2020 Morgen Long Chardonnay X Omni

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 94.8 points

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  4/17/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Never had this maker before tonight.
  
  Light yellow in the glass. Nose was muted a bit to start. Improved with air and warming in the glass. Lemon citrus and minerals on the nose. Palate of powdery, lemony citrus. This has nice depth and complexity yet seems clean and bright at the same time. I can't appreciate this for the 97s here on CT but at 94-95 it's quite good!

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  12/29/2023 - Iskama Likes this wine:

  You know how sometimes you open a premium wine very young and it doesn’t show much, and you say, it must be closed down or it’s too young, it’ll get better, caught it at a bad time. But you really don’t know. This was maybe the first wine I’ve had where I could see clearly into the future - and there is greatness ahead - but I would say to absolutely not open now, or at least not without a long decant, and not serve too cold.
  
  On night one has a sweet and salty lemon flavor, lemon dominant, acid, very very mineral finish, very good. Day two gets hints of tropical fruit like passion fruit and papaya, but not in a ripe sense, just hints of complexity. It’s all there but it’s whispering to you, not overt, very subtle but coiled and clearly heading for the moon in about 5 years.
  
  I loved this. Clearly a lot of others do too because I’m having a hard time backfilling a wine that seemed easy to obtain just a few weeks ago.

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  11/12/2023 - ledocq Likes this wine:

  More than lived up to expectations - vaulted to the top of domestic chardonnay for me, and I understand the comparison to GC Burgundy. Tropical but not too bold, nice acidic ridge to it but never too tangy. Ridiculously good stuff.

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  8/16/2023 - AJBurt Likes this wine: 97 Points

  I’ve now tasted several of Seth’s wines and I’m struck by the sense of singularity they have. All of them are distinct, with a sense of completeness. As you work your way through the wines from regional to single vineyard, they get more intense and more nuanced.
  
  This X Omni had the most incredible fruit concentration coupled with an intense (but not OTT) acidity; the fruit can handle it. Day 2 brings some toasted nuts and buttered popcorn, whilst keeping that fruit intensity and acidity. Fruit-wise, this is on the citrus fruit spectrum, rather than tropical.
  
  I wish I had more of this wine and yet I don’t regret opening it for a moment. I shall back up the truck for the ‘21s, which may be even better. Bravo Seth!

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  5/21/2023 - OenoEd Likes this wine: 97 Points

  After waiting a year (see my 6/22 CT note below), I brought a bottle to Fossil Farms outdoor farm dinner in Lafayette, to share with a couple of chefs. Packed for hours in a cooler w ice, it had gotten too cold, but no one wanted to wait. I warned them not to judge too soon. Big oak, vanilla and butter toast nose, big body, but clearly tight and cold. 30 minutes of hand warmth and swirling and the overoaked Chassagne like monster transformed to a crystalline butterfly, most of the oak fell out off the palate, and this was now great Chevalier: crushed white rocks, green citrus, tons of lime zest, beautifully balanced, and GC like compelling acidity. Not quite as sharply delineated as my prior bottle of this, but somehow more complete, rounder, more “important”, no longer a novelty. Long finish and long life ahead. Worked beautifully w guinea hen forcemeat, white asparagus gribiche, and bouillabaisse, without tomato. Setting a high bar for how great OR chardonnay can be! Kudos Seth!!

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