2006 Sine Qua Non Chardonnay Mr. K The Noble Man

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  2/25/2024 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 95 Points

  DC Dinners and Tastings; 2/24/2024-2/26/2024 (Washington, DC): Preserved peach, preserved melon, buttered popcorn, caramel on the nose. High intensity of aromas. Flavors are pretty consistent with the aromas, but the palate adds a bit of preserved tropical fruit in addition to the stone fruit from the nose. It's mostly driven by the corn and caramel flavors. The two minute long finish on this is in the running for the longest finish I've ever had on anything.
  
  Medium + body with amazing medium + acid which is shocking for both the age and variety (Chardonnay). Excellent pairing with "fudgie the whale" (chocolate ice cream cake). Wonderful to drink now; but will live on for years.

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  10/15/2023 - Rosengoo wrote: 90 Points

  This very slightly cloudy wine was rust orange in colour and had an unusual (for this wine) nose of wax, smoke and some babd-aids. In the glass were flavours of apricots and honey. The finish tailed off quite quickly on this today. I do love these wines but this bottle has showed better in past tastings.

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  4/4/2023 - Papies wrote: 95 Points

  The return to The Ledbury, (The Ledbury, London): Concentrated and big but with impressive harmony and balance and put a proper smile across the table. Rich, apricots and stone fruits, honey, young still and with full on bright acidity across that keeps the wine in balance. A hint of candied ginger to finish and give it an easy 95 in our view and with a lot of life ahead.

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  11/14/2022 - indiscriminate palate wrote:

  This made a Selbach Oster TBA had along side it seem like a feather-light drink of water. Pours like motor oil, with caramel, toffee, and some stone fruit drowning beneath the viscous botrytis jam. Ridiculously sweet, though somehow with enough acid not to be cloying. This isn't about charm, or subtlety, or depth of thought, it's just a bruiser that--admittedly--is much easier to drink than I initially thought it would be due to the acidity that carries through the finish. Is this "good" wine? I don't know--I guess the talent to balance a super-saturated sugar solution with enough acid to dispose of a body is quite the feat, but I'm not sure it's a worthwhile one.

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  7/12/2022 - Rosengoo wrote: 94 Points

  This wine was clear and rust in colour. It had a nose of honey, caramel and some citrus. It the glass were flavours of honey, caramel, peach and and apricots. The viscosity in this was very evident and this was a lovely sweet wine.

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