{"id":8375,"date":"2023-05-07T07:55:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winefolio.co.nz\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2023-05-07T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:56:22","slug":"morton-estate-three-vineyards-chardonnay-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winefolio.co.nz\/?p=8375","title":{"rendered":"Morton Estate \u2018Three vineyards\u2019 Chardonnay 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I last tasted (and reviewed) this wine three years ago in January 2020. Now time to open the last bottle and see what\u2019s happened over the ten years in the cellar. The colour is a golden-green, quite vibrant and deep. On the nose I get ripe citrus, peach, incense, acacia, melon and honey. There\u2019s an odd tart bite of bitterness immediately on the palate &#8211; like where there was a touch of reductivity and flint, this has hardened into a mineral tang that isn\u2019t appealing. 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