Good wine for the style, but not my style, personally. The nose is fairly compelling -- savory notes, some toasty (but judicious) oak. The palate disappointed me. The oak really came to fore here, looming over everything else. Good balancing acid was nice, though, and made this wine better with food than I would have thought.
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Certainly 100% malolactic fermentation with more caramel and crème brulée than butter. That said, there is no chance you could mistake this for coming from Burgundy. After that it's a pineapple fruit salad in some vanilla pudding and maybe some toasted marshmallows on the long finish? It paired well with Thai green curry chicken--but this would over power almost everything else. Says 100% full cluster and used French oak but bit light on acid for what I would expect so not planning to age these.
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12/7/2021 - geexploitation wrote:
Good wine for the style, but not my style, personally. The nose is fairly compelling -- savory notes, some toasty (but judicious) oak. The palate disappointed me. The oak really came to fore here, looming over everything else. Good balancing acid was nice, though, and made this wine better with food than I would have thought.
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9/13/2020 - gmbdds wrote: 91 Points
Bright and energetic out of the gate with melon and citrus notes. Has a touch of richness and judicious oak. Good body and acidity for balance.
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5/13/2020 - mercurius wrote: 87 Points
It's like drinking unsweetened marshmallows that were over a campfire.
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4/30/2020 - mercurius wrote: 88 Points
Certainly 100% malolactic fermentation with more caramel and crème brulée than butter. That said, there is no chance you could mistake this for coming from Burgundy. After that it's a pineapple fruit salad in some vanilla pudding and maybe some toasted marshmallows on the long finish? It paired well with Thai green curry chicken--but this would over power almost everything else. Says 100% full cluster and used French oak but bit light on acid for what I would expect so not planning to age these.
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4/21/2020 - slabslovin Likes this wine: 97 Points
Buttery, oaky, butterscotchy. Gulpable. Lucious. We loved it. Wish we had more but only bought two bottles.
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