2013 Savage Grace Wines Chardonnay Celilo Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  3/4/2021 - Sanfoan Likes this wine:

  Opened about three hours before drinking to give it some air (slow-ox for three hours). In the glass, medium viscosity with a pale straw color. On the nose, initially, this was quite closed and took quite a while to open up. Once it did, I got some peaches/stone fruit, some honey, some flintiness, a touch of oxidation (probably normal at this point - this was kept in perfect storage since release) but in a good way, and some almond powder. On the palate, the wine initially felt a tad hot, high acidity, lots of honey (not sweetness just honey taste), flintiness, chalkiness, stone fruits, passion fruit, and some ripe red apples. There's a "sea-spray" or saltiness to this wine. Overall, very good and evolved chardonnay that has evolved very nicely compared to the last time I had this. I would drink up this feels like a peak.
  
  Additional note: there is a bit of a grassiness to this wine that sometimes brings me in a Sauvignon Blanc direction. Letting the wine warm up a bit and letting it breathe, that grassiness goes away.

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  10/18/2018 - estiles Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Light oak, notes of passion fruit and honey, quite nice overall.

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  1/24/2018 - Arthur4wine wrote: 91 Points

  As Borat would say, "Very nice."

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  1/9/2018 - EMichels wrote: 90 Points

  (Old note - tasting date not accurate) Crisp; Green apple; Nice tart finish

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  1/7/2018 - EMichels wrote: 91 Points

  (Old notes - tasting date not correct) Deep fresh fruit; Nice acid; Solid finish; Beautiful, almost tropical, but with richness

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