2018 Bêcheur Chardonnay

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 72 points

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  11/16/2023 - Mtpisgah wrote:

  Good for the price.

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  11/24/2020 - dougie Likes this wine:

  Became much better with time and air. A bit of age will help a lot. Very nice after 5 hours.

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  4/26/2020 - floydtp wrote:

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  Citrus (lemon and grapefruit), apple, almond, medium weight with the balance toward acidity rather than the lush/tropical/buttery California Chardonnay paradigm. I wrote this note at the time of bottling yet this is a wine that deserves a year in the cellar before proper consideration.
  
  13.7% Alc, 6.3 TA, 3.6 pH
  Bottled on February 28 2020
  126 cases produced
  
  I first tasted this wine in early February from a puncheon in a friend’s cellar. We also thieved glasses from the other barrels in the lot and I could see why this one got kicked out of the blend. The barrel next to it had the wonderful beguiling gunpowder/flint of Chablis while this one, although fine and proper, would only have attenuated the complexity. In the tough-luck way of musical chairs, the winery prefers to bottle only about 300 cases which relegated this puncheon and three 228L barrels to an innocuous tank of Anderson Valley appellation-blend Chardonnay. We’re not going to let that happen.
  
  The vineyard was planted in 1991 and the Pinot and Chardonnay sourced here are perennial single-vineyard designates for several wineries. This particular block is planted with Wente which often has seedless ‘chick’ berries mixed with fat ‘hens’. Harvest was on Oct 3 at 22.3 Brix. 2018 is regarded as super high quality while also a generous year. The abundance of the vintage is what we have to be thankful for since more fruit was harvested than the winery needed.

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  4/24/2020 - Peter Kleban Likes this wine:

  ***
  
  C: very light yellow
  N: inviting
  P: Opens very subtle, with a slight creaminess. Not as acid as other Terriens I've had, and the acidity which is there is very well integrated. Note of lemon. I could list more flavors, but somehow that misses the point. This wine is elegant, with a veiled power, very sophisticated, un vin de haute qualité. One of the best Chards I've had. Thank you, Michael!
  
  FWIW, bottle # 2241
  
  4/28/20:
  Second bottle. Great!
  7/12/20:
  Consistent.
  4/8/21:
  So, so good. It only grows on you.
  6/13/21:
  Yup!
  8/31/21:
  Last bottle it seems. Took about 20 min to open up. But then it just sang. Held up well in fridge with N2 (for a week? I forget)

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  4/23/2020 - Mtpisgah Likes this wine:

  Nice and crisp. Much better than I had expected and a great QPR for $15 I paid. Not so great at the current $45.

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