Community Tasting Notes 21

• swoop71 Likes this wine: 90 points

  February 15, 2024 - Light straw in color with excellent clarity. Good acidity throughout with hints of tropical fruit and citrus flavors. Medium to long finish for a somewhat unoaked chardonnay.

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• Sheldog Likes this wine: 90 points

  July 4, 2023 - This wine really changed as warmed up some after taking it out of the wine chiller. The wine was a pale straw color. At first there wasn’t much nose or character. But after waiting a few minutes it came alive. Some banana and roasted marshmallows came to light on the nose which was very unique. A definite presence of toasted oak on the palate but lacks signs of malolactic fermentation other that a viscous mouthfeel.
  
  Overall, this isn’t my favorite WS Chardonnay. But perhaps the vintage had something to do with that. 2015 isn’t a favorite of mine for grapes from Northern California.

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• Stumpy wrote: 93 points

  March 8, 2021 - Vibrant chard with bright fruit and a snappy mouthfeel. Best WS chard I have had in years!

• peternelson wrote: 91 points

  December 19, 2020 - Coravinned a glass tonight; aromatic tropical notes, mango, pineapple, coconut, with some nice ripe orchard fruit notes of peach apple, but a bit too ripe and fruity with a good dose of fine french oak, but maybe too much; alcohol is a bit high as well, just seemed too fruit driven which I'm not a fan of. On the other hand there is good cut, nice balance, some good underlying mineral notes that might make me think of a ripe Macon. Medium+ bdy, decent finish. I think either I'm just not a fan of WS chards, or it could need another 5 years which I think this could def handle. I bit disappointed. I'll try the rest tomorrow and see if it settled down a bit, and find out what the oak treatment is on this. 89
  
  Next day: the fluffy fruitiness blew off and this showed much better, more mineral, pit fruits, still a touch of oak, nice balanced body with fairly high acidity. Really nice with Ramen tonight! Definitely let this breathe if you're going to pop it. 91

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• krhaugh Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 4, 2020 - Beautiful Chardonnay.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type White
• Producer Williams Selyem
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Lewis MacGregor Estate Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Russian River Valley

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• In Cellars 176 (38%)
• Consumed 292 (62%)

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