Community Tasting Notes 13

• WetRock wrote:

  May 30, 2009 - Blind Unoaked Chardonnay and Petit Sirahs (Fratello's, Laguna Niguel, CA): Served blind. Ripe nose of papaya and banana. Fat palate shows some spritz with an ugly finish. I imagine this has seen better days.

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• WetRock wrote:

  May 30, 2009 - Blind Unoaked Chardonnay and Petit Sirahs (Fratello's, Laguna Niguel, CA): Served blind. Nose shows ripeness in the way of baked fruits. Very ripe yet flat palate.

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• Frank Murray III wrote:

  May 30, 2009 - OC Fratello Offline--Stainless Chards And Petite Sirahs (Fratello's Laguna Niguel): Steely, with pear, lemon-lime and fennel.
  Note--we blind poured this wine and I added a second bottle of this same wine to the lineup. Bottle #2 showed smoky, rich and round, lacking a crispness and while I thought it drank fine, it lacked the lean verve of the typical Inox and I think the vintage showed more with the second bottle, given the round notes and more weightedness.

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• dd wrote:

  May 22, 2008 - getting better

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• mellison wrote: 86 points

  February 20, 2008 - For some reason this bottle just did not have it. Tasted flat and over the hill. Previous bottles were great but this was sub par at best.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type White
• Producer Melville
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Estate Clone 76 - Inox
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Sta. Rita Hills

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• In Cellars 28 (26%)
• Consumed 81 (74%)

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