2016 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay

Community Tasting Notes (67) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  4/4/2024 - larrybbaldwin wrote: 93 Points

  Beautiful in a perfect drinking window

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  11/8/2023 - ADiamond Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dry, fruity, nice pale yellow. Drinking very well.

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  1/11/2023 - Odedis.Wine.reviews Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Pale yellow in color with a fruity nose.
  
  Light to medium in body with medium plus acidity.
  
  Dry and very fruity on the palate, with a nice mouthfeel.
  
  Showing limes, lemons, light earth, light wood, green and yellow apples, light vanilla, herbs, spices, pears and white pepper.
  
  This 7 year old Chardonnay is drinking very nicely now. Nicely balanced and feels much younger than it is.
  
  47 years ago, this wine won the Judgment of Paris competition, and it is still showing great quality.
  
  Spicy and entertaining. Elegant and fruity. Great by itself as a sipping wine.
  
  I've had a few vintages of this Chardonnay, and it definitely gets better with bottle time. Consistently good and delicious now.
  
  100% Chardonnay grapes were aged in French Oak barrels for 10 months.
  
  13.6% alcohol by volume.
  
  92 points.
  
  $60 (current vintage).

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  12/13/2022 - Dugis wrote: 92 Points

  Lovely integrated vanilla, oak, and butter with balanced acidity. Splendid wine

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  11/4/2022 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points

  Light gold color. Split bottle over 2.5 hours. This was excellent from the start and it just kept getting better. There's an intense nose of sea breeze, steely minerality, lemon peel, white apple and pear. The palate too is mineral driven, layers of stony minerality, tart fruits, a mix of pear, peach, and lemon; with a little lemon oil texture, very tangy, long and refreshing. Really love these.

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