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| Drinking window: Drink between 2020 and 2022 (based on 3 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.3 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Evjoker on 3/20/2023 & rated 85 points: Mostly apple without a lot of oak or butter. It's fine. (266 views) | | | Tasted by noblerot23 on 10/28/2021 & rated 87 points: 2018 Rodney Strong Chardonnay (California)
Decent aroma of apple and toasted oak with a distant whiff of pear. Even more apple and pear on the taste with a scrape of butter too. Not the creamiest Chard in the bargain bin but still has a nice mouthfeel thanks to some soft tannins. A solid workhorse effort with in-your-face flavour that lasts longer than William Shatner was weightless. OK, this wine is about as elegant and eloquent as an elephant but for a penny pinching pensioner, it’s a lot more relevant. (582 views) | | | Tasted by Spinman970 on 4/17/2021 & rated 85 points: Worth buying again (617 views) | | | Tasted by DrNotes on 2/18/2021 & rated 83 points: Pretty blah (676 views) | | | Tasted by Dulcie and Aylwin on 8/17/2020: Looking for some low-end variations in the wine alley at Jewel: how the mighty have fallen. Dulcie proclaims this to be better than Cupcake, which is apparently her yardstick for cheap chardonnay. I admit this wine appears a lot less industrial and synthetic, and the slightly oaky aroma seems authentic. It's not bad at the price. (904 views) | | | Tasted by Achromat on 7/14/2020 & rated 87 points: This Central Coast and Sonoma blend is atypical for a chardonnay. It is not a big buttery style. It is medium bodied and dominated by apple but has some citrus as well. Good acid balance, fruit forward style. Good value. 87-88. (693 views) | | | Tasted by daver852 on 4/21/2020 & rated 89 points: Whether you like a Chardonnay or not depends largely on what style you prefer. This stuff is right down my alley. A very pronounced nose dominated by apple and oak. On the palate there is tremendous depth of apple flavors, supported by moderate tannins and a fair amount of oak. Very smooth finish. At $10 a bottle, I could drink this all day. Just outstanding value. (507 views) |
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Tom Klein
Proprietor
A fourth generation California farmer, Tom earned a business degree from Stanford and spent the first part of his career as a management consultant at the San Francisco office of the prestigious global management firm McKinsey & Company. One project during this time was evaluating a small winery in the Russian River Valley called Rodney Strong Vineyards and, in a chance meeting, he was introduced to founder Rod Strong and winemaker Rick Sayre. Already developing an interest in wine, this encounter planted a seed that would grow into a lifelong passion.
Rick Sayre
Head Winemaker
Rick began his winemaking career at the age of 19 as an assistant winemaker and cellar master at Simi Winery in Sonoma County. He had the opportunity to train under the world-renowned winemaster André Tchelistcheff, who instilled in his young trainee a deep passion for the art of winemaking and a desire to not only master his craft, but continually push the boundaries of creativity. “André taught me that a winemaker must live with his wine,” Rick recalls, “from walking the vineyards to the careful craft of guiding the wine into bottle. Even the smallest details can have a lasting effect.”
When Rod Strong decided to take a step back from the demanding role of winemaker, he called upon Rick Sayre, who joined the team at Rodney Strong Vineyards in 1979. In more than three decades in the cellars, Rick has guided the wine collection to include world-class Reserve, Symmetry and Single-Vineyard releases, an outstanding line of Estate wines and best-in-class Sonoma County wines that continue to please vintage after vintage. His voracious appetite for new winemaking knowledge has taken him around the world, including trips to the wine regions of France, Australia, New Zealand and Spain
Chardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson CaliforniaNapa Valley.http://www.stagecoachvineyard.com/vineyards/our_vineyards.php
Santa Ynez.http://www.everyvine.com/org/Camp_Four/vineyard/Camp_Four/ |
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