2015 Arnot-Roberts Chardonnay Trout Gulch Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (79) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  9/11/2023 - wgmccallum Likes this wine: 94 Points

  From memory, sophisticated balance of citrus and tropical fruits, utterly delicious melding of honey and acids on the palate. A lovely wine.

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  7/24/2023 - dsamuel Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Bright lemon color
  Medium plus aromas - quite reductive at first with rubber aromas but eventually blowing off with a crisp apple and a mind-blowing mineral/ saline aroma
  Medium plus bodied with palate of bright yellow apple and salinity - really fruit driven palate with that acid/fruit Chardonnay core - really a contrast to the nose
  Medium plus acidity and medium alcohol with. minimal phenolics
  Moderate length led by fruit and acid
  Last of six bottles - Hadn't noted any reductive qualities previously but they are there in this bottle - my previous notes had even mentioned a bruised apple character which is not here at all - possibly the best bottle of the lot!
  Drinking very well now but based on this bottle there's probably years to go

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  7/23/2023 - S.Wayne Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Blind tasting
  Lemon with gold reflections.
  Aromatics medium +. Reductive upon opening with a pungent rubber note that slowing fades to matchstick and later buttered popcorn. Possibly some pear underneath all of this
  Palate has a medium + body, rounded mouthfeel. Acid medium +. No phenolics. Alcohol medium +. Baked yellow apple, intense minerality with some of the above matchstick.
  Finish has a medium + length. Balanced
  Dry glass notes of matchstick
  I guessed Santa Barbara Chardonnay
  In reviewed by 3 prior tasting notes, this is the first that discussed reduction. Regardless, still a beautiful and different wine.
  Drink now based upon my other notes, but this bottle still has years given reduction.

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  7/5/2023 - UofM Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Per usual, this is my type of wine. My wife would disagree. Pale gold color with nice acidity but not too much. All citrus, saline and maybe yellow apple as other have commented. Lovely.

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  5/16/2023 - slanum wrote:

  Two days ago a bottle of the Watson Ranch (same vintage) left me pretty underwhelmed; this Trout Gulch is another story entirely. It's peculiarly neon yellow in color (comparatively anyway) with an almost pungent, saline bite to the aromas that really whets the taste buds. It's there on the palate too, along with super bright citrus and a slight sulfurous, matchstick-like quality. Very nice, and the 13.5 % alc. still surprises me, but it's nowhere in evidence.

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