2014 DuMOL Chardonnay Estate Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  10/18/2022 - mflesh wrote: 92 Points

  Solid estate wine. This wine has come into its element and is a full bodied, rounded wine. Poured a medium straw color to the glass. The entry of this wine has some mildly sharp acidity, yellow honeysuckle and Asian pear with a hint of oxidized yellow fruit to the middle and finish. Finishes with some herbal structure, more of a grippy finish that actually paired extremely well with homemade chicken stew. This wine is showing the slightest bit of age right now but it really seems to add another layer of complexity more than anything else. DuMOL is certainly a top 5 Chardonnay producer for me, and these wines show the complexity and depth and structure that is capable from an 8 year old Chardonnay from the RRV. Drink or hold.

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  7/1/2022 - oldwines Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Double decanted right before taking to a local restaurant. Better bottle than previous one about 18 months ago. None of the reductive and smoky notes I saw in the last bottle, just a refined balanced wine with bright acidity, lemon and lemon curd notes on the nose and palate and a good deal of mineral notes throughout the mid-palate and finish. The cellar age seems to have been beneficial. I really enjoyed this with a deviled egg appetizer and some gazpacho. This seems to be in a really good spot right now but is certainly still vibrant and lively and likely will be for another few years at least in a good cellar.

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  6/4/2022 - jkoenen wrote: 95 Points

  Even improved after 2 hrs of aeration.
  Really beautiful, quite elegant and mineral.

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  4/2/2022 - jshufelt wrote: 92 Points

  Consistent with previous tasting note.

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  1/2/2022 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Pop and pour. Faint citrus on an otherwise non-descript nose. Like my last bottle, there’s more steel and minerality than the butter and oak on a typical Cali Chard. As OLDWINES noted, this comes across more European than New World. That being said, it’s enjoyable but I’m struggling with the QPR.

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