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87POINTS
15¾/20
Tinhorn Creek Chardonnay 2017
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaFrom Black Sage Bench's sandy soiled Diamondback Vineyard, and 21 year old vines, this was primarily whole cluster pressed into French and American oak barrels (30% new) and allowed to go through fermentation naturally, while a portion of the wine is machine harvested and fermented in stainless steel with selected yeast. By November, the winery's two new concrete tanks had arrived, and the wine was then aged one third each in oak, concrete and stainless steel for the next six months prior to being lightly fined and filtered before bottling. Full bodied and ripe with pineapple, yellow apple, melon, baked pear and ample nutmeg spicing and butterscotch swirling on the finish. Old school, ever edging forward.Tasted: 16 January 2019Tasted by: Prices:| BC | $20.99 | 750ml | winery direct, private retail, restaurants |
Grape: ChardonnayCSPC: 5301691UPC: 624802981017
