2013 Millton Chardonnay Opou Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  2/17/2018 - Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Brief note only, tasted at the annual NZ Trade Tasting London 2015
  
  Nose was oddly mute; light-medium body only; nice fresh acid, some good long flavours and power. Not overly oaky, happily.
  
  RR price £17.00.....is worth that - just.

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  10/18/2016 - Callum's Corkers wrote: 86 Points

  approx £16 at Ministryofdrinks.com, UK
  Screw cap. Tasted well chilled, October 2016.
  
  Good perfectly accepable correctly made, but not outstanding Gisborne chardy. I expected a wee bit more. By most accounts the (much) more expensive Clos St. Anne label Chardonnay is by some distance a better wine.
  
  2013 is a 'forward' vintage in this part of the North Island, and I agree with that having tasted this again.
  
  C....pale straw. At 3 yrs I expected it be deeper, but no big deal.
  
  N....Not much, if I'm honest: bit of wood, some apples and caramel, pretty insipid/boring.
  
  T....a lot of sweet oak and ripe fruit, a bit simple. Good enough, but I expected more. not thrilling, no seductive, not complex, nor charming. Med-dry. Short.
  
  I need to bite the bullet and buy some Clos St. Anne, shouldn't have stopped off at this cheaper label.
  
  VFM?....probably won't buy again.

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