2014 Goodfellow Family Cellars Chardonnay Richard's Cuvee

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  3/26/2024 - Theamateurwinesnob Likes this wine:

  What more do we want from Chardonnay? Instant regret not buying more of this. From 375ml bottle.
  
  Some flinty reduction (stylish but not overbearing), pear, yellow apple, lemon, some florals, and some a kiss of premium butter. I’m not a fan of overwhelming oak myself but I challenge anyone who says they don’t like “oaked Chardonnay” to try this bottling and not fully enjoy this. The oak is perfectly played and brings out the potential of this wine. On the palate, you get loads of minerality with great concentration in a medium/med+ body and balanced acidity. The intensity and minerality of this wine almost delivers a spicy finish. Does that make sense?
  
  Paired perfectly with my buttered scallops, lemon asparagus, and brussel sprouts. Easily my favorite Chardonnay producer from Oregon at the moment and plays at the level of great Burgundian producers IMO. Divine!

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  1/15/2024 - Dale M wrote: 95 Points

  My last bottle of this was drank in 2017, in which I really liked it - thought that there was potential, but the evolution over the last 7 years was a quantum leap forward. Absolutely on point from the very first sip, you just new this was going be special. A perfect synergy of both energy and grace; this delivers the mail with such an attractive core of ever so slightly sweetened minerals and rocks, almost flirts with being a Riesling, but the flint and richness of some very discreet wood leave little doubt this is indeed a Chardonnay. And an exquisite one at that. Perhaps a top 5 OR Chard for me.

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  11/12/2022 - Oregonnative Likes this wine: 96 Points

  I drink a lot of Oregon Chardonnay and some burgs. This wine is the best I’ve had in a long time. It’s a wedding yr wine I enjoyed w my better half. Marcus nailed the 2014 vintage, making restrained and balanced wines in a hot year. Feels Pulgny like. Great acidity that plays so well with the malo. I didn’t pick up reduction. Usual Chardonnay notes, green and yellow apple, citrus. Great balance, long finish. Bottle was finished in short order. Paired with air fried panko crusted chicken and sole. Last bottle went out with a bang. Bravo.

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  1/15/2022 - BURGHen Boy Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very complex flavor profile. Wood, dark apple, kiwi all wrap around a swirling mineral base. Lots of backbone too. Glad I held to develop some of these complexities

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  1/16/2021 - Bob H wrote:

  Delicious - one of my favorite vintages to drink of this wine (and one I luckily bought a good amount of). The reductive petrol is fairly faint on this bottle. Chiseled/structured on the palate with good acidity and persistence. If I’m recalling this correctly, Marcus finds this cuvee to be best at 5-7 years after the vintage, but in this particular vintage, IMO, the wine feels like it still has a lot of time in front of it.

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