Winery - La Crema
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Here’s a classically rich, barrel-aged Chardonnay. With a beautiful golden color, it brims with pineapple, golden mango and lemon custard flavors, enhanced with bright, citrusy acidity. Very fine and classy, at a great price.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rich and unctuous, with a viscous, glyceriney texture holding deep, opulent flavors of pineapples, lime custard, clover honey, Mandarin orange and cinnamon spice. Lees treatment brings a creamy, slightly sourdough tang. Good price for a Chardonnay of this quality.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s a bit of leathery funk, for those who like that, to the cherry, cocoa, cola and spice flavors of this dry, silky wine. It’s a little soft, with a smooth, polished texture that makes it easy to drink.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Shows lots of polish in the ripe tropical fruit and green apple flavors that have a baked, buttery pie crust edge. Brisk cool-climate acidity perks up these rich flavors and makes the wine clean and balanced.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A little one-dimensional, but clean and tasty, with bright cherry and cola flavors and some smoky oak. The silky texture and brisk acidity make it food-friendly, especially with something like grilled wild salmon.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a polished, really likeable Chard. It offers everything the variety should: a rich, creamy texture, brisk acidity, and ripe, delicious flavors of pineapples, apricots, peaches and kiwis coated with vanilla.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Soft and hot, almost stewed, the blackberry and cherry fruit tastes like it was mashed and microwaved. On the plus side, the wine is dry. But it’s not going anywhere. Disappointing.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
On the soft, heavy side, with flavors of baked cherries, blackberries and cola. Satisfies as basic Pinot Noir, but really lacks the substance and quality you want at this price.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is the most successful of La Crema’s three $34 regional Pinots, because it’s the fruitiest, most balanced and most satisfying. It shows expressive cherry, pomegranate, cola and spice flavors, but it’s a little soft and one-dimensional.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With complex aromas of blackberry, mushroom and beet, and an overlay of smoky oak, this wine tastes young, rich and sappy. It’s quite dry—even tart at this young age—but with a core of berry fruit and enough dusty tannins to suggest short-term aging. Try after 2002.
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