2021 Collector Wines Chardonnay Tiger Tiger

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  4/7/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I’m raising my assessment of this wine. The acid is electric. Exciting drinking now.
  
  12.9%, screwcap.

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  1/18/2024 - For The Love of Loosen Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nose of almond, new oak and a hint of struck match. White peach and pink grapefruit. Good acid, my wife labelling this as fresh. A leaner style, almost bordering on a little tight at this point. Clean yes, but also some time on lees. Our tasting group met to pick the Chardonnay for one of our member’s wedding: we all chose this wine. 12.9% ABV. Collector apparently a suburb of Canberra, and definitely worth putting a few of these down in the cellar. Drink now henceforward to 5 years plus.

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  12/19/2023 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very classy but a bit dilute. Not on par with previous vintages.
  
  12.9%, screwcap.

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  10/1/2023 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Avid has written a very good note on this one to add to the bank of reviews.
  
  This note will, thus, be less a review than a paean to the way sometimes a good but not great wine can none-the-less be part of something great.
  
  Another grinding Friday, where I haul my sorry arse out of bed after spending a few happy hours between 2 and 4am worrying about work, worrying about the coming fire season, AI and other happy places. The phone starts at 8am sharp, emails begin to bank up. How do you even think when there is all this noise?
  
  I can't begin to think about what food and wine I want to drink when I finally get to the weekend. Does it matter? I have to do my monthly trust account reconciliation and maths and I are not good friends. The weekend offers only a change in pace to the unremitting, bloody grind.
  
  Around 1.30pm I return another lawyer's call. I have loaded up the flame thrower and triangulated the place for a nice missile strike. All that will be missing will be me smashing my way down the line to emerge with their blood, gristle and organs in my teeth.
  
  I am completely disarmed when I suggest we speak further on Monday and there is a slight pause and then my putative dinner says 'But it's a public holiday' in a tone that suggests I have proposed we dine on Bambi.
  
  A public holiday? Monday off? Suddenly all is good with the world. I can hear Quiet Riot's 'Metal Health' and Accept's 'Balls to the Wall' and Nazareth 'Hair of the Dog'. I need lunch and I need booze.
  
  Off to Tilley's where many a happy slammer spends time in the afternoon, slurping and procrastinating. I used to be good at both those things, once. Today I return to my inner truth. Now it is Lee Aaron's 'Metal Queen'. I have the Salt and Pepper Squid - they now do a few things with it for me that are not on the menu, though a nude Lee Aaron is still a work in progress. I want, I need, I deserve and am worthy of booze.
  
  I could drink a bottle of Peroni and then get back to work. Suddenly, every decent rock band worth a dime appears before me and they are all saying 'Unless you really are into the whole 1980's Manchester scene, you are getting wine, you worthless bastard'. What can one do? Then Lemmy leans in and adds "Not a glass, son, none of that shit. A bottle or I will have your guts for garters" And so it is a bottle of the 'Tiger Tiger'.
  
  Aside from the wine being rather jolly, 'Tiger' was my ex-wife's nickname for me. Although I tried to explain to her that I didn't really want to share a name with Clemenceau, she seemed to feel it applied (she was more science than history, but I don't really hold it against her - she at least saw that Napoleon was great and she liked cricket and rugger). I always felt more like Captain Haddock than a tiger, or perhaps more like Tigger or Toad. Or Tom Joad.
  
  Regardless of all this ephemera, the 'Tiger Tiger' was great with the food and the moment. I think that whilst there is a bit much grapefruit for me to feel ecstatic, there are lots of other good things happening and, at the price, a lot more than you have a right to expect. It could be bottled piss and I would probably be ok with it because this is the eve of an unexpected long weekend. The wine and the food and the moment have me flying; isn't that all one can really ask for?

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  7/14/2023 - Avid Wino wrote: 92 Points

  Nectarine, melon, grapefruit, lemon. Uncooked bacon. Milky feel, gold top. Bit of struck match and flint. Enough length. Quality and enjoyable but not quite up to the level I hoped for based on some prior vintages.

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