2014 DeLille Cellars Chaleur Estate Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (76) Median Score: 92 points

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  3/15/2022 - RDB Wine wrote: 50 Points

  March 15, 2022. Drank from Bin East 24 with Aline, Emma and Cory. Spice caramel nose. Sparkling medium yellow. Medium body spice then dry stone oak finish. Fruit gone. Past prime. 3/10.

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  6/12/2021 - pinoteer Does not like this wine: 79 Points

  Someone threw fresh grass clippings, lemon juice, and cat pee in a blender, hit frappé, and filtered the resulting slurry into a bottle. No, that's not a good thing. Just someone's twisted concept of what good SB should taste like.

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  1/29/2021 - Ron Slye wrote: 92 Points

  I feel like I am drinking a different wine than some of the reviewers here. I just really like this year after year. I was afraid 2014 was too old, so opened my one and only bottle. It is strong and excellent, and will clearly go for many more years. Lovely lemon, with some tight tart acid and lanolin, hints of tropical fruits (passion fruit, for example). This is just such a delicious wine, both on its own and with food. Compact and rounded mouth feel. Lovely.

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  1/18/2021 - pinoteer Does not like this wine: 82 Points

  Opened another bottle to serve as cooking wine. It's most, and only, satisfying use, IMHO.

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  1/18/2021 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 89 Points

  Deep yellow color. A nose of honeyed, graham cracker, ginger cake tones with sea salt, candle wax, over lemon and papaya. Rich texture, with generous yellow apple and plum fruit, topped in honey, graham cracker and nougat. I would like a bit more acidity, but it still shows clean, mineral, mountain stream and floral tones. The texture and fruit are delightful, a bit more acidity and I think this could age further, but I'm glad I drank it when I did.

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