2006 Kistler Chardonnay Durell Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (69) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  4/30/2022 - Rhone Rick wrote:

  Well past peak… if you have any left, drink them & arrange for backups in case they are undeinkable.

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  9/28/2019 - Rhone Rick Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Surely at or just past peak, showing aged notes but still packing a full palette of traditional Chardonnay fruit and a base note of leather and oak.

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  5/1/2019 - Schwarzer Hund wrote:

  gold yellow color, lemon and apple/pear nose after 30 minute, mostly grassy apple/pear fruit, hign minerality, short to medium finish. Wine was decent with roasted cod but past its best drinking window in our opinion.

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  4/30/2019 - mflesh wrote: 92 Points

  Really enjoyable chardonnay. Might be a touch past prime but this is drinking rather well. There's a lot of controversy about "aged Kistlers" not really keeping up with some of the other higher end chardonnay producers. When you drink wines like this, you're inclined to just throw all that information out the window. Lots of aged notes, herbal, asian pear, a little citrus and I believe that based on what I was tasting that it probably had more citrus at one time, but not so much now. Finish was very vibrant. Wasn't really rounded...lots more minerality than I was thinking it was going to have. Still quite nice.

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  5/5/2018 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 86 Points

  The last bottle of a case I have enormously enjoyed over the past 5 years - opened and drank slowly over several hours watching English Premier Laague matches live at home.
  
  Distinctly mature yellowed gold colour. Nose is lemon-flavoured boiled sweets, distinctly burnt creme brulee, slightly sweet old ladies' talcum powder....all very tertiary. Palate is initially very rounded but then breaks out into its component parts of charred oak, barley sugar, rich honeysuckle and overall just moving towards a slight cloying-ness as its more youthful acidity is no longer there. Still quite resonant and reverberant but I'm pleased that i have not kept this final bottle any longer.... I have really enjoyed this wine over so many years but now it's time to move on to the 2009 and 2010.

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