2017 Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay Prelude

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 90.4 points

• Options

  • View lbrooks's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/8/2022 - lbrooks Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Nose: A little lemon and pear
  
  Taste: a really velvety pale lemon with a bit of sweetness. It has a great finsh.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View acyso's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/14/2021 - acyso wrote: 88 Points

  Saturday hangout (Chicago, IL): The nose has a mild bit of reduction and a relatively generous hit of oak. This doesn't have the same weight as the Art Series (I didn't know where this stood in the Leeuwin hierarchy until looking this up as I wrote this note) and while there is the requisite acidity, there's a thinness on the palate that makes this a relatively simple wine.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View gbejjani's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/21/2021 - gbejjani wrote: 91 Points

  green apple, vanilla, flowers, perfectly fresh for a warm afternoon

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View HolyBejeesus's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/8/2020 - HolyBejeesus Likes this wine:

  I don't have tasting notes and I'll reserve rating this wine, but it was definitely enjoyable and reasonably priced.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View bvivio's profile
  • Report Issue

  8/5/2020 - bvivio Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Appearance: pale lemon, green highlights, medium+ tearing, no rim variation, no gas evidence.
  
  Nose: clean, medium+ intensity, youthful, lemon, tangerine, green pear, yellow apple, green pineapple, white flower, wet stone, clotted cream, bread dough, smoke, caramel, toast, vanilla.
  
  Palate: dry, high acid, medium+ alcohol (13.5%), medium+ body, medium+ intensity, medium+ finish, lemon, tangerine, green pear, yellow apple, green pineapple, white flower, wet stone, clotted cream, bread dough, smoke, caramel, toast, vanilla.
  
  Overall: A really nice Chardonnay with some riper fruit aromas of pineapple/tangerine alongside some more restrained citrus, some subtle florality, and a good amount of lees- and oak-driven secondary notes. On the palate, the wine has surprisingly high acid keeping it super fresh, and pointing to a long life ahead, especially considering the balanced alcohol and solid intensity. Really tasty now, but I see this wine getting even better with a few years more of bottle age. Great value!

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

View all 9 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.