2011 Loring Wine Company Chardonnay Sierra Mar Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90 points

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  9/22/2016 - timewithwine wrote:

  What an enticing color: not really golden, but not really peach, yet something in-between that captures the eye and invites conversation. Ripe golden delicious apple with yeast, tropical fruits, peach, butter and cream are all inhaled with every whiff. Along with every molecule of those flavors can be found orange blossom and kiwi. The finish is long and creamy. The wine is balanced, but the level of alcohol does begin to tire the palate a might by the end of the meal. 14.9% alc. (!) With roasted halibut under a crust of walnut, herbs and crumbs. Recommended leaning toward Highly Recommended (but for the alcohol).

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  2/22/2014 - timewithwine wrote:

  The nose on this ia room-fillingly huge. You can detect the bouquet from several feet away with its apple, baked apple spices, lychee nut and vanilla. The richness of the color foretell and create an expectation of huge flavors. Brian Loring delivers on the flavors in big package of lemon cream, apple pie, butter, hazelnut and vanilla. The mouthfeeling creaminess is bold with massive fruit and weight. Some yeasty-pie crust flavors blend with the vanilla to complete the very long finish. The layers of flavor and complexity are truly something to savor. No idea where this wine will go, but why wait? It’s too good now not to enjoy. 14.9% alc. With a shellfish (clam, scallop and shrimp) stew in a curry-cream sauce. Highly Recommended.

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  7/26/2013 - timewithwine wrote:

  An excellent wine as always. With seafood risotto (scalops, mussels and shrimp) at the Bistro wiith the Fords.

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  6/8/2013 - timewithwine wrote:

  Oh my freakin’ goodness! If the 2010 was intense then this makes the 2010 look wimpy. This is eye-poppingly good. The flavors are of a rich and weighty lemon custard topped with a touch of honey. Other notes of cream kissed with vanilla. Somewhere in there is baked apple and apple pie crust. The mouthfeel is large, round and filling. Just as with the 2010 “the richness causes you to let the wine linger and roll back and forth; its weight is like mercury.” Such an inviting wine that ‘s difficult to put down. 14.9% alc. With seared scallops in a sun-dried tomato cream sauce. Highly Recommended.

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  4/3/2013 - MJTed wrote: 90 Points

  Full bodied and rich, with ample acidity. Apples, pear and lemon zest with some caramel on the finish. Maybe a touch big for food.

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