2014 Ceritas Chardonnay Trout Gulch

Community Tasting Notes (44) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  3/24/2024 - AJBurt Likes this wine: 93 Points

  From a bottle that was coravin’d 3 days ago to test for suitability. Bought at auction.
  
  Pours a beautiful light golden color. Nose is immediately expressive and smells like the sea. Straight up briny, oyster shell, algae. Chablisienne. Some sweetcorn too.
  
  Palate is steely but puts on weight with air. Gorgeous mouthfeel and just really well balanced, delicious stuff. This is probably close to, if not, at peak. 93.

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  1/1/2024 - acidqueen wrote: 94 Points

  Lovely wine. I did a side by side tasting of this with the 2014 Arnot Robert’s Trout Gulch which was interesting. The AR was more high pitched at first and the Ceritas richer, although both with fine acids. After time in glass they began to converge. This still shows the lime and honeysuckle I mentioned in my 2020 note. It becomes fresher with time in glass but still shows an earthy smell that I identify with many Ceritas wines. I called out the same flavors in the AR. Maybe this is a Trout Gulch signature? I probably give the edge to the Ceritas if I have to pick one but it isn’t a fair choice. Both are stunning.

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  10/3/2023 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Dinner at 312 Fish Market (Chicago, IL): Next to the Heintz, this is far more minerally and steely, with more of a structural backbone. The fleshier, California fruit is still present and detectable here, but here it serves to balance those structural elements. In hindsight, while I've always thought I liked the Heintz more, I think I may have been wrong about that.

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  9/26/2023 - jjct Likes this wine:

  Racy, acid-driven. Saline. Good concentration, great energy. Drinking very well.

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  5/8/2023 - acidqueen wrote: 94 Points

  Solidly in the drinking zone. Still fine acid structure but it has filled out with time. Lime, honeysuckle, salt. Very good and drinking now.

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