{"id":17462,"date":"2017-04-08T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T19:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=17462"},"modified":"2017-04-08T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T19:39:07","slug":"a-couple-of-lovely-chardonnays-kutch-and-bachelet-monnot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/california\/a-couple-of-lovely-chardonnays-kutch-and-bachelet-monnot","title":{"rendered":"A couple of lovely Chardonnays: Kutch and Bachelet-Monnot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070131-500x327.jpg\" alt=\"bachelet monnot\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070131-500x327.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070131-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070131-400x262.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070131.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Had a couple of lovely Chardonnays side by side: one from Burgundy, the other from the cool Sonoma Coast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bachelet-Monnot Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Referts 2011 Burgundy, France<\/strong><br \/>\nLemony and taut, this has a lovely bright mineral quality to the crystalline citrus fruit. It&#8217;s beautifully expressive with crisp lemon fruit with well integrated acidity. Very pure and developing nice and slowly, with finesse and some structure. Not a big wine, but a pretty one. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070128-500x315.jpg\" alt=\"kutch\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070128-500x315.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070128-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070128-400x252.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P4070128.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kutch Chardonnay 2015 Sonoma Coast, California<\/strong><br \/>\n12.7% alcohol<br \/>\nVery fine, lemony and assertive on the nose, with delicate matchstick notes from nice reduction. The palate is linear and precise with really tight, lean, but full flavoured lemon notes. It&#8217;s beautifully taut and expressive with keen acidity that&#8217;s struggling a bit to integrate now, but which will in time. This is so pristine and taut and offers lots of promise for the future, but it&#8217;s also edgy and enjoyable now if you like this reductive style. I love it. 95\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a couple of lovely Chardonnays side by side: one from Burgundy, the other from the cool Sonoma Coast. Bachelet-Monnot Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Referts 2011 Burgundy, France Lemony and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,36,65],"tags":[379,368,380],"class_list":["post-17462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burgundy","category-california","category-chardonnay","tag-burgundy","tag-california","tag-chardonnay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17466,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions\/17466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}