Morlet Family Vineyards

La Proportion Dorée Sonoma County Sémillon Blend 2018

9.4

Last bottles from a 6-pack. I had two bottles that were sadly riddled with EA, but the other four were sound.

This was one of the wines I served for my annual WWC hosting. All wines served blind.

65 semillon/ 34 Sauvignon Blanc/ 1 Muscadelle

Always love these, more so than most domestic Bordeaux Blanc style white wines, mostly because of the texture. Straw color in the glass. Quite the tropical aromatics (white peach, mango) but it’s not overpowering. The barrel ferment is apparent with the rounded profile on the palate…the vein of acidity that was there a few years ago is fading, so this showed even more opulent than normal. Honeyed lemon, guava, orange blossom but a backbone of sea salt and herbs snap the structure in place to show nice balance and a nod to Bordeaux. I’d recommend popping now and over the next couple years to enjoy the freshness. — a day ago

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Somm David T

Found of Luc’s craft.

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

Top 5 fave CA white wines.

Mount Mary

Triolet Sauvignon Blanc Sémillon Muscadelle 2018

Benjamin Hickey

9.5

Really nice - lovely aged flavours from the sem. Acid is perfect and moorish — 4 months ago

Clos Floridene

Graves Blanc White Bordeaux Blend 2020

Todd Brooks

9.3

White peaches, hint of lemon zest, slight acidity with nice nose that has a little oak. Very nice. — 6 months ago

Château Coutet

Sauternes-Barsac Sémillon Blend 2022

Amanda Drazka

9.6

This beautiful Sauternes offers a sweet nose of dried apricot with a full body on the palate. It has notes of tangerine, honey and spice with a velvety, long finish. — a month ago

Chambers Rosewood

Rutherglen Muscadelle

Doug Powers

9.3

[Half-bottle] This lovely sweet orange peel and apricot Australian Muscadelle is a great stickie for dessert with some Junior’s Gooey Butter Cake from Costco, long finish, still miss our couple of visits with Bill Chambers at the winery (first in 1989)!! — 3 months ago

with Jim

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Tom Casagrande

Ooooo nice! Love the old school Aussie stickies!

Bob McDonald

@Doug Powers A good pull Doug. That would have been a mouthful of intense flavours.

Doug Powers

@Bob McDonald, my wife and I met Bill Chambers back in 1989, he actually took us outside the tasting room where they kept the AMAZING super old vine stickies and let us taste them — his comment then was “that nice Mr. Parker has really increased the demand for our sweet wines with his kind words” — those top end wines all those years ago drew us back a couple times already, and it’s 14+ hours in the air from the West Coast (CA)!!!

Château Palmer

Vin Blanc de Palmer Vin de Table White Bordeaux Blend 2021

Andrew McIntyre

9.2

Nice experience but not worth the money. Strong initial funk that eventually gave way to some fruit. Silky mouth feel but so many better wines for less money. — 9 months ago

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Doug Powers

Wow @Andrew McIntyre, I never knew Palmer was doing a blanc!?

Andrew McIntyre

@Doug Powers yes but its not your traditional white Bordeaux and more a somewhat random cuvee. Like i said: nice to try and experience but wouldnt necessarily recommend