2007 Golan Heights Winery Chardonnay Yarden

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 85.2 points

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  4/1/2013 - raccah Does not like this wine: 86 Points

  I really did not like this wine this time, the oak was far too pronounced and not integrated. Maybe I could have waited a few more years - but it was time to drink it for me. Maybe, you all can like it - but not for me.

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  3/12/2013 - raccah Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This wine is still a bit closed to start, but then it opens to a bushel full of tropical fruit, oak, and oak influences.
  The nose on this gold colored wine has butterscotch, butter, lemon, toasty cedar, green notes, pear, peach, and apple. The mouth on this full bodied wine is viscous, rich, and velvety, with good body, yellow apple, rich toasty wood, lovely balancing acid, and caramel notes that linger long with white chocolate. The finish is long with super spicy with cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, and cedar that lingers long.

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  11/20/2012 - forceberry wrote: 76 Points

  Deep, concentrated golden yellow color, almost coppery. Not even dessert wines are as deeply yellow-colored as this! Incredibly powerful, opulent and ridiculously oak-driven nose with humongous amounts of toffee oak, cream and butter with an underlying mélange of sweet, overripe tropical fruits like peaches and pineapples. The palate is as oak-driven as the nose with extremely pronounced wood spice and butter character taking the lead, followed by flavors of butterscotch, caramel, toffee and toasted wood. There are some nuances of sweet, overripe tropical fruit, but they are quite overwhelmed by the oak character. The mouthfeel is excessively heavy and almost oily, although there is some structure to the wine, thanks to its refreshing acidity. The wine shows very little else than oak. The finish is extremely long and powerful with very one-dimensional aftertaste of spicy oak, caramel, cream and butter.
  
  The wine is acid-wise surprisingly structured and balanced, considering it tastes more of wood extract and caramel than anything made of grapes. Probably the oakiest wine I have ever tasted. I have no idea how this wine is made, but I guess it's aged in new 10-liter oak casks partially filled with toasted wood chips. I mean, seriously, this is more overdone than any of the Chilean, Australian or Californian monster Chardonnays I have sampled. If you like chewing a two-by-four, you'll probably love this, but if you prefer wines that show even the slightest sense of fruit, steer clear of this one. Definitely not worth the 16,98€.

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  6/4/2011 - toontune wrote: 90 Points

  Scary sulfuric nose at first...which didn't show on the palate and soon dissipated...otherwise great buttery wonderful taste

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  12/3/2010 - raccah wrote: 90 Points

  This wine was closed and tight to start, it took it a good hour or two to come out of its shell. This wine is still not ready to enjoy at its fullest without a fair amount of up front effort.
  The nose on this lemon colored wine has butterscotch, butter, lemon, toasty oak, mint, pear, peach, and apple. The mouth on this full bodied wine has toasty oak, pear, peach, lemon, apricot, and apple. The mid palate is heavy with acid, toasty oak, butterscotch, and a touch of mint. The finish is long with more oak, butter, butterscotch, bright citrus, lemon, and toasty oak. The toasty oak, butterscotch, and lemon linger on the palate.

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