2017 Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains

Community Tasting Notes (40) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  3/10/2024 - TobbeVin wrote: 93 Points

  Eye: deep garnet
  Nose: M, cassis, tomato leaf, dark fruit, plum, smoke, coffee, chocolate
  Mouth: acidity M+, tannin dry M+, int M+, body M+, alcoholic heat, cranberry
  Finish: long, elegant, a little acidic with a alcoholic heat
  A little youthful, it is a wine for the future

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  2/12/2024 - mvande21 wrote: 93 Points

  One hour decant. Golden yellow. Pear, yellow apple, vanilla. Medium/full bodied and smooth with vivacious acidity. Paired well with shrimp pasta dish. I'll give longer decant next bottle.

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  1/25/2024 - diffwine Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Bumped this down a couple from my last bottle. Had over two days. Day 1 this was very different from every other bottling I’ve had. Lots of ripe tropical fruits and they overpowered every other element.
  
  Day 2 was better first half of the first glass was similar to day 1. Then it opened up more, last glass being the best. Minerality came out the fruit shared the stage and the oak felt more integrated.
  
  I still don’t like it as much as the others, but it’s a really good bottle of cali Chardonnay when you can find it for $35-$40. Still a good amount of runway left too.

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  1/22/2024 - gmbdds wrote: 91 Points

  Golden yellow, no oxidation. Judicious but notable oak. Citrus and more tropical fruit. Deftly walks the line of rich, oaked and acidic, fresh Chardonnay.

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  8/9/2023 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine:

  Reiterate my note from a year ago, and add an exclamation point. This has continued to deepen, lengthen and balance since then, and I’d now score a point better (94-95+). Nothing to indicate that this won’t hold, and even improve just a bit, in the short to medium term. Tastes are personal for sure, but I put this right there with any CA chard that doesn’t have Mark or Luc’s name on the label, including the more expensive (and far more praised on CT) offerings from Peter Michael, Kistler (I’ll admit that I haven’t had enough of these to feel totally confident in my conclusion), VV, Ramey and Maxem. If you can get this in the range of $40, it’s larcenous, but even at full retail of about $60, this more than pulls its weight.

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