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The July 2018 Internet-Only Auction Part 1
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Lot 4557
Estimate: $60
1 Nicked, lightly scuffed, lightly bin soiled labels.
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JG
"The 1986 vintage was the only one where a chardonnay was produced by the Leightons from the Matthau Vineyard in Potter Valley. At thirty years of age, this wine has entered into a very exotic, tertiary stage of development, as it offers up an idiosyncratic nose of walnut, gentle notes of orange peel, salty soil tones and some lemony aspects that remind me of wines aged under flora. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and impressively fresh and vibrant, which comes as a bit of a shock, after the relative dearth of fruit elements remaining on the nose! The wine is plenty deep and has good length on the well-balanced finish, and has simply moved onto a stage of complexity beyond fruit, but still with plenty of life in it."
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