2013 Walter Hansel Winery Chardonnay The North Slope Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  7/15/2021 - timothynbond Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Scotch-like gold color. Loads of burnt matchstick on the nose, with some butter and a touch of honey creeping out underneath. Med-to-medium-plus body, medium-low acid. Rich thick mouthfeel, with loads of butter, dried apricots and orange marmalade on the front, picking up vanilla and toasty oak mid-palate with quite a lot of bitterness lingering through the finish. Really a mixed bag - the front palate fruit was beautiful but the finish was like an inexpensive scotch which really took away from the overall experience.

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  3/15/2020 - SMagowan Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Consistent with my prior note, this was a really nice California Chardonnay with mineral, lemon peel and a touch of butter. There was a nice background acidity and I wish I had another bottle to experiment with by laying down for an additional 5+ years. I believe this will have a long life.

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  12/19/2019 - gkrueger Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Still delicious as it was cellared properly. Shades of pear and definitely butter. Excellent.

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  5/28/2018 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Last bottle. Delicious.

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  8/6/2017 - River Rat wrote:

  On the big, buttery and rich end of the spectrum. Lots of wood on this, detracted from the rest of the bottle.

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