Community Tasting Notes 15

• advinm41 Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 21, 2023 - This is outstanding effort. Drank it the following day after 2018 Kistler Mccrea and while Mccrea much more Burgundian/Montrachet styled wine this is very refined and has more sweetness and less acidity/minerality. Nose is of green apple, orange, lemon curd, pineapples with wafts of yeast and baking bread. Palate is very smooth with good balance of sweetness and acidity and outstanding long finish.
  95 pts for now but may improve with few more years. This was/is worth cellaring for a while.

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• Brent25 Likes this wine: 90 points

  December 25, 2022 - Clear medium hazy gold; clean medium plus nose of lemon curd, vanilla and caramel; dry; medium plus acidity; medium plus alcohol; medium plus body; medium plus flavour intensity; palate is tarter and a little muddy; long finish; drink now - seems to be on the down slope with palate a little out of balance

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• Kim Gerner wrote: 90 points

  July 14, 2022 - 2/3 of the bottle left after having been coravined in dec. 2020. Perfect condition after 1 1/2 years. Rich with more bitterness (bitterness is not my favourite) than I remember from my earlier tastings. 90+

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• Kim Gerner wrote: 90 points

  December 31, 2020 - A flight of 4 Chardonnays: Tasted Chanson Pere & Fils Meursault Village 2013 (developed in the glass, ended up beeing the best of the 4. Perfect right now - classical Meursault, rich but not too rich with stone fruit, toast and balanced acidity. Drink it now! - it's not getting better in the coming years. 91/100). Darviot-Perrin Meursault-Perrieres 2005 (too old and premox! Bad luck). Instead I chose J.M Boillot Puligny-Montrachet 1. cru Les Combottes 2008 (tasted it 3 times before with different results. Based on the tastings my recommendation is: Drink it now. 2 of the bottles, including this had past it's best. It was ok, but oxidation definitely in processs. 90/100). The last bottle was Kistler Noiseteers 2016 (Richer than the Bourgogne bottles, which were more elegant. 90/100).

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• CrossMartinWine wrote: flawed

  September 26, 2020 - There is a lot going on in a glass of Noisetiers. To the nose it had subtle scents of mango and caramel, though these were less evident on the palette. Here, it was more green apple skin, pineapple, stone and a hint of anise.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type White
• Producer Kistler
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Les Noisetiers
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma Coast
• UPC Code 4000124794775

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• In Cellars 187 (22%)
• Consumed 681 (78%)

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