2005 Adega da Cartuxa Pêra-Manca Branco

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  8/22/2016 - crhutchin wrote: 82 Points

  Opened up the 2005 tonight to share with friends with a paella. I normally love this wine. Supposedly the drink window was through 2015. In appearance the wine was a sauterne gold, which indicated to me the wine, had aged. However, it was clean, bright and clear. Normally, this wine is bright pale yellow in appearance. The bouquet was mild, of peaches and apricots. Again my past experience was of huge floral and fruit aromas. Rather disappointing in the mouth as it was a bit one-dimensional. Nice flavors of pears and apples. The finish was short to medium. Overall, I was disappointed but the silver lining was I drank it while it was still drinkable.

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  7/21/2015 - TashNYC wrote: 91 Points

  Dinner at Mistral (Princeton) with Bala, Jen, Sue and Tash (Princeton, NJ): A tasty wine. Notes of pear, apple, hazelnut, nuts. At Mistral. Best with the mushroom on toast with veal tongue. Drink now.

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  6/1/2013 - TashNYC wrote: 92 Points

  Birthday Dinner L'Ecole June 2013 (L'Ecole. Manhattan): Birthday dinner at L'Ecole: I stuck the wine in the freezer in the early pm and drove it to NYC enveloped by an ice cooler.
  It arrived cold -- almost too cold, despite the warm weather -- and the restaurant found an ice bucket, too.
  
  I had a little trepidation about the wine, given the mediocre scores on CT, but our wine was delicious and just singing.
  When too cold it was just a little closed, but it opened to notes of pear, apple, honeysuckle, nuts and petrol, with lots and lots of minerality and great acidity.
  
  We last had this wine on July 4 2010: it is *so* different now, with the exuberant tropical fruit flavors (mango, papaya, banana) replaced with the more serious apple and pear.
  I'm not sure which I like best: they are very different. One professional taster called this "an imaginary blend of a Montrachet and an Austrian Riesling" -- and I think that is right.
  This Portuguese wine certainly went with the French food.
  
  It especially paired with the pea soup and creme fraiche amuse bouche, but also with the salted butter on the bread.
  I think it (still) really wants Portuguese food (cod with salt). I thought it would also pair with the branzino with the olive tapenade, but I never got back to it, to find out.
  (I was having duck). I had some of the crab but that wasn't a good match for the wine.
  
  While delicious, I would drink now or in the next year or so.
  
  We paid $21.98 on January 3, 2008. Some post-New Year's sale. Great QPR at that price point.

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  12/13/2012 - KeithAkers wrote: 86 Points

  Dinner at Goosefoot (Goosefoot, Chicago IL): Nose: There are nice and forward tones of melons, roasted nuts, pears, and some smoke tones as well.
  
  Taste: Fuller bodied, but the acidity is lacking and leaves it slightly hollow. There are nice and balanced tones of melons, pears, and roasted nuts.
  
  Overall: This was lacking some depth on both the nose and palate. It was still a very good and interesting white that paired well with the food.

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  8/8/2012 - CarpeVinoDiem wrote: 91 Points

  No notes taken.
  
  Clean cork.
  
  Look: Medium bright yellow '04.
  
  Body: 3% milk.
  
  Nose: Lemon, honeysuckle, vanilla, lt. butter, almond, calcium.
  
  Taste: Apple, pear, lt. lemon, honeysuckle, medium vanilla, calcium.
  Big weighty girl for big food.
  
  Showed bigger than the St. Germann.
  
  Very fun big white.
  
  Enjoy now or within a few yrs.
  
  91 pts.

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