1987 Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  2/12/2023 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Tasted from a pristinely-cellared magnum at a walk-around Super Bowl party, this 36-year-old California Chardonnay was the wine of the night. Medium-to-deep golden in color, it offers an intense and complex bouquet of stone fruits, toasted marshmallows, lemon meringue, honey and spiced vanilla. Medium-bodied and with impressive freshness, it delivers flavors mirroring the nose, adding a complimentary note of minerality that seals the deal. The fruit, acid, oak and alcohol (13%) are all working in unison here, creating an exquisite tasting experience that accelerates on the dense mid-palate and lengthy finish. At this age, there are only good bottles...not necessarily "good wines." This particular magnum was nothing short of ethereal. Comparable magnums will easily provide immense pleasure throughout the remainder of this decade, possibly beyond. Drink now-2030.

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  4/1/2022 - andtheodor wrote: flawed

  While my previous bottle just soared with youth and complexity this bottle had a wet, spongy, blueish cork and this wine is pushed into the bruised apple/hazelnut territory and feels lifeless in the mouth.

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  3/12/2021 - andtheodor wrote: 94 Points

  Excellent fill, color, cork. Aromas of popcorn, roasted marshmallow, coconut sugar, and lemon. Power here derived neither from concentration or manipulation, it's just full of life, radiating energy like it's own little golden sun shining in the glass. Hard to imagine better Santa Cruz Chardonnay.

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  3/5/2021 - coremill wrote: 88 Points

  Very mature, but holding on and enjoyable if you like that sort of thing, which I do. Integrated oaky vanilla and spice, some yellow apple fruit, a pretty hazelnut patina. Acidity makes it a bit short and this is probably past its prime but it's a very different presentation from much younger premoxed wines.

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  1/27/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Sat, 01/27/18, $2 Tasting + 3 Shared Bottles (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): A heartfelt THANK you to those who made this tasting experience possible! :)
  
  From a magnum
  
  N: Intense butterscotch, lemons WAY underneath?
  
  P: LM body; AMAZING oak/frt NICELY balanced by acidity as it evolves into a LONG (albeit somewhat faint) finish that, nonetheless, retains its acidity ALL the way through! The front-P & most of the finish on this are impeccable, TOTALLY belying its age! My EXC+/Exceptional- based upon its longevity.

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