Isole e Olena, Collezione Privata Chardonnay, Toscana IGT
Isole e Olena · Tuscany › Toscana › Italy
Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
92
/100
Reviews
8
professional
Vintages
No vintages
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Community Reviews
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91.5
Avg Score
94
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Taster #1281
· Dec 18, 2023
Just another Monday night with C&L (Sterndale) : Stunning. Even G loved, describing it as both 'delicious' and 'complex.'
2016 vintage
Taster #0483
· Nov 6, 2022
92/100
Very rich, concentrated and buttery, almost too much, but with suitable food this works well.
2016 vintage
Taster #3167
· Sep 18, 2022
94/100
Wow! This has grown into something special. Green gold in the glass with a real sparkle. Elegant but slightly piercing nose gets you ready for a long rounded superbly balanced chardonnay with very long aftertaste. It has got more expensive but if it were Pul Mont ( which is what is tastes like) it would be up there with the best Crus and so stratospheric price. Just wonderful! In a great place now and I wouldn't leave based on 2014 …
2016 vintage
Taster #1281
· May 1, 2021
90/100
A post-lockdown weekend with friends; 5/1/2021-5/3/2021 (Copse Hill, Lower Slaughter) : Consistent with previous, white peaches and oak, really love this but it always feels too strong. With gnocchi in pea veoloute.
2016 vintage
Taster #1281
· Dec 19, 2020
I continue to love this - white peaches and oak - but, at 14%, it is strong and so steely - it can feel like a headache in each sip.
2016 vintage
Taster #7792
· Jun 10, 2020
91/100
Puligny-esque, yet its' own thing. Dry peach-mineral-woody-herbal-saline; faintest touch of the the matchstick on the finish. Excellent food wine.
2016 vintage
Taster #7464
· Jun 8, 2020
94/100
Wow. So well balanced and so long. Fresh, smooth and creamy. Apples and pears and some “minerality”. Really like this.
2016 vintage
Taster #1281
· Nov 21, 2018
90/100
Big (fruit, oak, alcohol) but all in balance & v enjoyable.
2016 vintage
Taster #1281
· Aug 13, 2018
‘A Tuscan Journey’ tasting menu (Tuscan Bistro, Il Borro, Tuscany) : VG, well-oaked with good balance, energy. A bit high alcohol (14%)
2016 vintage
Taster #8492
· Apr 14, 2018
90/100
Académie des Cinquante Tuscany Tasting (Buitenplaats Amerongen / Restaurant Bentinck, Amerongen, NL) : Very well made Chardonnay in a modern style, ripe fruit, rich but fresh, lovely complexity, lots of savoury oak, especially on the slightly resinous finish, very good length. Competent but slightly anonymous.
2016 vintage
Taster #6466
· Nov 1, 2017
91/100
Quite rich and creamy on the nose - ripe stone fruit, flowers, minerality. On the palate buttery and generous, overall well balanced though with good acidity and an attractive mineral backbone. Good length. 90-91+
2016 vintage