2012 Penfolds Chardonnay Thomas Hyland

Community Tasting Notes (3) Median Score: 88 points

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  6/18/2017 - Missus T Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Outstanding, beautifully balanced. Wish I'd bought a case.
  
  Lovely gentle gold tinged color.
  
  Nose of apple and a hint of something marginally tropical like kumquat or kiwi. Vaguely floral, like an alang-alang, swear to God, though not fighting for attention. Even the nose was balanced.
  
  Tasting was just lovely... only the mildest touch of Chardonnay butterfat and neither a cloying syrupy aspect or an acidic finish.
  In between spoonfuls of my homemade tomato soup, this wine absolutely exploded with a melange of fruity flavors of kumquat, quince, and a touch of mango. This was a good pairing.
  
  I also consumed a fresh fish curry (red, not green paste), garnished with stir fried whole almonds, and buttery stir fried sugar peas and green beans. Good pairing because I opted out of Mr T's mango chutney (turns out I'm allergic) but I got a good dose of mango in the wine, and that was lovely.
  
  I have no idea how a chardonnay can be this flavorful and have no cloying or overly buttery angle. It had such a clean finish, too.

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  12/31/2016 - rossso wrote: 88 Points

  Bright green/gold in colour. Nose clean but somewhat subdued. Acid dominates the palate, apples and some toasty flavours. Not unpleasant but not special either. Won't buy more.

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  10/14/2014 - thunberg wrote: 82 Points

  @Munskänkarna 2-betyg utbildning
  A bit artificial, grease on the nose. Quite nice acid, nutty.

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