2006 Springfield Estate Chardonnay Méthode Ancienne

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  7/17/2020 - ShaunB Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Pear and apple. Oak now well integrated. Great wine!

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  6/11/2015 - glapuyade wrote: 93 Points

  Amazingly Montrachet like! Intense honey gold color. Despite nearing the decade mark the freshness, acidity and minerals were all still kickin!

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  5/5/2012 - quickben wrote: 91 Points

  Mmmm this is iChat and voluptuous but enough acidity to avoid many hint of cloying. Old world style that is a great testimony to non- interventionist wine making

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  2/23/2012 - Oh Dae-su wrote: 92 Points

  The colour in my glass was rather dark, golden yellow without a lot of particles. Well, it needed the nose, just the nose, to conquer my heart. It proved be enormously complex and refined. I smelled a variety of lemon flavours, sweet’ish orange honey, tropical fruits like pine apple and hints of papaya, breakfast cereal, whipped cream and amazingly gentle scents of oak influence. A touch of classical Chardonnay spices aren’t lacking either. A nose full of character and impact! Bam!
  At first the taste of the Méthode Ancienne Chardonnay impressed with plenty of tropical flavours, quite a lot of buttery aromas, hints of whipped egg whites, elegance, certain freshness and fantastic length. It was broad as well as sophisticatedly delicate. Some hours later the refined and very very very well balanced character of this Chardonnay got more and more impressive. The creamy and buttery attributes (in combination with a very gentle freshness) improved to almost unknown heights. The overall balance, including the slightly increased alcohol (14%, was never in the foreground anyway), took my breath away. Maybe by surprise, maybe by its overwhelming quality!?! I can’t and won’t tell. I just can say: It is a very damn good Chardonnay. Maybe like a very thoughtfully produced high class Meursault. Erase my last statement, please. I should not make such foolish comparisons. On the second day the quality and overwhelming impact hardly changed. Definitely unlike any South African Chardonnay I ever had. Fantastic!

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  8/4/2011 - quickben wrote: 90 Points

  One of my favourites. This gets lovely acidity as well as plenty of fruit and buttery flavours suggesting it should be so much farther north than Robertson - really good.

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