2004 Robert Mondavi Winery Fumé Blanc To-Kalon I Block

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  10/1/2018 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Tremendously fresh bottle! Showing much better than the 99 last had...wonderful pitted orchard fruits with that banana skin waxiness, tropical flare...screamin with zesty lemon/lime/grapefruit acidity...and the 73yr old vines showing ALL the hard struggle of age with just amazing chalky, salty, flinty, tensioned energized minerality. The perfect interplay of vibrant ripe fruit and salinity. Pretty florals, smoked lemon grass...little aged honey butter, slight vanilla oak spice...length, persistence, and amazement.

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  8/4/2012 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points

  Smoky minerality with seaspray. Complex sb with terroir expressions of granite and wet pebbles. Pristine fruits , clean yet layered with a satisfying mouthfilling aura. Delicious sb. Really backward , rustic expression.

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  11/30/2008 - Thralow wrote: 92 Points

  Brought this bottle to Bleu Provence in Naples. shared it with Clement the sommelier. He was great by both complimenting the wine and pointing out that he prefers more mineraliaty. He felt the oak and butter were too strong. A famous French reaction to a California white, right? Anyhow it was great to taste it with him because we had always considered this a much less buttery wine (we are used to the Napa Chardonnays so a Fume Blanc is toned down for us.) By the way, the wine list at Bleu Provence is stunning... about eight different versions of just Domaine Serene Pinot Noir. Three different Turley... and this is a French Restaurant. Thousands of bottles. We won't bring a wine next time. Clemente can pick us one. John our waiter was excellent too.

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  8/7/2007 - Thralow wrote: 93 Points

  The winner of our Sunday night blind tasting.

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