2017 Lismore Chardonnay Estate Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.8 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View cct's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/27/2024 - cct wrote: 92 Points

  Served blind
  
  A fresh herbal and floral nose with ripe orchard fruit, spring herbs, chalk and jasmine. Lovely, sapid and deep on the palate with plenty of dry extract delivered with the clarity of mineral water. This is flesh, chalky, and powerful, yet nuanced and detailed with terrific focus and a sense of balance. My blind guess was first a cult satellite appellation Burgundy producer, then hoped it was a great Dijon clone Oregon chardonnay. It was obviously neither, and I loved it. My first time with this wine and count me impressed.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View pavel_p's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/12/2023 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A bit more than a year since my last bottle. Pnp. A pale lemon yellow in the glass. Beautiful cool climate Chardonnay nose. Starts very tight with lots of tension and a bit of chalk, resembling very good 1er Cru Chablis. With more air the wine loosens up, the sweet oak showing now, a complex and precise palate, more in the orange and ripe grapefruit than lemon spectrum. Good length.
  A decidedly old world style of Chardonnay. Neal Martin compared this vintage to a Corton Charlie and later vintages to a Meursault 1er Cru, to me this is different to a typical Burgundy with those pronounced orange notes and the Chablis like chalk. 92-93.
  PS: Looks like more recent vintages are considerably up in price, so all those lofty Neal Martin ratings seem to have an impact

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View rikipedia's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/21/2023 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Lovely aromas of soft peach, toast, and lemon augmented with ripe apple and pineapple lifted out of syrup, smoke, and oak spices.
  Mid to full-bodied, the wine is richly textured, underscored by a vibrant acid and filled with notes of yellow sliced and baked orchard fruits, pineapple, and white peach threaded through with an orange-y freshness and wafts of wood smoke. The back palate has a pleasant firmness to the acidity, giving shape and mid to long length. Still showing nicely at six years old.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View jepstein4031's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/18/2023 - jepstein4031 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Interesting bottle. Clearly Chardonnay. Oak on the nose and palate, but then it dissolves into this precise, (but not harsh) acidity, and a long finish that leaves your mouth watering. Crowd pleaser, but serious. Definite new world, but in a good way. Maybe wait a year or so for the oak to settle down a little.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View pavel_p's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/14/2021 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Pnp and drank over 2h. Interesting Chardonnay. Pale lemon yellow. I like the chalkiness here, there is still a bit of oak showing, a sweet touch indeed but this is not one of those rich and round new world Chardonnays, instead fine texture and fairly precise. Neal's comparison to a Corton Charlemagne seems a little far fetched in my eyes but it's a nice white on its own.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

View all 7 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.