1999 Marcassin Chardonnay Marcassin Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  3/14/2014 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very clean and surreal for its age.

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  12/18/2010 - fclarity wrote: 92 Points

  I am on the mailing list so this wine was in perfect condition. It had a light yellow center and clear rims. The moderate intensity nose displayed citrus, white flowers, and some noticable oak. In the mouth it was ripe, rich and had great length. While impressive, this wine was a bit too oaky and a touch hot for my taste. I don't see it outgrowing the oak but you never know. I certainly don't see an RP-98 but maybe these are better very young?

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  2/6/2010 - Mrbuzz wrote: 100 Points

  3 years ago, I rated this wine 99pts, an almost perfect white for me, and probably the best white I've ever had. Not into Burgundy at the time....I wanted to try it again, after having well over 100 bottles of White Burgundy's in the last year, of which having an obsessed palate for now. Well.......this is now a perfect wine for me! I drank it like I do Burgs, around cellar temp, and it was the key for that last point. Still golden cloudy, rich, smooth, and LOADED with honey/lemons/minerals. Still quite youthful with citrus acidity, and I pick out more minerals now, since having many Burgs......the complexity of the creme brulee crust, lemon oil, tobacco spice, smoked hazelnuts are so exotic and out of this World. And I love chalky/dusty spice in whites, and this has tons of it. Never had a Montrachet....but this has to be close? What a wine!!!

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  2/5/2010 - sjwshiraz wrote:

  Very weighty. On the palate seemingly as much marsanne as chardonnay. Oily, with exotic white fruits, almonds and marzipan. Very similar to a Cuvee to l'Oree Hermitage '04 drunk earlier in the week, just not as good as it lacks the precision and minerality. Not quite the Niellon/ Coche blend that RP extolls.

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  1/1/2010 - jeff nowak wrote: 95 Points

  14.5% alcohol. recently tasted/shared, but tonight we had an opportunity to drink this wine, and follow it in the glass, which proved to be fun and interesting. opened a little too cold. quite cloudy, ala aubert. coming to optimum temperature, and after an hour saw this wine emerge, expand, and perform at the highest level. not a slam on the usual suspects, but this wine was less plump in the midpalate, displaying a linear tension i don't usually see in domestic chard. two hours after opening, it was still evolving, taking on weight in the fruit department. i would still classify the 96 and 98 vintages ahead of this, but not by much.

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