1999 Brewer-Clifton Chardonnay Sweeney Canyon

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  2/14/2009 - Blcmdpa@gmail.com wrote: 91 Points

  soft nose of fruit, apricot more pineapple as it opened, lively fore taste on the tip of the tongue almost efervesenct, mineral flavors and big body for such an old bottle with a very long pleasing finish. I had hoped it was still alive and it was, possibly due to the wax dipped foil over the cork. Glad I gambled on it at auction. Having had the rest of the vertical tasting, I come back to my memory of this bottle as being very special, perhaps it was the additional age, but it was very complex, with alot going on, but still striving for the clearer, cleaner flavor of a Montrechet, while the later wines from Sweeny have, if anything, become more uniquely Californian. It was very nice to meet the more primitive progenitors, and understand more fully, the current polished decendants.

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  10/25/2004 - Blair Curtis wrote: 84 Points

  1428 bottles (119 cases) produced. Straw yellow colour. On the nose, oak, vanilla, butterscotch, apples and a bit of a sour lactic note. On the palate, there seems to be some decent minerality, but it is buried under an avalanche of creamy oak. (After I wrote this note, I learned that these wines don't see that much new oak - 1/3 - very surprising considering the prominence of oak on the profile of this wine). Slightly bitter, like underripe crabapples, with no midpalate at all. Disjointed. Alcohol on the finish - 15% abv and it shows!

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