| Winery: | Pahlmeyer |
| Location: | Oakville (Napa Valley) California |
| Wine : | 2006 Chardonnay, Napa Valley |
| Appellation : | Napa Valley AVA |
| Price : | $65 to $75 |
| Color : | Green – gold. |
| Nose: | Smoky, burnt almond, orange peel, botrytis ‘marmalade’, fresh cut hay, burnt caramel. Butterscotch, cream Bruleé, browned apples, bananas, roasted pine-nuts. |
| Palate / Balance / Flavors: | Mouth is rich and full, seems high in alcohol, moderate acidity. Buttered popcorn and smoked oak, a light continual astringency and light bitterness of oak tannin. Our guess is Napa Chardonnay |
| Style: | Style-driven. No faults in this wine at all, rich and oak based. Going for maximum richness and sweet / browned character over fruit. A triumph of winemaking over fruit character (maybe that’s too harsh, but definitely an example of a wine that was ‘made’ as opposed to ‘grown.’ I know that a lot of people really love this style of Chardonnay – I am a white burgundy guy at heart though…) |
| Analysis: | 14.4% Alc, 3.67 pH, 5.5 TA, 0.0 ML, 1.0 g/l rs(FOSS winescan) |
| Comments: | 95 pts Robert Parket (Wine Advocate,) 90 points Jim Laube (Wine Spectator,) 90 points Steven Tanzer – We tended to agree most with Robert Parker’s assessment that this is a baked and spice wine with astringency and smoke, but we aren’t sure about the score bit. 3,000 cases produced. |
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