I found this to be a great balance of citrus, yeast, acidity, fruit and rich toast. Pear was distinctive. This is harmonious and elegant. For NV this really excels.

My last bottle, and the best. I hope I get to try it again in the future. What's great about Dom is the elegance and balance. There is the lemon and acidity that plays against the rich oak and toast.

This is a harmonious and distinctly California chardonnay. There is ripe peach and pear, along with plenty of French oak (I don't think it is overoaked). I'm glad to see I have a bottle of this and look forward to trying it in 4 years or so.

Pop and pour. This wine was a rockstar. Dried herbs, spice mix, lots of tar, beef blood, cherry, blue fruit, cassis, brambly wet forest floor. What was cool was that you'd get a new smell or taste out of it every time. This was the best Chapoutier I've had, I'm still not sure they're worth the current asking prices, but this rocked.

Decanted about 2 hours. This was distinctly Dunn. Funky and red-fruited. There are herbs, olives, and leather. This showed amazingly well.

Decanted 1 hour. This wine was dense and bordering on jammy. It opened up with more air, but the fruit is still really dense and hearty. Besides fruit, there is fertile earth. Among the 6 of us, everyone else liked this wine more than I did, but 93 is still a pretty darn good score.

Decanted about 3 hours. This followed a 2005 Scarecrow, which in hindsight might not have been the right order. The Scarecrow was much bigger, while this was leaner and more of a Bordeaux blend :). I totally get the influence of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc on this. I actually preferred this wine over the Scarecrow, but it's totally an apples to oranges comparison.

This is a balanced and textbook Sauternes.