This wine is gorgeous. Deep gold color with pronounced aroma intensity. Many layers of aroma including highlights of lemon, lemon curd, melon, pineapple, spice, vanilla and oak. On the palate, similar flavor profile with incredible creamy and full body. This wine still has a strong acid backbone and pronounced fruit flavors which suggests further aging is advisable. Glad I still have some more bottles - but this is drinking beautifully now.
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Decanted for about 45 minutes. This wine is perfect right now. Great lemon, tropical and spice aromas. Similar flavors on palate, with the wine still having great acidity and minerality. Really delicious!
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Immediately offers massive minerality. Wet pavement, chalkboard, river rocks etc. Holding up great - putting on some nice golden color, a little weight in the mid palate. A truly remarkable Chardonnay
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My last bottle; consistent notes with prior two. Clearly, this is fading out, as the finish has shortened and has too much bitter wood. Still, I used some in a coconut shellfish stock mussel broth, and had the rest with the mussels, and it was swell. Drink up.
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Has held up fairly well: the nose, particularly, is beautiful with toasty pretzels, butter almond ice cream, sage and clean linen. Well made, no off notes, simply creamy (lactic), and delicious, finishing notes of almond butter and kiwi fruits, butterscotch toffee as it warms. I’ll hold my last bottle for another year and see what happens. Enjoyed it tonight with shrimp parmesan and garlicky swiss chard.
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Aroma of brazil nuts and cashews, pine needles. Rich and fleshy, but missing the acidity to create real structure. Ripe pear, peach skins, and vanilla oak. Delicious, straightforward, if not complex or important. This worked beautifully with a simple grilled veal chop, and swordfish. Regrettably overpriced by $30.
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12.8% alc., 263 cases, $75. 100% Gran Moraine Vineyard planted in 2005 in Willakenzie soils. Unfined and unfiltered. · Moderately light golden yellow color and clear in the glass. Inviting aromas of lemon, pear, honey and roasted nuts. Demure, clean and bright, with juicy flavors of lemon, white peach and vanilla. Quite focused and harmonious, with well integrated acidity and a pleasingly succulent citrus-fueled finish.
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4/2/2022 - bayareadodgerfan Likes this wine: 95 Points
This wine is gorgeous. Deep gold color with pronounced aroma intensity. Many layers of aroma including highlights of lemon, lemon curd, melon, pineapple, spice, vanilla and oak. On the palate, similar flavor profile with incredible creamy and full body. This wine still has a strong acid backbone and pronounced fruit flavors which suggests further aging is advisable. Glad I still have some more bottles - but this is drinking beautifully now.
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12/25/2021 - bayareadodgerfan Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted for about 45 minutes. This wine is perfect right now. Great lemon, tropical and spice aromas. Similar flavors on palate, with the wine still having great acidity and minerality. Really delicious!
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12/4/2021 - Jack Cranley Likes this wine: 93 Points
Tasted at the winery December 2021. Spectacular.
Immediately offers massive minerality. Wet pavement, chalkboard, river rocks etc.
Holding up great - putting on some nice golden color, a little weight in the mid palate. A truly remarkable Chardonnay
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2/14/2021 - GregBates Likes this wine:
Yummy
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10/13/2020 - GregBates Likes this wine: 91 Points
Well aged, delicious, with roasted chicken, raclette roasted potatoes, heaven
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5/24/2020 - OenoEd wrote: 90 Points
My last bottle; consistent notes with prior two. Clearly, this is fading out, as the finish has shortened and has too much bitter wood. Still, I used some in a coconut shellfish stock mussel broth, and had the rest with the mussels, and it was swell. Drink up.
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6/17/2019 - OenoEd Likes this wine: 91 Points
Has held up fairly well: the nose, particularly, is beautiful with toasty pretzels, butter almond ice cream, sage and clean linen. Well made, no off notes, simply creamy (lactic), and delicious, finishing notes of almond butter and kiwi fruits, butterscotch toffee as
it warms. I’ll hold my last bottle for another year and see what happens. Enjoyed it tonight with shrimp parmesan and garlicky swiss chard.
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11/24/2017 - OenoEd Likes this wine: 91 Points
Aroma of brazil nuts and cashews, pine needles. Rich and fleshy, but missing the acidity to create real structure. Ripe pear, peach skins, and vanilla oak. Delicious, straightforward, if not complex or important. This worked beautifully with a simple grilled veal chop, and swordfish. Regrettably overpriced by $30.
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5/17/2017 - lisavanwagner Likes this wine: 92 Points
12.8% alc., 263 cases, $75. 100% Gran Moraine Vineyard planted in 2005 in Willakenzie soils. Unfined and unfiltered. · Moderately light golden yellow color and clear in the glass. Inviting aromas of lemon, pear, honey and roasted nuts. Demure, clean and bright, with juicy flavors of lemon, white peach and vanilla. Quite focused and harmonious, with well integrated acidity and a pleasingly succulent citrus-fueled finish.
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