Columbia Crest Grand Estates Chardonnay (Columbia Valley (WA))

Ficha técnica

Tipo

White

Uva

Chardonnay

País

United States

Região

Columbia Valley (WA) · Columbia Valley

Denominação

Columbia Valley

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201586 pts

  Light aromas of apple and pear lead to broad dry flavors. It delivers easy-drinking appeal.

• 201487 pts

  Pineapple and mango aromas mix with notes of baking spices. The flavors show a fine sense of balance, tapering toward the finish. It's oak driven at times but provides a lot of enjoyment.

• 201388 pts

  The oak makes the largest impression on this wine, with the notes of vanilla and butterscotch out in front of apple and apricot. It's creamy in feel, trailing slightly toward the finish.

• 201288 pts

  Intensely oaky, buttery and creamy, this lush style also shows ample acidity, keeping the richness in check. It's big and borderline blowsy, but packed with flavor.

• 201188 pts

  For lovers of lush, buttery Chardonnay, this is the one to seek out. Generously toasty barrel flavors complement spicy pineapple fruit. It's forward, full-bodied and ready to drink now.

• 201086 pts

  An uneasy mix of steel and butter, this may just need a bit more time to settle. At the moment, the twin elements of metal and popcorn clash and compete. For those who love the buttery style, this should prove pleasing.

• 200886 pts

  A fuller, richer, more broadly fruity version of the winery's Two Vines offering, this crowd-pleasing Chardonnay slathers the palate with buttery brioche, apple and Asian pear. A little more acidity would help; give it a chill to compensate.

• 200786 pts

  As comfortable as an old shoe, the Grand Estates Chardonnay from Columbia Crest delivers broad, open flavors of buttered fruit – almost like biting into a slice of apple pie, crust and all. Hard to argue with it, all 160,000 cases strong.

• 200687 pts

  The Grand Estates Chardonnay from Columbia Crest is consistently the most broadly fruity, round and oaky wine in the lineup (outside of the much pricier reserve). Apple, pear and peach fruit dominates, and the sometimes too-present, tarted up flavors of butter and vanilla have b…

• 200586 pts

  Big, bold, and buttery, with plenty of oaky micro-popcorn flavors. Don't look for subtlety, but you get plenty of flavor.