Tasting Notes
Vinous 92
The MV Chardonnay bonkers zombie robot alien monsters from the future ate my brain (sur lie) is a blend of the 2022 and 2023 vintages. The 2022 fermented in small barrels of new and used oak and the 2023 fermented in used 600-liter barrels. The two were then combined to start a solera system, but part of it was bottled as this wine with a deliberately outrageous name. Yeastiness blends with melted butter on the nose but also offers a seductive whiff of reduction. The palate adds its inherent saltiness, but the driving force, the very heart of this, is its absolute freshness with dynamo-like energy.
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2035
Wine-Pages.com 93
The first still wine from sparkling wine maestro Dermot Sugrue and his wife Ana is as quirky as its name. It is in fact the first issue of a solera of Chardonnay, the 2022 component aged in small barrels, the 2023 in large barrels, with a proportion made in an oxidative style. It displays a flinty, herbal character but elegantly smoothed by almond and creamy ripe, honeyed apple. The palate shimmers with vibrant sherbet lemon and ripe grapefruity vivaciousness. It has a flinty drive and freshess, a bittersweet ripple of citrus, the finish long and intense like a blood orange straight from the freezer.
