Community Tasting Notes 13

• NoahCap wrote:

  June 13, 2023 - Deep gold in color. Ripe yellow apple, lemon curd, key lime on the nose. There are sweet herbal smells as well: spearmint, thai basil, and icing sugar. A hint of butterscotch on the back as the wine takes on air. Medium plus in the mouth, medium minus on acidity, a supple round texture. Flavors are rich lemon, ripe pineapple, clementine oranges, along with that minty note again and just a hint of those nutty caramel-y flavors that come with age. The finish is long, complex, very pleasing.
  
  Half the bottle held up very well for day 2, perhaps even freshening up a little bit. The flavors clearly show that the wine has a little age, but it is taking the years in stride and there is no sign that it will be declining any time soon.
  
  Despite its being grown on a vineyard full of calcareous marine fossils (hence "White Bones"), there is not a strong mineral component. I kind of expected a Chablis type wine, instead I got a big rich Cote de Beaune: maybe a Meursault. But a really nice wine nonetheless. Crazy to think that this comes from super high elevations vineyards half a world away.

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• _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 18, 2022 - Deep yellow to gold. A beautiful colour. Suprising amounts of lemon on the palate. Good acidity. Maybe not as much minerals as I hoped. For an Argentinian wine, this is stunning. Easily the best I have tried. Unfairly comparing this to burgundy, and it's probably decent 1er Cru level.

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• Vinum Cultura wrote: 90 points

  January 5, 2021 - Deep yellow/amber colour. Nose very developed showing butterscotch and some yellow fruit. In the mouth high acidity and not much more. Short and a bit hollow. Past it’s peak.

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• KenPlace wrote: 91 points

  July 3, 2020 - Deep yellow color, mineral, tropical notes. I was expecting more.

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• Ara Kafafian Does not like this wine: 85 points

  February 19, 2020 - Blind, lemons, herbe de provence, acid, some acid and more acid, just not my style, burning throat going down. Drink now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Bodega Catena Zapata
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation White Bones
• Vineyard Adrianna Vineyard
• Country Argentina
• Region Mendoza
• SubRegion Valle de Uco
• Appellation Gualtallary
• UPC Codes 098709099074, 7794450003386

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• In Cellars 75 (42%)
• Consumed 105 (58%)

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