After being highly critical of the heavy-handed use of oak at this place in ‘09 (another warmer vintage) figured I’d try my last bottle of this one. Deep golden color; pungent aldehyde and dessert wine nose; firm acid and oakiness. Sad.
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Extraordinarily wild nose of spectacular spiced apple, just enough smokey oak to not put me over the edge (I despise over-oaking Chardonnay), grilled meats and flowers; equally complex on the palate with great concentration and spine. None of the annoying flabbiness and overripe premature aging so common to this vintage. A really great wine!
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4/25/2021 - discoverwine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Absolutely brilliant at this ripe age.
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3/5/2018 - jmoore431 wrote: flawed
After being highly critical of the heavy-handed use of oak at this place in ‘09 (another warmer vintage) figured I’d try my last bottle of this one. Deep golden color; pungent aldehyde and dessert wine nose; firm acid and oakiness. Sad.
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9/9/2016 - jmoore431 wrote: 91 Points
Another bottle: more golden colored; more maturity and ripeness evident, more round on palate though still quite good. Not as good as the last one.
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8/22/2016 - jmoore431 wrote: 93 Points
Extraordinarily wild nose of spectacular spiced apple, just enough smokey oak to not put me over the edge (I despise over-oaking Chardonnay), grilled meats and flowers; equally complex on the palate with great concentration and spine. None of the annoying flabbiness and overripe premature aging so common to this vintage. A really great wine!
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