With: weekday chicken and Chanterelle mushrooms in Chardonnay/shallot sauce. Look: deep yellow. Sniff: peach and pineapple. Taste: dry, medium body, touch of apple and pare, good acid balance, touch of oak. Nice drinking wine, but the oak starts dominating after a while - loosing some of the balance.
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Selected in a tasting last autumn as an everyday Chardonnay of depth. Typical Californian vanilla oak and exotic fruit profile which, while not having anything like the mass and concentration of its more illustrious (and much more expensive) compatriots is a perfect go-to for appropriate everyday dinner food - in this case lemon sole etc. For drinking by the end of decade.
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1/18/2020 - TRguy Likes this wine: 89 Points
Vanilla, coconut, oak on the nose. Flavors of licorice, vanilla, pear, light oak with a fairly long finish. Very nice.
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9/9/2018 - J. Collier wrote: 89 Points
Would buy again apples, oak are what stand out. No butteriness.
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4/4/2018 - bjschmitt wrote: 87 Points
With: weekday chicken and Chanterelle mushrooms in Chardonnay/shallot sauce.
Look: deep yellow.
Sniff: peach and pineapple.
Taste: dry, medium body, touch of apple and pare, good acid balance, touch of oak. Nice drinking wine, but the oak starts dominating after a while - loosing some of the balance.
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2/8/2018 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 87 Points
Selected in a tasting last autumn as an everyday Chardonnay of depth. Typical Californian vanilla oak and exotic fruit profile which, while not having anything like the mass and concentration of its more illustrious (and much more expensive) compatriots is a perfect go-to for appropriate everyday dinner food - in this case lemon sole etc.
For drinking by the end of decade.
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1/21/2018 - vesuvius Likes this wine: 88 Points
Smooth with a little body. No butteriness, but a tinge of dried apricot. Medium finish. Moderate acidity.
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