2018 Concha y Toro Chardonnay Marqués de Casa Concha

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  8/5/2023 - jmart2018 wrote: flawed

  Probably a bad bottle...oxidative notes overtake all else -- almost sherry-like, but I don't think that's the intended style based on other notes. Outside of the oxidative character, some pineapple and pear also present.

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  7/26/2023 - Jochen Richter wrote: 84 Points

  Zu intensiv, ein wenig wie die zu laute Person im Supermarkt. Schon ok, aber ein wenig zurückhaltender wäre angenehmer.

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  7/15/2023 - oldcorke wrote: 87 Points

  Pencil lead & kelp minerality with full ripe American mandrake (podophyllum peltatum) fruits in the nose, and substantial soft yellow fruits on first taste. There's an odd-ish salinity in the mouth set against the ripe yellow fruit, and an overly pungent oak smokiness paired with just unripe stem tannins... reminding me of a not particularly favored Meursault. The word is disjoint... currently... tho all the leading actors are present, individually. Thus it will be, I think, for 3-4 years hence. I suspect the respectable acids & oak tannin will carry it that far, although, to what end I'm not at all sure.
  
  For a good example of this style done well.. see 2019 Diatom Bar-M chardonnay. Therein, the oak's pungency is subtley expressed against the fat of fruit on your tongue reminding nearly of Condrieu... followed by matchstick & rocky (rather than misplaced) salinity set against -just- ripe yellow fruits (rather than well ripe) (Personal rating on 19 Diatom Bar-M 92-93) The word(s) are deft integration.

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  1/11/2023 - Olmos Cellar Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I’d buy it again

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  12/18/2022 - lpettet wrote: 87 Points

  Fair. Not a lot of unique flavor. A little sharp taste however. Likely won't get again.

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