SWINE Whites Blind Dinner (Chez Leonard): This wine placed 4th in the SWINE Whites Blind Dinner. The experts noted it as a classic California Chardonnay, buttery but not overoaked with hints of carmel
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10 months after last bottle and not improving as hoped. More yeasty and full bore oak than I recall and the fruit is overwhelmed at present. Cloudy darker yellow. Moving toward ripe pears and melons with time. Several more bottles in the cellar, so we will see if time settles the wine.
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Hmm. Didn't impress me at all this time. A slightly bitter oaky note, not a lot of fruit, flabby like so many '07 chards. A mediocre wine at half the price, a crime at $45/btl.
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Medium yellow with a slight cast toward olive oil. Reserved nose. Heavier in weight, leaning toward melons more than apples, but with nice acidity for balance.
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7/9/2011 - Pinot Evil wrote: 91 Points
SWINE Whites Blind Dinner (Chez Leonard): This wine placed 4th in the SWINE Whites Blind Dinner. The experts noted it as a classic California Chardonnay, buttery but not overoaked with hints of carmel
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3/21/2011 - wpd wrote: 90 Points
Medium yellow, fruit, oak and acid in balance. A very nice wine.
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2/28/2011 - smphelps wrote: 87 Points
10 months after last bottle and not improving as hoped. More yeasty and full bore oak than I recall and the fruit is overwhelmed at present. Cloudy darker yellow. Moving toward ripe pears and melons with time. Several more bottles in the cellar, so we will see if time settles the wine.
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5/25/2010 - herberto wrote: 84 Points
Hmm. Didn't impress me at all this time. A slightly bitter oaky note, not a lot of fruit, flabby like so many '07 chards. A mediocre wine at half the price, a crime at $45/btl.
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5/2/2010 - smphelps wrote: 89 Points
Medium yellow with a slight cast toward olive oil. Reserved nose. Heavier in weight, leaning toward melons more than apples, but with nice acidity for balance.
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