Taste: 3/5
Value: 3/5
Price: $12.99
This is my second bottle from my wine club gift from my wonderful husband (which he extended for my birthday). This was better the first day, but lost quite a bit by the second, which is the reason for the moderate rating. The wine comes from the Lafage Estate in the Languedoc-Roussillon region (the largest wine growing region in the world) on the appellation vin de Pays de Cotes Catalanes. The vines that produce this wine are 30 years old, growing in deep, rocky soil. Thirty percent of the grapes are barrel fermented with the balance in stainless steel; the aged 3 months on viognier lees.
89 points wine advocate..."The 2007 Novellum Chardonnay (already reviewed in issue 178) – from two sites with cobbled and alluvial soils, and 30% barrel-fermented – boasts subtle and alluring aromas of white peach, toasted almond, hazelnut, flowers and fine herbs. In the mouth, it offers an uncanny balance of lees-enriched creaminess with lightness of touch and refreshment. (The lees here included those of Viognier.) This lingers with a refinement and suggestions of minerality that many a Macon selling for up to twice the price would envy." Reading this, seems like I should like it more than I did!
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