Norman Hardie, County Chardonnay, Prince Edward County

Norman Hardie · Ontario › Prince Edward County › Canada

White · Chardonnay

Critics

88 /100

Reviews

professional

Vintages

No vintages

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Community Reviews

Reviews

88.3

Avg Score

Highest

Drinking nicely. Buttery flavour, vanilla, toasty, apples, lemon curd. Medium acidity.

2016 vintage

This is my first time trying wine from this winery—some age on this Chardonnay. The aroma has hints of flint, apple, dried grass, turpentine, and a touch of white flowers, all very subtle. The finish brings citrus, oak, and candied ginger flavours. After two hours, the finish became longer, and the wine developed more body. The lady of the house enjoyed it more.

2018 vintage

Golden yellow color, perfumy apple peel aromas, minerals and chalk. A little bit buttery popcorn on the palate (maybe a bit too much oak for my liking), but nice acidity and minerality.

2018 vintage

Waxy, leesy, yellow apple nose with subtle sweet spice notes. Medium-bodied with good freshness and balance; doughy, ginger notes on the finish. 4/5

2018 vintage

Notes prises de mémoire un mois plus tard. Cet excellent chardonnay est maintenant à son apogée, et est tout à fait délicieux. Nez complexe, minéral et présentant des arômes de citrons bien mûres ainsi que de fruits jaunes, et de pâtisserie ainsi qu’une touche fumée, signature des vins de Hardie. La bouche suit et danse sur la fine ligne entre la sucrosité de ce fruit et l’acidité bien franche du County. Superbe, ce vin est l’exemple parfait des vins de …

2016 vintage

Probably should have opened this a year ago, smooth fruit and gentle buttered toast, and it tastes of the County, but lacking the acidity that would have made it a better match for Cedar Planked Salmon with a maple-soy glaze and a creamy spring fettuccine.

2016 vintage

Très boisé.

2017 vintage

very mineral, concentrated, ripe golden apples, apple skin, a bit of oak, slightly bitter finish. Phenolic and flinty with fresh acidity.

2018 vintage

The wine looks yellow colored. The legs are medium. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells like black pepper, lime and lemon. It tastes like black pepper, grapefruit and lemon. The body is medium. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity.

2017 vintage

Vin blanc avec une belle droiture et un soupçon de pêche blanche. Le vin est persistant en bouche quoique discret au nez. 89 sur 100.

2017 vintage

Gone bad, changed colour

2016 vintage

Light-golden colour. Medium body. Medium acidity, apple and toasty oak.

2016 vintage

Seemed a bit...muted. Maybe I've come to expect too much from Hardie. This was fairly textbook. Excellent chard qualities. Nothing too much. Delicious texture. The word that comes to mind when I think Hardie is tensile strength and this has that. Finish on this was a bit modest and wasn't as sculpted but still very nice.

2017 vintage

Lovely Burgundian style with a range of classic Chardonnay flavours from Meyer lemon to apple, creamy and mineral with a long tropical fruit finish.

2016 vintage

Nose dominated by petrol with notes of apple pie, lemon zest and wet stone. Far from the creamy California Chardonnay. This wine is light and acidic. Palate is apple, lemon, lime and minerality.

2016 vintage

Prominent nose (exuberant for a chardonnay) of baked apple and pineapple. Ripe apple, tropical fruit, brioche, leesy, a touch of vanilla. All that being said, this reads more as "flashy old world" than "heavy new world." A hint of reduction and core of mineral lead to a broad, fleshy, viscous, and savory finish. This is a perfect example of inherently rich chardonnay and not an oaked monstrosity. The balance within the ripe vintage prevents cloying elements. Very nice. Interestingly the …

2016 vintage

Highly aromatic nose is flinty and toasty with ripe apple, vanilla, and lemon aromas in a slightly reductive profile. It is medium-bodied on the palate with crisp, clean acids and reductive in style with more lemon, mineral, and poached apple flavours. Long, persistent finish that shows some of that famed County minerality.

2016 vintage

Light yeasty/toasty aromas, with some stone and mineral. Lemon but not overpowering. Drinks like a very young chablis.

2016 vintage