Community Tasting Notes 12

• Charlie C Likes this wine: 96 points

  February 15, 2024 - Light, vibrant gold color. Lemons, apricots, iodine on the fragrant nose. Gorgeous mouthfeel, precise, balanced and lush. Lemons, minerals, apricots, pears, touch of vanilla oak. Everything in harmony. Precise, clean acidity and fabulous balance. Finishes long and lingering with lemons, minerals and a bit of tropical fruit. Even better than my last bottle 8 months ago. Drink next 8 to 10 years (although I won't be able to keep away from them that long). Fabulous Chardonnay.

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• ekorn Likes this wine:

  December 29, 2023 - Popped and poured at fridge temp. This wine managed to straddle the old/new world line — a crowd pleaser. This definitely had some opulence — the 40% new oak is noticeable at this stage and especially as the wine warmed up — and the fruit came through on the palate with a certain cotton-candy grape ripeness. Enjoyable, and looking forward to seeing how the wine emerges as the oak integrates the in the years to come.

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• Tridaddy wrote: 96 points

  September 8, 2023 - Massimo ushers great grapes from vineyard to bottle. This bottle is amazing, Paired with farm stand tomatoes, zucchini, local farm italian sausage and angel hair pasta (obviously some garlic, parsley and parmigiana). The wine + food. Blew my mind. A truly beautiful Chardonnay with an old world heart.

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• Charlie C Likes this wine: 94 points

  June 2, 2023 - Lovely pale gold color. Aromas of spice and lemon/lime. Crisp on the palate, light touch on the oak. Lemon, pear, spice, gobs of minerals. Racy, well-controlled acidity, great balance. Finishes long and lingering, lemon, beautiful minerality, touch of honey. Let this warm up a bit. That slight touch of oak on the palate fades away. Beautiful wine. Will develop for 3 to 4 years and drink well for 10.

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• bendb Likes this wine: 95 points

  May 11, 2023 - Holy smokes. I'm not a big Chardonnay fan but this was *delicious*. Popped and poured, then drank over an hour or two with Vietnamese food - it was taut, mineral, juicy, and just... good. I wish I'd taken notes, but it was gone before I even thought about it.
  
  Very glad to have another five bottles - this one's a winner, and the first chard I can remember that has me wanting to buy more.
  
  Bravo to the Di Constanzo team!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2021
• Type White
• Producer Di Costanzo
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation DI CO
• Vineyard Deering Vineyards
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Moon Mountain District

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• Pending Delivery 15 (4%)
• In Cellars 205 (57%)
• Consumed 137 (38%)

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