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Chalk Hill Botrytised Sémillon (Chalk Hill)
Chalk Hill · Sonoma · United States
Fact sheet
- Type
- Other
- Grape
- Sémillon
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Chalk Hill · Sonoma
- Appellation
- Chalk Hill
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- high
- Sweetness
- sweet
Food pairing
sobremesas à base de frutas · queijos azuis · crème brûlée · tarte tatin
Rated vintages
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201190 pts
The color of decades-aged Chardonnay, medium-to-dark straw, this dessert wine is rich in toasted almonds and hazelnuts, with secondary flavors of baked apple and stone fruit. Mouthfillingly rich, it remains balanced and complex, lingering on the finish in baking spices.
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200995 pts
This is absolutely delicious, offering heady waves of orange marmalade, butterscotch candy, crème brûlée and honey that are wildly opulent. This is a go-to bottling for very sweet, unctuous California dessert wines.
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200595 pts
This is one of the sweetest white California dessert wines out there. It's addictively decadent, like an upscale Sauternes. Barrel fermentation in new French oak gives an opulent, palate-flattering honeyed vanilla richness to the apricot, peach, pineapple and crème brûlée flavor…