Do you guys ever really check out the wine as it sits in your glass or do you treat it like a soda, just pour it and drink it? I myself love checking out my wine in the glass because every once and a while there is beauty. Sometimes the wine itself can not even be to my liking yet the appearance of it in the glass is just awesome. Yes, of course when looks & taste combine it does help lead that wine to a higher score and therefore more enjoyment as well. I have to admit, for me, it is rare for a white wine to really have me say something about it's appearance but when it does happen, it is amazing. I actually can't recall the last time a white wine really struck me visually but I have hope that today's wine will do just that so let's take a look at it and do a tasting.as well while I am at it.
Today I will be checking out the 2021 Vineyard Block Estate 847, Reserve - Chardonnay. I bought today's review
wine at a local chain liquor store named ABC Fine Wine & Spirits
and I paid $17.99 for it. The bottle is cork sealed and the grapes for
the wine come from the Santa Barbara County AVA. As a last
note,the
alcohol percentage comes in ag 14.5%.
On the nose here I am picking up notes of a slight bit of lemon melange and really, that is all. I will however give the wine a bit to warm slightly and come back to see if the nose will develop at all. So...coming back to the wine an hour later there is unfortunately nothing different to talk about. This is a very simple wine on the nose.
As far as the palate is concerned, I am getting that lemon Melange here as well and right now at least, it isn't bad at all. Hopefully as the wine warms a bit this note will be able to maintain itself right where it is as I have found in the past that this note can ruin a wine very quickly at times. Acidity here is on the high side throughout the wines presentation and begins from the minute the wine hits the palate and continues onto the finish which is rather long. This acidity does however cause the wine to be just ever so slightly out of balance. I was looking for some fruit to stand up to it but unfortunately there is nothing to quite match it or tone it down/cover for it the bit that is needed. Don't get me wrong here guys, the acidity is not crazy out of whack but that tiny bit is noticed, at least by me anyway. Green apple is here for sure and it jumps on that lemon melange note. Adding to these two notes is the typical and certainly troublesome oak/vanilla combo note that American Chards are known for. So...how is that note here? Well, let''s talk. I do not typically enjoy this note...hard stop. Keeping it real here guys as always, that note is here, big time and I continue to not like it as it is over the top here. I am not sure why American Chardonnay producers like to deluge their wine with oak/vanilla rather than structured fruit or minerality.
If your soil can't grow the Chardonnay varietal than don't grow it, it's okay, there are other grapes to grow. Moving on now, white apricot is here as well and it is integrated nicely. This apricot tries its best to make its presence known and does a decent job at it. Guys, I have to stop drinking this wine, it is just bad. Let's get to the conclusion paragraph and put this review out of its misery.
Look, a lot of people drink a wine with food and determine if the wine meshes with that particular food. I drink a wine and only the wine, I am not interested in how a particular wine interacts with food, I care about the quality of the wine. I want to find out how the wine represents its varietal and nothing more. I guess you could say that I have a very simplistic look at wine reviewing. This wine is typical repackaged bulk wine and nothing more. For $17.99 I could do much better. and so could you. In the end this wine is a dime a dozen. On The Desert Wine Guy rating scale I am giving this wine 87 points. I do not recommend you buy it for any reason.
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