2014 Heinrich Chardonnay Leithaberg

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  10/6/2021 - François1986 wrote: 87 Points

  Robe Or dorée d'intensité moyenne.
  
  Nez servis frais de pomme blette, caramel et qui en se réchauffant se rapproche d'un style Bourguignon assez sympathique.
  
  Bouche sans artifice.

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  6/6/2020 - Kellerkind Likes this wine: 90 Points

  It’s true, this is having a hard time, right now. Serious stink bomb, no fruit, smoky. It takes about a day of air to open up and tend towards the beautiful complex balance the 2015 has. I‘ll come back to this in a year or two and hope for the best.

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  5/28/2020 - forceberry wrote: 84 Points

  A biodynamic Chardonnay. Macerated for a few hours with the skins, fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts, aged on the lees for 19 months in 500-liter oak barrels. Bottled in mid-May 2016. 12,5% alcohol, 1 g/l residual sugar and 6,3 g acidity.
  
  Medium-deep yellow-green color. Moderately reductive and slightly weird nose with a prominent streak of popcorn. Not the buttery aromas, but the notes of roasted kernels, followed by lighter nuances of leafy greenness, some cabbage juice, light grainy tones, a hint of crunchy white fruit and a touch of pomelo. The wine is medium-bodied and somewhat lean on the palate, feeling as though the wine is only barely ripe. Flavors of popcorn kernels, some fresh golden apples, a little bit of crunchy quince, light smoky notes of reduction, a hint of toasty wood and a touch of grainy malt. Overall the wine feels quite nervous and a bit austere. Noticeably high but not aggressive acidity. The finish is fresh, tangy and somewhat lean with medium-long flavors of saline minerality, some tart green apples, a little bit of lemony citrus fruits, light toasty oak tones, a hint of sappy greenness and a touch of gunpowder smoke.
  
  A crisp, lean and quite electric Chardonnay with a slightly green character that makes one wonder if the wine is actually fully ripe. The wine never comes across as aggressively austere, vegetal or anything like that, but compared to the beautiful 2015 vintage that was tasted alongside this, the vintage 2014 comes across as rather nervous and underwhelming. Furthermore, the weird, grainy and non-buttery note of popcorn in the nose was not perhaps what I'd really look for in a Chardonnay. This was something of a let-down.

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