2011 Greywacke Chardonnay

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  2/6/2018 - Cabernetdialectic Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This Chard from 2011 is still going strong. Wild, visceral nose of lemon curd and rind, curry spices, buttered toast, wet chalk, astringent green fruit (gooseberries and lime leaves), grass and cilantro, and a little kerosene-laced Indian mango. Prickly and turbulent yet cohesive. Palate is an initial squirt of lemon juice, time apparently doing little to mollify these fierce acids, followed by a broad, expansive array of green and yellow pears both oriental and occidental, cider apples, raw cashews, tallow, tangerine peel/kumquat, musk, Epsom salts, maybe a hint of golden raisin. Finish loops back to sour candy and underripe green fruit territory, salt on the rim of a margarita glass, and lasts for an eternity. This beast is glamorous yet rustic, agile yet puissant, all at the same time. Has a potentially polarizing thiol character (“musk” in polite company, “cat pee” for us plebs), which I think integrates well with the pome fruit, minerals, and marzipan/almond to yield a blockbuster.

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  8/8/2015 - preid wrote: 89 Points

  Veldig god vin. Flott lukt og ettersmak.

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  5/19/2015 - jeffm_fla Does not like this wine: 81 Points

  Funky nose of roadkill skunk. Palate has some mineral and a bit of pineapple juice, but I couldn't get past the skunk. Some may like the "earthiness"...

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  5/13/2015 - Papies wrote: 91 Points

  A pretty nice surprise.
  The nose points straight to new world chardonnay. Oaky notes which quickly turn to apple, ripe apple. light citrus. Rich yet balanced and well made. Good mineral side to it too and a hint of smoke. Very nice. 91 and drinks very well now.

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  1/21/2015 - stayhappy21 wrote: 86 Points

  Drank this today at Imperial Treasure Nan Bei with a friend from the wine trade.
  
  Pale yellow in colour, with a funky, pungent nose upon opening. Barnyard notes infused with wet rocks and minerals on the nose.
  
  On the palate there is a combination old world (stoney, earthy) and new world (grapefruit, red and green apples and some flint) notes with a tinge of bitterness.
  
  A very different style from the old world (Burgundy) and new world (US, Australia) Chardonnays.

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