2009 Atticus John Chardonnay

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 87.3 points

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  9/3/2014 - JVG wrote:

  Tasted in WSET Level 3 Class.
  
  Class notes: Clear, medium-intensity lemon color. Clean, medium-intensity, youthful nose, with herbal, green, and spicy oak aromas. Dry, medium-acid, high-alcohol, medium+ body, medium intensity palate, with flavors of vanilla, apple, and honey and a medium finish. Good, drink now, not suitable for further aging.
  
  I disagreed with the class/instructor's assessment of this wine. To me, it was either flawed or over the hill, showing reductive and cheesy notes on the nose, little fruit, and a disjointed and unbalanced palate that was both hot and tasted acidified.

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  7/16/2012 - Bacchus&Ceres Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Creamy vanilla aromas tightly intertwined with peachy, apricot, and tropical notes. Texture is full and rich showing ripe fruit notes with sweet vanilla caramel throughout finish. Oak is hot charry flavors, green grass, herbaceous spicy oak (new barrels) buttery fat wine. Overbearing wood characters

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  5/23/2011 - jorge48 wrote: 89 Points

  Tasted blind at UBS Wine tasting event (organized bt Grapes of Norwalk). In stark contrast to the Chilean Sauvigno Blanc tasted just before, this was bone dry with no sweetness or fruit at all. On the mouth, tasted almost like whiskey or some such hard liquor. Went quite well with crakers and cheese, though, underlining the point that some wines are meant as an accompaniement to food. Guessed erroneously it must have been from Italy. As it turned out, this was the Californian Chardonnay...

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