2016 DuMOL Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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  4/22/2024 - sfbikeguy Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Last bottle of this. Still pretty delicious. It's light and lively with a lot of the fruit other notes have called out. There definitely is a toasted oak finish. Given all the above, this wine can definite go a few more year. For all the CT peeps who still have this wine, hold for a fun occasion. Cheers.

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  6/18/2023 - StefanV Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Second bottle that I taste. Not bad at all. Well made but I would have expected more complexity and tension. Compareable with a subtop Burgundy Chardonnay.

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  6/28/2021 - jhbehrens Likes this wine: 90 Points

  On opening the bottle it smelled of unripe lemon and tartiness but after a 1 hr decant and some intensive aeration it gets better. Definitely not yet in it’s prime. The nose has lemon, lemon thyme, grapefruit, green tomatoe, lemon and lime peel. On the palate it’s thick with alcohol, creamy and bitter with high acidity and lemon, melon, butter cucumber, grapefruit and bitter orange. Wait until 2024 at least. It’s got class but it’s a baby.

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  4/28/2021 - jshufelt wrote: 93 Points

  Pop and pour. In the glass, clear pale-medium gold. On the nose, lemon, thyme, and a bit of oak, not a lot. On the palate, a crisp attack blossoming into a mouth-filling dose of lemon, peach, and acidity, with a long, slightly smoky finish. Still comes across as a very young wine, but it has a lot to offer.

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  1/22/2021 - Johnmscottla Likes this wine: 93 Points

  1st bottle drank of this vintage. Somewhat tight when first tasted but used aerator to open the wine somewhat and it became very enjoyable. Clean and round but not creamy. DuMol is my preferred Chardonnay and this a pleasurable bottle. I think it will age for some years and recommend allowing it to breathe well if you want to enjoy it now.

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