2013 Loring Wine Company Chardonnay Sierra Mar Vineyard

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  3/17/2018 - timewithwine wrote:

  Just as it was a few weeks back: delicious! With scallops in cream and sun-dried tomato sauce.

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  3/10/2018 - timewithwine wrote:

  What’s not to love about a wine that is the color of mid-morning summer sun and delivers a nose of buttered popcorn and coconut. Plenty of golden apple pie with baking spices and toasted coconut along with a splash of vanilla and lemon cream. A “bigly” full bodied Chardonnay just as you would expect from Brian. Incredible balance for such a big wine. 14.3% alc. With home-made sweet potato ravioli with PM while home. Recommended.

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  2/17/2018 - timewithwine wrote:

  What’s not to love about a wine that is the color of mid-morning summer sun and delivers a nose of buttered popcorn and coconut. Plenty of golden apple pie with baking spices along with a splash of vanilla and lemon cream. A “bigly” full bodied Chardonnay just as you would expect from Brian. Incredible balance for such a big wine. 14.3% alc. With cheeses of St. Angel, Estomoniere, a truffled cheese and Haberston and crusty bread and oysters with the Schreibers and Fords. Recommended.

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  7/7/2017 - timewithwine wrote:

  The color of this wine continues to evolve and now is the deep gold of a mid-morning summer sun. The nose is ... is buttered popcorn! ... and golden apple pie with pineapple, caramel, vanilla and lemon cream. This vintage seems more balanced than the 2012 - no heat at all. A full bodied, full throttled Chardonnay, but with plenty of acidity to rein in the ripeness of the fruit. The bigness of the wine becomes a finish of candied lemon zest, tangerine and almond. 14.3% alc. With assorted double and triple creamed cheeses. Recommended.

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  5/3/2015 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  Pretty easy drinking at this stage, with a dollop of cinnamon-laced oak that fans out across the palate of the wine. Fair amount of glycerine too. Both of these attributes speak to what I would associate to Brian's style of chardonnay, and I respect the fact that he makes this style and never apologizes for it either! Finishes with some lemon peel/lemon brulee, giving the wine some backbone. Overall, this is a more approachable, fruit/wood centric style.

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