Community Tasting Note

• NPWolfe wrote: 79 points

  July 26, 2009 - Sometimes you see something, or hear something, or read something that just leaves you slack jawed in wonderment. That was exactly my feeling when I read a review of Edward Tufte’s book, Beautiful Evidence. Those two words, beautiful evidence, are the best description of wine as the physical embodiment of the vintners vision and the vintners skill as I have ever heard. This sentence from the book is one that I wish more vintners would take to heart. “Making an evidence presentation is a moral act as well as an intellectual activity.” Perhaps if vintners regarding wine making as a moral activity there would be a far greater number of interesting wines.
  
  While the grapes may have been organically grown, there was definitely a slight industrial smell and taste to the wine, a smell of tanks and hoses. Pleasant fresh Chardonnay flavors. Not much in the way of oak. Clean and just a quarter step away from being crisp. The kind of Chardonnay that you would find in a domestic white wine flight at a mid-level wine bar.

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