Availability: Direct from winery here
Cost: $26
Alcohol: 13.5%
Date Tasted: July 3rd, 2013
Tasting Notes: The Anarchist Mountain Vineyard site has long been supplying grapes for other wineries but the latest owners, Andrew Stone and Terry Meyer Stone have decided to hold back some fruit and thrown their hat into the ring with this single-vineyard Chardonnay. The East Bench vineyard has an elevation of 1700 feet overlooking Osoyoos and produces aromas of opulent orchard fruit, sweet citrus, cool minerals and light spice. The palate offers good continuity from the nose with a pleasant texture and mouth-watering acidity, though, the oak program comes on a bit strong.
Overall, this gold-hued Chardonnay shows great promise for future releases from the Stone family, as the winemaking team get their oak and secondary fermentation program dialed in. This edition will benefit from further aging thanks to the mature vines (planted in 1985) who's fruit will stand-up to the caramel notes that will develop over the new 3-4 years. Drink 2015-2017+.
- Liam Carrier ©copyright 2013 IconWines.casmooth toasted oak
Thanks for the review Liam, we quickly threw five cases into our 'Library' to make sure we still had some in 2017 instead of drinking it all! Andrew did some revisions to oak in 2012, will be interesting to see the results.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Terry Meyer Stone