Community Tasting Notes 49

• kmforster wrote: flawed

  April 11, 2022 - Premox. Bummer.

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• Miceri Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 2, 2022 - Light golden yellow; butter and summer flowers in the nose; liquid gold from the very first attack, Kistler at its best (I find 10 years to be a good age for these wines with lots of developed complexity and not overdue), pleasant throughout, enveloping glycerin around a core of honey with the right amount of acidity to give it nerve; if anything I believe I find a bit of a metalic aftertaste (?) and the aftertaste is a bit abrupt ending on a slightly flat note from a texture point of view, while the taste itself keep lingering on the back of your tongue for minutes; could have been all the way up there, but for the metalic (?) taste and somehow flat’ish ending; nevertheless an outstanding wine hard to beat

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• BernieMSY Does not like this wine: 75 points

  August 9, 2021 - Stick a fork in this one. It’s done. Heavily caramelized, dark honeyed color and taste profile. I held onto this one too long.

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• IAmVintage wrote: 94 points

  June 23, 2021 - Drinking beautifully, likely in its prime now though good to go longer. Balanced, all components (acidity, citrus & stone fruit, brioche, mineral) well integrate, nice long satisfying finish.

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• drjb Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 11, 2020 - Long lunch at Esmay Restaurant, Noosa River. I liked this 9 year old Kistler that showed a New World set of flavours framed with a classical structure of fine acid and mineral characters that followed a moderately intense set of white stone fruit, pear and lemon characters touched with honeysuckle and hazelnuts. I'm yet to have a disappointing Kistler which always walks the more classical side of the road.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Kistler
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard McCrea Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma Mountain
• UPC Code 4000121075426

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• Pending Delivery 2 (0%)
• In Cellars 682 (36%)
• Consumed 1,205 (64%)

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