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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.3 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 153 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by mclanew on 4/12/2024 & rated 94 points: Popped and poured. Subtle nose showing pear, orange peel and a little sea salt. The wine is medium to full bodied, silky and elegant and remarkably fresh still. This lacks the complexity of the best vintages but is still quite good. Aubert is the most consistent long term agers among chardonnays that I have found. (366 views) | | | Tasted by gbbwino on 4/5/2024: Last of my 3 bottles & 2nd in the past week. Purchased direct from winery & cellared since. Past it’s prime & in a downside. Not very enjoyable, very disjointed & flabby. My 3/30 bottle was not good. Tonight was better but still not Aubert quality. Opened a ‘14 to follow this & it was measurably better. Wonder if ‘13 was just not a long lived vintage. Still thankful for the opportunity. (341 views) | | | Tasted by jfpwine on 3/29/2024: Golden yellow. Nose feels quite advanced. Lemon tart, toast, yellow apple and slight stone fruit on the nose. Good acidity on the palate, long finish. Not sure if the bottle was just off, or if it was just falling apart. Will try another one soon and report back, although given the fact that I had the same experience than the previous reviewer, I'm not optimistic. Drink up. (456 views) | | | Tasted by wine65 on 2/9/2024 & rated 91 points: Golden yellow. Restrained nose of caramel and light toast. Meyer lemon, green apple, slightly oxidized notes of caramel and light toast. Drinking nicely but I would recommend drinking up at this point before the inevitable decline occurs. (507 views) | | | Tasted by ozziewine on 12/7/2023 & rated 94 points: Had this in July 2017 and it was a different experience then. Brighter with more fruit. As you'd expect, six years later and it has more of a burnt creme brulee essence and some heat on the finish. Definitely showing its' age with some slight oxidation.
Still scored it the same as I appreciated this evolved version as well.
It benefitted from one hour of air (and subsequent aeration in the glass) and a slight chill helps to mitigate the heat on the finish.
Very mature tasting but not old or over the hill at all, though I'm not sure there's much improvement with further ageing. The gold color was another indicator of age.
Unless you're a fan of really mature California Chardonnay, I'd suggest drinking this sooner than later. (760 views) | | | Tasted by rcasaw on 5/26/2023 & rated 94 points: great Aubert (1178 views) | | | Tasted by rcasaw on 5/26/2023: 94 (966 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 4/12/2023 & rated 95 points: Coravin and drank 2 months later. Wow. Flavors galore. Long finish. Top of its class. Drink or Hold. (1194 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 3/3/2023 & rated 95 points: Always special. (1219 views) | | | Tasted by rustyRudy on 2/28/2023: Light yellow, very citrusy when cold. (1174 views) | | | Tasted by rustyRudy on 1/29/2023: Dark yellow (1028 views) | | | Tasted by timothynbond on 12/23/2022 & rated 96 points: Pale gold color. Loads of caramel, baked apple, and butter on the nose. Medium-to-medium-full body, medium-to-medium-low acid. Very rich, with initally noticeable oak. Took some time to open up before delivering lemon curd, orange marmalade, and crème brulee, and a hint of oxidized flavors. Really great depth and length. Outstanding example of California chardonnay; wine of the year candidate (976 views) | | | Tasted by Bigtuna on 11/21/2022 & rated 92 points: Needed a 3 hour decant (1034 views) | | | Tasted by rpenn77 on 10/2/2022 & rated 93 points: Delightful chard with a long finish. (1256 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 7/10/2022 & rated 93 points: So much potential in the glass. I found this tightly wounded with excerpts of lemon dust. I would next time decant and then hold for 2-4 more years. Maybe like a burgundy in a dumb period. (1598 views) | | | Tasted by VindependenceDay on 4/26/2022 & rated 94 points: Drank over a week with Coravin. This note is from the last glass. Really just a lot going on. Brassy yellow color. Slightly cloudy? Nose is lively (and lovely) - crème brûlée (but strongly of burnt sugar) lemon curd, ripe Bartlett pear. In the mouth medium viscosity, but thicker as it warmed up. Cutting acidity. It was great as an aperitif, and then thru the main (grilled bass), and even after the meal with cheese plate. Gosh, what a happy wine. (1632 views) | | | Tasted by kkoshkin on 4/11/2022 & rated 97 points: Sublime. Could go another 10 years. Maybe 20. (1654 views) | | | Tasted by winelover1808 on 12/23/2021 & rated 95 points: Wow. This is stunning. Makes me truly lament the numerous Aubert Chardonnays I had way too young. At eight years of age this is stunning . Deep Golden hue. Tropical fruits, some creme brûlée, a bit of crushed rocks and salinity on the nose.
The mouthful is beautiful . Some tart apple and tangerine, with pineapple - def medium plus bodied. Long finish with pleasant bitterness . Terrific acidic cut. This is really a true CA grand cru. (1808 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 10/19/2021 & rated 95 points: Need I say more. (2044 views) | | | Tasted by gotwine on 9/16/2021 & rated 97 points: surprisingly young and vibrant - 97 (2105 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 8/1/2021 & rated 95 points: Given time it opened up to show how fantastic Mark’s wines are. Buy (2497 views) | | | Tasted by canan on 6/25/2021 & rated 95 points: BYO US Wines (@Terkel): Good and classic Chardonnay fruit with a touch of oak. Some vanilla coming through but it is in a great balance. Solid depth and length revealing a very lovely wine.
It was a huge surprise when this was revealed after tasting it blind. Probably my best Aubert with age and it seems to have balanced out nice. The alcohol feel is not overdone as I normally find when tasting them. Young though..
Loved it! (1908 views) | | | Tasted by chetlee on 6/22/2021 & rated 96 points: Stunning (2123 views) | | | Tasted by tcarter on 4/14/2021 & rated 96 points: Wonderful. (2363 views) | | | Tasted by lvjohn on 4/5/2021 & rated 96 points: This totally surprised us with its beautiful fruit and its amazing depth. We never had a chardonnay this old that held up so well . We drank over 2 days. It was a great wine! I concur with member SCHIFFY's recent tasting note. (2426 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Aubert Producer website2013 Aubert Chardonnay Lauren Estate VineyardVineyard and Winemaking
The Lauren Estate Vineyard is our inspiration to raise the quality bar higher and higher. As the vines continue to mature, we see more powerful and concentrated efforts. Planted on a unique profile of gravelly gold-ridge soils, there is remarkable purity to these wines. The 2013 Lauren is nothing short of ethereal, and in comparison to our other 2013 Chardonnays it has no equal.
The Lauren Estate is comprised of four distinct Chardonnay clones, and each clonal block is harvested at its ideal ripeness. In order to ensure the preservation of quality, we harvest at night and use refrigerated trucks to maintain the intense flavor nuances in the grapes. Primary and secondary fermentation were conducted in barrel and took nearly eight months to complete. Blended only before the final racking to bottle, each lot is scrutinized and evaluated. Lauren is aged in 100% new French oak barrels for 10 months, and then carefully racked to tank for four months to clarify and concentrate before bottling.
Bottled in December 2014 Unfined and unfiltered
from AUBERT 2013 Lauren Estate Vineyard Sonoma Coast Chardonnay Tasting Notes
Chardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma Coast * Sonoma Coast AVA (Wikipedia)
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