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Landmark Overlook Chardonnay(2001)
- Winery:
- Landmark
- Varietal:
- Chardonnay
- Region:
- USA > California > North Coast
- Type:
- White Wine
- User Tags:
- oak, resinous, pome, microbiological, pear, rich, caramel, butter, spice, finesse
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June 2007
- The Overlook follows its predecessor's footsteps, impressive with its consistency of flavor and handcrafted complexity. Our winemaker has blended grapes from carefully selected vineyards from two of California's finest coastal appelations: Sonoma (86%) and Monterey (14%). The wines was barrel fermented in French oak (25% new), using indigenous yeast and went through complete malo-lactic fermentation, aged sur lie for 8 months, with gentle racking, light isinglass fining and bottled without filtration, giving the wine a well-proportioned richness and finesse that has read more...
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June 2007
- Number 79 on Wine Spectator's 2003 Top 100 Wines! Loads of rich flavors yet with a sense of elegance and finesse, with layers of ripe, spicy, apple, pear and buttery notes, finishing with lively, well-integrated acidity and a burst of flavor on the aftertaste. For this vintage of Overlook, our winemaker blended over thirty-five separate lots of carefully slected grapes from vineyards in two of California's finest coastal appellations: 78% from Sonoma Valley and 22% from Monterey's cool Salinas Valley. Overlook is a wine that is more than the sum of its parts due to the synergy read more...
- The Wine Advocate
- 90/100
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June 2007
