2011 Bonterra Vineyards Chardonnay

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 86.4 points

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  4/6/2015 - Markus IWC wrote: 87 Points

  Stor fat karaktär, ek, vanilj. Urtypen för en ekad amerikansk chardonnay. Riktigt trevlig om man gillar kategorin.

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  12/30/2013 - Winegirl1959 Likes this wine: 89 Points

  A well balanced Chardonnay. Great on its own or with food. Plus it's organic which is a real plus.

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  7/25/2013 - kanjimoti wrote: 87 Points

  I needed a Chardonnay for a chicken recipe and had read a favorable review of the Bonterra. I must say, for $10, this a respectable wine with pleasant green apple aromas, and a nice balance of minerality and whisper of oak. Medium bodied with a finish that was clean and made me think there was actually some done in the vineyard; not just "throw it all in and we'll mask it with massive amounts of oak". I got a flash of kiwi on the finish as well. Decent wines like this help keep it all in perspective for me. Can't drink white Burgundy all the time. Which reminds me, this was much better than the Macon Verze from Leflaive for which I paid three times as much. The Bonterra is made with organic grapes at 13.5%, says so right on the label.

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  4/22/2013 - chablis28 wrote: 87 Points

  For $10 this totally works as an everyday Chardonnay with; balance, nice fruit and a sense of minerality.

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  4/11/2013 - jens.thogersen Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Colour: there is some Green to the lemonyellow colour.
  
  Aroma: herbs, oak, leather, butter, some floral notes, butter. There is a bit of a chewinggum smell to it.
  
  Taste: predominant oak high in acidity

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