2018 Rhys Blancs de Blancs Bearwallow Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  12/20/2023 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Popped and poured. Still very youthful. Wonderful showing with orchard fruit, sea breeze, a little biscuit coming through. This shows excellent sophistication and will no doubt continue to develop and possibly increase in score.

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  11/11/2023 - Wine_Poobah Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Consistent with prior notes, but more fresh and crisp than I remembered. The fruit was more sweet pear and apple this time, but still tons of vanilla. Not super complex, but tasty. If you want a fresh and crisp BdB this is a solid choice.

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  7/15/2023 - oldwines Likes this wine: 94 Points

  All American Chardonnay Tasting (New Jersey, USA): This is a really beautiful sparkling wine. Yeasty but balanced with bright acidity and layers of complexity including lemongrass, lime pith, pear and minerals. Long and complex. Gorgeous!

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  4/16/2023 - VAGenius Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drank during Cornbowl planning so couldn't give it a lot of focus. Quite dry with a nice mousse and flavors of toast, yeast, and lots of mineraity. Quick bite of acidity followed by tart lemon and apple on the finish. Seems likely to improve a bit. 91+ points.

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  3/11/2023 - Wine_Poobah Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Enticing aroma with notes of vanilla, tropical fruit, peach, meyer lemon and yeast. Tropical fruit flavor with a lemon and mineral finish. Extremely fine mousse. A lovely expression of Chardonnay. Decent balance between steely, tight, and minerally; and fat, rich and generous.
  
  Slightly tart and alcoholic at first but opened up nicely with air. Fairly priced for this level of quality - it would be more expensive if it was Champagne.

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