2016 Penfolds Chardonnay Max's

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  5/28/2021 - Moloko Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Had a couple of these now, well nice structured chardy with lemony front and a butterscotch finish. Very impressed, bought some 18 now.

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  8/25/2020 - Jason Wu wrote: 87 Points

  Appearance: medium lemon
  Nose: medium intensity; aromas of green apple, grapefruit, lemon, lime, creamy, toast, pastry. It’s developing.
  Palate: dry, medium plus acidity, medium alcohol, medium body, medium flavour intensity. Flavours align with nose. The finish is medium.
  Overall, it’s a good wine. Drink now, not suitable for further ageing.
  The wine has good balance between its acidity and citrus and green fruits of apple, grapefruit and lemon. There’s some secondary characters of pastry and cream, and it has developed some tertiary toasty notes. All of these offer decent complexity to make it better than an acceptable level wine. Although it presents some typicity of a restrained style chardy from Adelaide Hill, it doesn’t have enough flavour concentration or length to be a very good wine. The fruit flavours are not well defined and feel a little watery. It’s enjoyable to drink now but there isn’t much space for improvement from further cellaring.

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  5/27/2019 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 91 Points

  柠檬黄 creamy oak nutty stone fruit high acidity almond 余味中长

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  6/23/2018 - chatters wrote:

  Qantas Winter Wine Festival (Town Hall, Sydney): stone fruit, peach, butter, toast, slight nuts…palate similar, a little flabby and a touch of bitterness on the finish

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  12/26/2017 - LindsayM Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Colour pale straw lemon with green hues. Bright and brilliant in the glass 15/15
  Nose medium intensity of stone fruits, nectarines white peach and citrus - grapefruit ,toasty oak good purity and harmony 27/30
  Palate Good intensity, purity , and balance lovely fruit and slight nuttiness, great purity and harmony again - the finish is long and dry with a lick of mineral acidity 41/44
  Overall I’ve only had this a couple of times and great value and quality from the Penfolds stable 9/11

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