tasted 12/8/2015. Powerful yet elegant. Beautiful rich peach & apricots on the nose finished with long toasty vanilla notes. All these flavours were evident in the palate and balanced with a long flinty note. Body was full. Drinking extremely well.
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'Nothing but Chardonnay' dinner with Peter Rosback: Under screwcap. This is Church Road’s top Chardonnay, only produced in exceptional years. For sheer scale, the Tom put all of the Australians, including the Giacondas, into the shade, making them look petite by comparison. A rich and powdery bouquet of fully ripe golden peaches, apricots, bread dough and baking spices with a lot of vanillin oak, yet to integrate. In the mouth, a ripe, rich, open textured, seemingly leesy wine, packed with plenty of fruit and prominent oaky flavour. A butterscotch finish. Huge fruit weight. Thierry had the best descriptor of the wine: ‘Baroque’. Some of our group liked it on the night but, to me, it was overdone. 1=/3.
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12/25/2020 - Waza Likes this wine: 96 Points
Absolutely fantastic, golden colour, smooth oak and vanilla, just lovely, shame its the last one.
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8/5/2017 - Sheelagh wrote: 90 Points
In wine fridge
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9/23/2015 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 92 Points
Light medium yellow color; aromatic, almond, hazelnut, nutmeg, tart pear nose; rich, tasty, creamy textured, lemon curd, almond palate; long finish 92+ points
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8/12/2015 - Mithras007 Likes this wine: 94 Points
tasted 12/8/2015. Powerful yet elegant. Beautiful rich peach & apricots on the nose finished with long toasty vanilla notes. All these flavours were evident in the palate and balanced with a long flinty note. Body was full. Drinking extremely well.
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4/21/2015 - HowardNZ wrote: 89 Points
'Nothing but Chardonnay' dinner with Peter Rosback: Under screwcap. This is Church Road’s top Chardonnay, only produced in exceptional years. For sheer scale, the Tom put all of the Australians, including the Giacondas, into the shade, making them look petite by comparison. A rich and powdery bouquet of fully ripe golden peaches, apricots, bread dough and baking spices with a lot of vanillin oak, yet to integrate. In the mouth, a ripe, rich, open textured, seemingly leesy wine, packed with plenty of fruit and prominent oaky flavour. A butterscotch finish. Huge fruit weight. Thierry had the best descriptor of the wine: ‘Baroque’. Some of our group liked it on the night but, to me, it was overdone. 1=/3.
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