2016 Peay Vineyards Viognier Estate

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  3/25/2024 - Panurge Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This winery's bottling has always been a very "different" take on this varietal: no heavy fruit, very dry, more acid than warmer-climate fruit.
  
  Eight years after the vintage, this bottle has little of the tropical fruit typically associated with vigonier, but it never really had much of it. It was bracingly acidic (mostly malic?) and that lingers on the finish. The mid palate is complex yeasty, wet slate...reminiscent of a well aged vourvrey sec, but not as many flavor components (i.e., less complex).
  Very long mouthwatering acidic finish.
  
  A very nice wine for those of us who like whites with some age on them. Glad I slept on this bottle.

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  4/9/2023 - rosenst1 wrote: 90 Points

  PnP. Medium light gold. Honeysuckle on the nose. Good acidity on the palate. OK but perhaps too old.

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  11/4/2020 - Mortgage92 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drink now or within one year.

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  6/8/2020 - jbaron wrote: 89 Points

  Tart but nice.

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  10/27/2019 - silton wrote: flawed

  From last winter and just now clearing out of inventory.

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