasses and warmed a bit too warm in the beginning. After 1 hour better but typical Chardy Bardy. 93?
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4/23/2022 - markcic Likes this wine: 97 Points
I had not opened a bottle for a year and a half and this wine is still brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear, brioche and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish. The Aubert chardonnays are just amazing.
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3/8/2022 - Mortgage92 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Smooooth! Other tasting notes can tell you the aromas and flavors, but the first word in this review sums it all up! Drinking fine now, but I will wait another year for another bottle.
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1/13/2022 - Thief Likes this wine: 95 Points
Aromas of Meyer lemon vanilla and melons. Very viscous rich luscious mouthfeel. Plenty of stone fruit and melon with some citrus and enough acid and minerality to keep everything in balance. Super silky. This is CA Chardonnay at its finest.
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12/2/2021 - Snag One Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wonderful nose consisting of Meyers lemons, citrus blossoms, honeysuckle and butter. Very nice mouthfeel and layers of honeydew melon, lemon curd, butter, lemon grass and green apples. Another wonderful Chardonnay from the team at Aubert.
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11/8/2021 - Winedad53 wrote: 96 Points
One hour decant. Pale straw color, light on its feet, offering vanilla, balsa wood, fresh-cut daisies and sweet citrus notes that fan out for 45 seconds. A stunning wine, even better than 18 months ago.
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9/20/2021 - Shay.Aldriedge Likes this wine: 94 Points
I try to keep my hands off these, but they are so incredibly delicious in their youth (most, that is). This was my first CIX from 2017, and I think so far the most accessible would be Hudson and then Powder House.
My wife and I poured about half of this out in to our glasses at pop, and then double decanted the other half and came back to it an hour or so later before consuming over the following hour. In comparison to other Aubert offerings from this vintage, this was the most tart/sported the most lemon type profile. Typical Aubert lemon cream was present here along with smoked marzipan on the nose. The palate, again, was really quite tart showing grilled lemon, salted popcorn kernel, spiced golden delicious apple and honey roasted cashews. The profile here was really powerful. Obviously I opened on the young side, but this shows a lot of aging potential (compared to their Hudson). It came across as a blend of Eastside + Powder House. Good acidity, big phenolics. I’d probably hold (though the double decant did open this up a decent bit), and expect this to jump a few points easily over the next 3-5yrs.
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7/31/2021 - Amerique wrote: 95 Points
Rich, delicious citrus fruit with oak, vanillin, and pine nut flavors, excellent structure, long finish
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7/8/2021 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Similar to prior notes after a 1 hour SO; outstanding, drink or hold
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6/5/2021 - VinhoVerde Likes this wine: 93 Points
Marzipan, beeswax and smoke aromatics. Dark yellow color. Excellent fruit concentration, this wine has ripe fruit flavor with a vanillin undertaste. Rich and lush, it has a viscous texture, moderate acidity, and good length. For Aubert, this is surprisingly forward, with only moderate acid to accompany enormous fruit extract.I was surprised at how delicious it is now and would guess that will hold an additional 2 years.
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3/21/2021 - msuwine wrote: 94 Points
This wine has settled into a more integrated and open-knit groove than six months ago (9/20 - 93+ points). Light yellow in color and full in body, the wine offers aromas of lemon meringue, brioche, pear, and almond. Flavors of lime, quince, French toast, and vanilla bean, with a layered and energetic finish. This still doesn't have the balance and density of the best Aubert wines, but it's improved with time. 94+ at the moment, with upside in 2022. 15% alcohol.
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3/7/2021 - fcs@macsimsllc.com Likes this wine: 96 Points
Decanted for 2 hours.
Light gold color, very clear and sparkly. The nose was lemon fruit, some nutmeg and oak. Slight acid on the palate with lemons and toasted oak flavors. A strong, full finish, almost bold! Very Burgundian!
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12/11/2020 - RAD2626 wrote: 94 Points
Still fabulous. Double decanted as recommended by vintner. Just a true delight. Agree with all my earlier comments.
