Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Saturday, October 23, 2021 - This wine is made not with any Chardonnay clones, but solely with Chardonnay Clone 76. The "Inox" part means the wine is fermented and aged only in stainless steel, so it doesn't see any oak during the vinification. 14,5% alcohol.

Still surprisingly youthful pale yellow-green color. Clean and relatively youthful nose with bright aromas of lemony citrus fruits, some ripe grapefruit tones, a little bit of smoky reduction and a developed hint of nutty complexity. The wine feels ripe, youthful and quite lively on the palate with a medium body and clean flavors of juicy golden apples, some nectarine, light sweet notes of white peach, a little bit of leesy richness and a hint of steely minerality. The acidity feels high at first, but there's a hint of zippy, crisp character here making me think the wine has a tiniest bit of CO2, as the acidity feels somewhat lower - albeit still quite high - after a little while. The finish is fresh, clean and quite refreshing with moderately long flavors of crunchy Golden Delicious apple, some juicy citrus fruit notes of lemon and pomelo, light leesy tones, a little bit of steely minerality and an evolved, nutty hint of slivered almonds.

A lovely, bright and precise California Chardonnay made in a style more reminiscent of Chablis than classic, rich and buttery Cali Chard - although the wine is admittedly slightly more ripe than your typical Chablis. What surprised me the most here, however, how remarkably youthful the wine still is now at 11 years of age, showing just a little bit of developed nuttiness, otherwise coming across as very bright, precise and fruit-forward, lacking any oxidative or tired qualities. A very nice effort, priced according to its quality at 34,50€.

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