2020 Hundred Suns Chardonnay Old Eight Cut

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  5/8/2023 - doctornoah Likes this wine: 91 Points

  River School Auction Tasting (Washington DC): Incisive, bright, and young as heck. Good length, but outclassed in this tasting against aged Cameron and White burg. Good upside. A bit of oak still to be subsumed.

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  1/17/2023 - fussyeater wrote:

  Revisited. Lemon and white grapefruit on the nose, midpalate is a bit more flabby and less chiselled / precise compared with previous bottle.

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  12/17/2022 - fussyeater Likes this wine:

  Upon opening a bit of smoke but far less than the PYCMs I drunk the other lunch, which in this instance quickly blows off (even though it is supposed to be a "smoke taint" vintage), followed by seaweed and salty seawater on beach pebbles.
  
  Weight and viscosity on the palate (the Diam10s now make sense - this is a serious wine) with a lovely mouthfeel. More on the yellow fruits which are ripe but not too sweet, there is nothing confected or artificial here - purity in spades. It is saline and appetising and v refreshing with good length and real persistence on the finish.
  
  I was expecting something less serious and made for immediate consumption, but this is a compelling Oregon white deserving proper cellaring (but do still try a bottle soon if you can - it is still a joy right now). 12.9% ABV from Zalto Universal and served PnP from a v cold cellar.

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  10/23/2022 - jvphoto Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Prickly pear, pineapple, lemon zest, ginger, crystalline acidity

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  9/2/2022 - rorothecat wrote: flawed

  Very smoke tainted. Drinks like a scotch. Undrinkable for my palate.

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