2011 Ocean Eight Chardonnay Verve

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  9/9/2015 - Will Devize wrote: 91 Points

  Intense and focussed nose which has beautifully nuanced grapefruit and lime against a chalky background. Serious stuff. Palate has lovely purity and great weight with a zingy, persistent finish. High class cool climate chardonnay which is as elegant as it is potent.

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  6/20/2015 - ruth3 wrote:

  struck match on the nose, flinty, bright acid, lemon and lime. long persistent and bracing, rather special.

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  6/10/2015 - gtilley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This is excellent. Very flinty, struck match characters on the nose. Understated, well balanced. An actually distinctive wine, not just a well made new world chardonnay.

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  4/17/2015 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points

  Pale straw. Fresh nose, quite light and clean with a touch of oatmeal. Tangy lime fruit opening up to show a lovely finely chalky minerality on the palate. Clean, elegant and really quite engaging in a cool climate style. This is not a thin and screechy wine though, there's lots of depth and subtle complexity and a surprising weight/density through the mid-palate. Long and persistent. ****

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  4/9/2014 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

  n - citrussy, some elegant oak, very fresh
  very dry, mineral
  serious stuff, very discreet oak
  tastes very classy
  a little tight at the moment but still really good

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