2018 DeLille Cellars Chaleur Estate Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (88) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  4/9/2024 - goodvitis.com Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The nose is quite bright, featuring aromas of buttered country white bread, flint, Key Lime pie, honey dew, and yuzu. Full bodied, it has significant mineral-driven acid that balances a nice fleshy, broad mouthfeel. The acid leads with slate and flint that transitions into flavors of yuzu, tangerine, salted kettle corn, oyster shell, and banana peel. Less primary than when I had this a number of years ago, the acid and minerality are more pronounced as the baby fat has been shed. This comes into balance real nicely with two hours of air. I wouldn’t call it better or worse, just different. This will have another couple of years left before it begins to decline, I believe. Recommend decanting.

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  2/20/2024 - fitchbuck Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Over a week, this held up solid. Probably WA's best white.

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  2/14/2024 - hiker_guy Likes this wine:

  1.5 years since my last one
  
  Nose still shows lots of vanilla oak notes. There is nice grassy and tropical notes that are tending toward fresh ripe pineapple.
  Palate is fresh, dominated by the oak still, good acidity, decent finish.
  This wine may evolve eventually but this was my last bottle.

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  11/4/2023 - Rrhodez Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Was much better the second day. Needs to breathe. Delicious.

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  10/30/2023 - mpsocal Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Nice stuff, a little apple and citrus.

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