Cloudy swirls inside this unopened bottle, I was hesitant to try and waited for the right opportunity. Juanita whipped up some pollo en mole' causing me to decant this liquid through a filter. Wine's colour is apple cider. Esters more like a fino flor rather than anticipated acetic notes which there was none. A maderized wine, tasting more like a fino sherry than anything else. Additionally a hint of paint solvent aroma, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Wine finishes dry, with no sourness whatsoever. Certainly an eyeopening oddball wine that most would send back, whereas I would simply order another. I hesitate to check the box concerning "flawed or defective," perhaps this taster is a bit deranged?
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on opening had slight tang to smell, some oak, plenty of fruit on palate plenty of fruit, some oak, slight sharp bite, but after 20-30 minutes the bite dissipated and was replaced by a mellow buttery flavor
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10/9/2007 - queneau wrote:
Cloudy swirls inside this unopened bottle, I was hesitant to try and waited for the right opportunity. Juanita whipped up some pollo en mole' causing me to decant this liquid through a filter. Wine's colour is apple cider. Esters more like a fino flor rather than anticipated acetic notes which there was none.
A maderized wine, tasting more like a fino sherry than anything else. Additionally a hint of paint solvent aroma, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Wine finishes dry, with no sourness whatsoever. Certainly an eyeopening oddball wine that most would send back, whereas I would simply order another.
I hesitate to check the box concerning "flawed or defective," perhaps this taster is a bit deranged?
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1/19/1993 - dbg wrote:
on opening had slight tang to smell, some oak, plenty of fruit
on palate plenty of fruit, some oak, slight sharp bite, but after
20-30 minutes the bite dissipated and was replaced by a mellow
buttery flavor
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12/14/1990 - dbg wrote:
honey & apples in nose, very fresh & forward bouquet. Rich, buttery,
fruity taste with excellent finish. A best ever chardonnay
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9/1/1990 - dbg wrote:
excellent bouquet with intense fruit aromas
concentrated fruit flavor, good finish
a top chardonnay
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5/10/1990 - dbg wrote:
very rich, buttery, honeyed, touch of oak: consistent with last
bottle
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