2005 Paul Hobbs Chardonnay Cuvée Agustina Richard Dinner Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  3/26/2022 - UpfromtheCellar wrote: 92 Points

  Intense. Still laser focused but holding together nicely. Powerful. Fruit and oak balance knitted tightly. Wonderful stuff. Probably not many bottles still out there but if you have cellared it carefully you will be rewarded.
  
  Total travesty that PH wasn't included in the recent "The California List" launched by some of the UK's leading wine influencers, especially when you consider many of the wineries that were included.....

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  2/23/2009 - ebrown35 wrote: 92 Points

  OK, I admit I was expecting this to be over-the top (based on the 2005 PH Ulises Valdez Chard I had a year or so ago) but it wasn't at all, in fact quite nice. Color was a golden straw, beautiful nose butterscotch, citrus fruit, & ocean air. The palate was full of the requisite lemon, pineapple flavors with a nice acid backbone, surprising streak of minerality and wonderful finish. This wine was leaner and much more food friendly than I was expecting.

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  9/6/2008 - NotNYC wrote: 90 Points

  Full bodied without being over the top. Balanced CA chard. Bright fruit has mellowed some, making this contemplative. Not going to jump out and grab the unsuspecting as a truly great wine.

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  7/26/2008 - enosnob wrote: 94 Points

  7/25/2008: beautiful dark yellow brilliant color; the nose is lemon, organge and mango with some smokiness. This is a full bodied, well balance wine with good acidity, light integrated oak, a very luscious wine, with a long long finish with some minerality and stone fruit flavors. This is a delicious wine that my Francophile friends will give knee jerk sneers of too big, completely missing the point that it tastes great.

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  7/20/2008 - eSchrag wrote: 90 Points

  Much better than the first bottle, which was just a big oaky butter bomb. The oak has better integrated into the wine allowing a nice mineral acidity to emerge. Still has a ton of fruit and a long finish. A big chardonnay that is now more balanced.

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