2021 Six Cloves Wines Chardonnay Alder Springs Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  2/16/2024 - timothynbond Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Transparent yellow color. Very pleasant baked goods aromas: vanilla, lemon bar. Medium-light body, medium-plus acid. Initally a bit thin on the palate with tart lemon and some flinty undertones. With air this picked up rich apples and a nice saltiness on the finish. Very good at this price point.

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  10/30/2023 - NoahCap wrote:

  Lovely, soft, smooth, and gentle. Easy to drink; but this is not an "easy-drinker". Pay attention to what's underneath and you'll be rewarded. So overtly smooth and delicious, that I honestly missed a lot of the subtlety myself. My guess is that this would benefit from a few years.

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  9/13/2023 - The Wine Write Likes this wine:

  Elegant, mineral driven. Granny Smith apple and lime flavors, bracing acidity. Good stuff.

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  3/25/2023 - ElJefeTX Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium gold in the glass with aromas of orange creamsicle, unripe banana and green apple. Decent weight on the palate with firm acidity and lots of verve. The palate shows a pronounced saline note with tart apple and citrus peel supporting on the medium-long finish. Very well made and a nice expression of Mendocino Chardonnay.

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  1/22/2023 - River Rat Likes this wine:

  Popped and followed over several days. 13% abv, barrel fermented neutral French oak sur lie, 50% whole cluster, partial malo, racked at bottling.
  
  Pale straw color tinged a touch green. Faint nose varying from saline sea breeze to vanilla bean, white flowers and dried grass. There's a steelie tension to this wine, stems? Very delicate/light touch, mid-palate is hidden at cellar temps but with a rise in temperature lemon curd and oyster shell minerality, turns creamy on the texture. The acidity comes to the forefront followed with a mineral blast, lemon-lime, green apple skin and that tension. The finish is long and lip-pursingly tart. I found it to be most expressive at or near room temperature and on day two. Would pair great with shellfish or creamy pasta. A different cat than the Linda Vista but equally enjoyable.

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