2015 Rivers-Marie Chardonnay Sonoma Coast

Community Tasting Notes (74) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  2/29/2024 - Seafoam Manor wrote:

  Tough to say that this was oxidized, as much as it was just old. Really golden in color and with a good dose of butterscotch... is it premox? At 10-ish years, I'm not using "pre". There's a richness and some complexity underneath so, based on some recent CT notes, this could just be the bed side of bottle variation. Regardless, I wouldn't sit on these... or forget that you had some lying around, which I am guilty of.

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  2/8/2024 - jc510 Likes this wine:

  This bottle was on ice opened 3 hours before we tasted it and it was fantastic. I kept looking at the front label thinking I opened a different bottle.

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  10/25/2022 - GoBlue2002 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A nice end to the vintage. Golden in color. Paired well with stir fry in an asian peanut sauce with lime, ginger, maple syrup.
  Drank well tonight!
  Me - 92, Wife - 93

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  5/19/2022 - GoBlue2002 wrote:

  Coravin pour.
  Again, not my favorite vintage.
  This is more on the tart/acid/bitter.
  This did not show well after a rich buttery (yet balanced) chardonnay. My wife handed me her glass to finish!

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  4/25/2022 - prasm wrote: 89 Points

  Consumed over 2 days (vacuvined and refrigerated), note from day 2. Appearance: Clear, medium lemon. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with aromas of canned pears, apricot, sour apple, and saline with subtle licorice notes. Palate: Dry, medium+ acid, medium+ body, 14.4% abv, medium+ intensity with developing flavors of red apple, apricot, flint, and nutmeg with a medium+ finish. Overall this bottle is very good excelling in complexity and length, the balance is off a bit with the tart fruit and high acid dominating. Still enjoyable, but quite different than my previous experience.

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