Found June 2011
It's not often that you get a chance to talk with the winery owner a few days after trying a bottle of his wine, but that is just what happened here: I tried this bottle on a Sunday and (by happenstance) was speaking with Tom Pennachetti about it the following Friday. My findings on this wine were very poor, but there were a lot of unknown factors to me before I acquired this bottle. It was given to me by a friend who `found` it their basement. The friend in question did not have proper storage for the bottle and has moved a number of times in the interim. Needless to say the bottle was questionable at best. I opened this bottle up with a number of wine-loving friends and they were excited to sip on a bottle of 13 year old Ontario Chardonnay. The cork was crumbly and ended up falling into the bottle, after filtering enough of it out to get a proper sample we found the smells and flavours to be off-putting, tertiary in nature with little sign of fruit; there was some butterscotch and vanilla notes but it all got lost in the heavy oxidative and maderized flavours of the wine. When I told this to Tom he said he had tried a bottle not too long ago and his experience had been much better, but then again (he pointed out) his bottle had been kept under pristine cellaring conditions. A bottle this old will show signs of its adventure to your glass, and this one`s adventure was dodgy at best. Lost & Found Rating: Trash (though possibly not the wines fault)
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