2008 Ata Rangi Chardonnay Craighall

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  1/31/2019 - Jon and Bek Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Hand picked, bunch pressed, barrel fermented with wild yeast and 12 months on lees in old French oak. Yellow-straw colour. With air, nose has toffee, mandarin zest, and pineapple. Palate is rich and full, rounded with fruits (peach and pineapple), toasted nuts and smooth acidity, with a very long caramel finish. Superb Chardonnay, worth ageing, still going strong at 10 years.

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  11/26/2017 - dexterng wrote: 92 Points

  This is definitely Premier Cru quality. Very burgundy. Color is golden and a taste of oak and fruit, with a feel of butterscotch. It is not too late to enjoy but I don't think it will improve much more.

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  7/26/2016 - LindsayM Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Gotta love a good Mendoza Chardonnay
  
  Nice complexity on the nose , tropical fruits , grilled nectarine and more on the palate ,excellent balance between fruit and tannins, and a clean acidity keeps it crisp, cashew nuts and a silky feel on the long finish
  Overall only 40% MLF which provides a nice crispness to the wine almost Chablis like . No hurry to drink the up
  
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  Hand-picked fruit was whole bunch pressed in a Willmes membrane press. Unsettled juice was fully barrel fermented in Burgundy barriques (22% new) using indigenous yeasts. Lees stirring was employed for enhancing complexity and vinosity. Fermented 15-20 oC. Malo-lactic inoculation for all barrels and Malo-lactic (ML) ferment stopped at appropriate flavour and balance; for this vintage around 40% ML.
  Aged in barrel on lees for 9 months.

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  3/13/2016 - LindsayM Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Love a good Mendoza Chardonnay
  
  Nice complexity on the nose , tropical fruits , grilled nectarine and more on the palate ,excellent balance between fruit and tannins, and a clean acidity keeps it crisp, cashew nuts and a silky feel on the long finish

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  8/1/2015 - Pverd wrote: 86 Points

  Funky reduced nose. Rich palate with nice minerality but lacking complexity. Rich and fresh but pretty and down. Nothing to write home about

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