Donelan Genevieves Block Chardonnay 2017

Donelan Genevieves Block Chardonnay 2017

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  • Robert Parker rating 95
  • Vinous rating 94
Donelan Genevieves Block Chardonnay 2017
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HED03390

75 cl

14.5%
£95.00
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The 2017 Donelan Genevieve`s Block Chardonnay is a powerful yet vibrant Sonoma Coast wine, sourced from a tiny, cool-climate, west-facing parcel within the Devoto Vineyard. Exhibiting a style that balances the richness of Californian Chardonnay with a European-like tension, this wine offers complex notes of white flowers, lemon confit and crushed rock minerality alongside warmer tones of toasted hazelnut, crème brûlée and baking spices. The 2017 vintage saw a deliberate blocking of malolactic fermentation and reduced lees stirring, resulting in a medium-to-full-bodied wine with a silky, creamy texture, a core of ripe orchard and white stone fruits, and a long, textured finish charged by tangy acidity.
95 Robert Parker
The 2017 Chardonnay Genevieve`s Block is from a vineyard of only about 900 vines. It was fermented and aged in 30% new oak for 11 months. Malolactic fermentation was blocked this vintage, and lees stirring was lessened, due to the nature of the vintage. On the nose, it opens with notes of toast, graphite and toasted hazelnut over a core of warm yellow apple, white blossom, red apple skin and white stone fruits. Medium to full-bodied with a great silky/creamy texture, it fills the mouth with wonderfully ripe tree fruits, nutty character and a wicked vein of crushed stone minerality, charged by tangy acidity and finishing very long and textured. Lovely! 169 cases were made. - Erin Brooks
94 Vinous
The 2017 Chardonnay Genevieve's Block Devoto Vineyard is an attractive if somewhat idiosyncratic wine. A strong element of reduction adds freshness, energy and complexity. White flowers, lemon confit and crushed rocks abound, and I very much like the wine's vibrancy. I would open the 2017 well in advance to allow the reductive notes to blow off. Readers who don't enjoy reduction in Chardonnay will find more pleasure in other wines in this article.Antonio Galloni1st May 2019

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