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Monticello Vineyards/Corley Family Napa Valley Corley Reserve Chardonnay(2005)
- Winery:
- Monticello/corley Family
- Varietal:
- Chardonnay
- Region:
- USA > California > Napa > Oak Knoll
- Type:
- White Wine
- User Tags:
- oak - heavy, acidic, futures, white grape, chardonnay, bright, france, settle, romanian cheese, oily
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Source:
Appellation America Wine Portal
- This reserve offers bright complex aromatics along with the influence of toasty, spicy new French oak.
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Source:
Appellation America Wine Portal
- Amongst the challenges, when tasting a wine for review, is to determine – guess, would be the more accurate term – if the wine is ready now or in the distant future; and by extension, how far a future? One rarely has to do that these days with a Chardonnay from California, since as with the current state of affairs of our society, things are made for <i>now.</i> But this Chardonnay is different. It’s an anomaly in that it’s made for the long haul. The first part of the assessment is rather straightforward. There are some oak and tropical fruit aromas and the wine is lush and thick. read more...But here’s where the difficult part comes in: I suspect there’s good acidity back there someplace, but all the oak, the voluptuousness and the ripeness of the fruit at the moment is superseding the acid. Will the latter ever emerge? Thus, don’t even think of drinking it now, unless, of course, you love this unctuous style. Otherwise, hold onto it for two to three years when I believe it will begin to settle in, open up and the aforementioned hoped-for acidity crawls out into the brightness. If that’s the case, the wine will age for a good 15 years. The wine was barrel fermented and aged in French oak, 50 percent of which was new. The listed alcohol is 14.1 percent, and there were but 267 cases produced. (hide)
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Source:
Appellation America
- Amongst the challenges, when tasting a wine for review, is to determine – guess, would be the more accurate term – if the wine is ready now or in the distant future; and by extension, how far a future? One rarely has to do that these days with a Chardonnay from California, since as with the current state of affairs of our society, things are made for <i>now.</i> But this Chardonnay is different.It’s an anomaly in that it’s made for the long haul. The first part of the assessment is rather straightforward. There are some oak and tropical fruit aromas and the wine is lush and thick. read more...But here’s where the difficult part comes in: I suspect there’s good acidity back there someplace, but all the oak, the voluptuousness and the ripeness of the fruit at the moment is superseding the acid. Will the latter ever emerge?Thus, don’t even think of drinking it now, unless, of course, you love this unctuous style. Otherwise, hold onto it for two to three years when I believe it will begin to settle in, open up and the aforementioned hoped-for acidity crawls out into the brightness. If that’s the case, the wine will age for a good 15 years. The wine was barrel fermented and aged in French oak, 50 percent of which was new. The listed alcohol is 14.1 percent, and there were but 267 cases produced. (hide)
