2010 Morlet Family Vineyards Chardonnay Ma Douce

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  9/4/2023 - kabert Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Not as memorable as a bottle about 8 months ago, this was still excellent and still showed a remarkable paucity of aged flavors. This bottle was more minerally and the fruits were more along lines of lemon and Granny Smith apple.. I didn’t detect any of the tropical notes evident in the prior bottle.

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  3/4/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 91 Points

  A Margaux at Margaux's Table (Margaux's Table, White Bear Lake, MN): Light gold plus color. Drank a glass over an hour. The nose shows nice minerality and stone fruits, with a good dose of vanilla. But it is the palate where the vanilla becomes more intrusive and less complimentary; vanilla bean, rich and sumptuous, full bodied, Meyer lemon, tangerine, tangy, good length and viscosity. Very good, and much better than a bottle recently.

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  1/22/2023 - galewskj wrote: 89 Points

  Dinner at Irene's: More mature than the 2010 Rhys alpine chardonnay that it followed. Butterscotch, surprisingly tart, waxy, hints of being corked but I decided that there was just some funk to it.

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  1/21/2023 - rocknroller wrote:

  A Mix at Irene's (Irene's House, St. Paul): Deep golden color. Followed a glass for 90 minutes. Showing some oxidative notes, funky, butterscotch, lemon, lemon pledge, wood spice and alcohol coming through across the palate. IMO this was flawed, at the least over the hill, but recent notes make me think this was either oxidized or poorly stored. Score reserved.

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  1/12/2023 - kabert Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wow, this was a revelation: a 2010 California chardonnay that, in January 2023, showed no tertiary/aged characteristics at all! A serious and spicy beam of acidity, this started out with tropical notes but soon shifted, with air, to apple and tart pear notes. Dynamite from start to finish (over the course of two days). Over the last couple years I’ve had some Rivers-Marie chardonnay from 2010 (and the late 2000s) that too was delicious but it still showed some degree of aged characteristics. It’s only been old vines Chablis that I’ve had, at 10+ years of age (including 2010), that has been a similar experience to this bottle of 2010 Morlet Ma Douce. Some special juice!

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