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10/21/2020 - bubbachumps wrote: 94 Points
Random bottle night (Casa Fronstin): Fantastic bottle of chardonnay could use some additional time in the bottle and it'll garner a point or 2 higher.
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10/10/2020 - Schiffy Likes this wine: 98 Points
An amazing Chardonnay with explosive citrus fruit along with pear and toast on the finish. Round, fresh and in typical Aubert style, perfectly made...as good as Chardonnay gets.
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10/3/2020 - markcic Likes this wine: 97 Points
Brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear, brioche and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish.- Similar to the bottle we drank 6 months ago. The Aubert chardonnays are just amazing.
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9/21/2020 - msuwine wrote: 93 Points
This rich and candied Chardonnay is more ambitious but less enjoyable (at least currently) than other two 2017 Auberts I've tasted to date - the Eastside and Hudson. There is a lot going on here, but the volume is too loud right now. Give this another year, and it should be just as powerful, but far more charming.
Light yellow in color and full in body, the wine offers aromas of pear, ripe apricot, brioche, vanillin (ie, more syrupy and less precise than vanilla bean, in my mind), and nutmeg. Flavors of poached pear, grilled peach, grapefruit, golden delicious apple, and almond, with a steely and viscous finish that is both acidic and creamy. 15% alcohol.
If serving now, keep the temperature low and decant at least two hours. I think this wine will get there with more bottle age, but it's not ready yet. Like some Auberts, it's not blowsy, but it's walking the line (Johnny Cash reference intended - such a great song). 93+ for now, with upside in 2021-2022.
P.S. I tasted this on the same night as a 2017 Peter Michael Ma Belle-Fille, which blew the Aubert out of the water. Side-by-side, the Peter Michael came across as more fresh, precise, and unencumbered (read: no overlay of cedar and vanilla). To be sure, both are modern wines with plenty of oak and fruit opened (perhaps) too early, but the high elevation and (dare I say) more restrained winemaking gave the PM the edge tonight. The Aubert had a little more flavor, but the Peter Michael had a lot more class.
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8/7/2020 - mflesh wrote: 94 Points
Decided to murder a bottle of young Aubert. It's Friday and I'm in the mood. These wines are always intriguing. I dare say that this has the Aubert finish that is uniquely Aubert..but then that would mean that I could always pick it out of a blind lineup and I'm not sure that I could do that. The nose seems to have some lemon, youthful peach and apricot. The pour reveals a hazy straw color. The front is round, yet not as voluptuous, medium+ bodied. Banana nut, a little tart yellow fruit, white pepper to the finish and a little more acidic on the back than I observe with the ones that have a few years of age. Could this one improve with some years of cellar time? Undoubtedly so. But no matter the characteristics that would change, this replacing that, and that replacing this, I would probably only bump this one point for tart and acidity yielding to fruit notes on the finish. So if you have these, murder away!
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7/12/2020 - RAD2626 wrote: 94 Points
Just wonderful. Minerality, fruit, taste, texture length. Tart, lemon evolving to peach and honeysuckle. Maybe my favorite of the Aubert 2017s.
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6/23/2020 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Even better after a splash, double decant for 20 min, similar to prior note but more open & opulent; outstanding, drink or hold
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6/9/2020 - wine247365 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Of the 4 Aubert Chard's I've drank, this is the only one that drew me in with a magnetic presence and is head-n-shoulders above the others....Powder House, Larry Hyde, and Sonoma Coast, which I won't buy again. I uncorked it first for 30 minutes and then experimented by pouring half the bottle in a tall decanter for another 30 minutes. Blinded, my wife and I then decided which we preferred aromatically and flavor-wise and the decanted one was clearly better. As the very last of the bottle was the best, I recommend pouring this into a tall decanter for 60-90 minutes first, so that it starts out singing! It has intensely concentrated aromas and flavors that I'm now believing is Aubert's signature style. It has complex, layered elements of orange marmalade, lemon, butterscotch, pie crust, and river stones. With air, this evolved and became increasingly intriguing. I think this will continue to a peak in a few years, but has a long life ahead. Well done!
