Community Tasting Notes 6

• Tuon01 Does not like this wine: 53 points

  January 14, 2022 - I have been on this website for over a decade and I never posted public notes, but I feel this is now a duty to alert others of a bad wine to avoid. Reading other notes, my advice applies also to other vintages of this wine.
  
  When tasted young it was fabulous. Tropical flavours, fruits, oak-vanilla, luscious-buttery. Just reading my old notes makes my mouth water. I had noted that there was a hunch, a hint of "too good to be true? - do we trust the Sicilians?". I mean the oak-vanilla flavours were so strong if I were a cynical critic I'd say this wine was 'chipped' (soaking chips in the vats instead of ageing in oak barrels). I bought 12 bottles in any case and I have seen it go really down the drain. Drank in 2007 it was dead. Provenance was reliable and my cellar is constant 15 degrees so I thought ok, bad bottle. But a second bottle was just as bad. I had been told by someone with authority that white Burgundy goes down after a few years and then comes back up with age. OK, so I thought let's wait a few years. I spare you the middle part. Drinking yesterday the last bottle we threw half in the vinegar-making vat. Similarly bad were almost all the previous bottles over the years, except one which was good, drank in 2017. So my hunch was right, Planeta tried to be upmarket - unsuccessfully. Any new world chard. or cheap white burgundy is better at a fraction of the price. Reading other notes here it is obvious that this wine is good young but it's not worth the effort and becomes really bad after just a few years. AVOID.

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• Terryjbg wrote: 89 points

  May 9, 2009 - The wine showed an very interesting carmel color. Looks can be deceiving as it was a delightful wine with hints of pear and a slightly sweet finish. Perhaps a litle past prime but a nice experience.

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• Zweder wrote:

  April 30, 2008 - Full bodied, round, soft tropical fruits, butter candy, papaya, mango and a little citrus. Fat. With all these tastes it is a complex wine. Pity it is in fact a little too old already. No score.

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• mangell wrote: 86 points

  March 29, 2006 - Dark amber color. Drank one year past CT drinkability window. Started out overly honeyed. Different game with citrus cucumber tuna which brought out clove and citrus notes.

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• Rupert wrote: 88 points

  July 22, 2005 - At Restaurant Eddalino: deep yellow gold, fat, very rich, concentrated, low acid - I would have guessed it as a quite good Australian.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2003
• Type White
• Producer Planeta
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Sicily
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Sicilia

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• In Cellars 18 (25%)
• Consumed 54 (75%)

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