2017 Stratus White

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 90 points

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  5/26/2023 - JohnSh wrote: 87 Points

  This didn’t quite do it for me. An interesting and unusual white blend - not a Rhone blend - from a winery who focus on blending, whose top wines are blends. The Chardonnay was there providing depth, but the Sauvignon blanc fought witht it and didn’t create a harmonic whole. The oak was there, but again didn’t quite fit with the higher acid varieties. Interesting, but not quite cohesive (B/B+).

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  1/9/2022 - MarkSegal Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Good acid, Lots of pineapple, butter, oily rich mouthfeel

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  1/15/2021 - Alykhan V Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A white Rhone blend
  Aromas of wax, yellow orchard fruit, peach, candied lemon peel, smoke, white flowers. Also bruised yellow apples — made made in a somewhat oxidative style
  Medium bodied with a rich texture
  Excellent length
  Medium to medium+ acidity (I always worry with white rhone blends that they’ll be flabby and hot, and this was neither)
  A very good wine best drunk over the next 5-7 years

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  12/31/2020 - Brent25 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Clear medium gold; clean medium nose of grapefruit, blossoms, lemon, apple and brioche; dry; high acidity; medium alcohol; full body with oily mouthfeel; medium plus flavour intensity; palate is slightly tarter with ripe lemons and grapefruit dominating; long finish; drink now or in 5 years; Rhone meets new oak - excellent wine

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