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5/29/2020 - Winedad53 wrote: 95 Points
Lean and briny with notes of hay at first, this pale yellow, light-intensity wine opens after two hours of air into a showy, expressive wine of considerable depth and concentration, with lemon, grapefruit and honeysuckle notes on a lingering stone finish. Drinkable now, but a wine to watch and savor through 2025 or longer.
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4/10/2020 - markcic Likes this wine: 97 Points
Brilliant. A nose of white flowers and citrus. A palate of tangerine, pear and a touch of oak. A beautiful finish. Just wow. Served with Lemon Sole baked mediterranean style.
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2/14/2020 - SouthernStateofMind wrote:
Expressive nose of ripe pear, lemon curd, pineapple, vanilla and acacia. Ripe flavors of aforementioned fruit are balanced by bracing acidity and underlying minerality. Viscous on the palate leading to long lip- smacking finish. Another substantial wine from Aubert. Delicious now but with perceptible weight that will undoubtably drink well for many years to come.
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1/24/2020 - jviz wrote: 97 Points
Astoundingly good chardonnay. This wine showed great early, with burned sugar, unripe pear, yellow apple, and raw macadamia nut. Good supportive acidity and first class fruit. My nose was glued to the glass. Domestic chardonnay can’t get much better
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12/21/2019 - cablover123 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Awesome line-up for an early Christmas. Aubert Chardonnay, Kathryn Hall Cabernet and Carter Three Kings. The best trio I have ever had.
Decanted the Aubert for one hour and then put back into the bottle. Enjoyed two hours later. Bright golden in color. Pear, lemon grass and some mineral on the nose. Refreshing pear and lemon on the palate with a long crisp finish. Aubert is a rare chardonnay in which cab lovers say holy chit. Our entire group of eight were raving. Fantastic Chardonnay!
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11/30/2019 - DesMarteau Likes this wine: 96 Points
Lucious...not Napa overpowering...loam, pear, vanilla, changes weight and goes on. can age a bit...
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10/9/2019 - huevosconvino Likes this wine:
Strong oak and luscious pineapple right away, which settles down as the wine opens up. And then, wow! Strap in, you're going on a journey. This wine is a laser beam. Absolutely delicious. Like being on a Light Cycle in Tron. So fun.
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8/16/2019 - jsmorris707 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Double decanted then taken to a delicious dinner at MIA Kitchen with Bruce & Susan, creamy pear & lemon notes; delicious, drink or hold
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7/13/2019 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 98 Points
Opened in the bottle for 3-4 hours. Possibly the best of the 17 Aubert. Rich, round, crisp and fresh. Stone fruit, butterscotch, white flowers, honey, lemon, and vanilla. No sharp edges now but definitely room for the flavors to develop.
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6/22/2019 - Racer117 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Dios mio! Absolutely stunning and perfectly balanced. It's a full bodied chardonnay but it's also delicate and nuanced. Flavors galore include peach, lemon, mint/herb, vanilla (Madagascar of course), tropical fruit. I might be under scoring this with a rating of 96. Mercibecoup Herns!
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4/6/2019 - huevosconvino Likes this wine: 97 Points
Wow, this wine is unreal. There are a few threads here: Oak and other woody notes, but also creamy fruit without a malolactic profile, and then also golden raisin essence without the sugar. Takes about 10-15 minutes to start opening up even at this youthful age. This is the kind of wine you need to sit and experience over a few hours as its profile evolves in the glass. Damn, this is incredible.
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3/15/2019 - Otaku Oenophile Likes this wine: 94 Points
Their CIX pinot was the bomb(on the right day I would've given it up to a 97) and I can already tell from the nose this is way more complex than the Larry Hyde & Sons.
Double Decanted for 4 hours. Chamomile, lemongrass, flint and river stone minerality. Chalky texture for a white. Gun powder as well.
Sadly there's less density and less acidity on the palate than the Larry Hyde & Sons.
But I think the flavor profile is more interesting.
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