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| Drinking window: Drink between 2021 and 2023 (based on 3 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.8 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by mark.gularte@gmail.com on 11/16/2022 & rated 89 points: Outstanding QPR on a bottle that regularly sells for sub $10. Full mouth feel with notes of lemon and apple, some oak, pineapple on the finish. Outperforms many $30 offerings. (463 views) | | | Tasted by sduraybito on 4/9/2022 & rated 90 points: Great QPR. Clean, with apple, a hint of toast and smooth finish. Buy it anywhere near $10. (640 views) | | | Tasted by Achromat on 2/4/2022 & rated 90 points: This wine is in keeping with their older vintages, with a rich nose of oak, Meyer lemon and spice. Nice body and fruit richness as well. One of the best values in Chardonnay, at $7.50. Upgrading to 90 points after a recent tasting. A rich and powerful wine. (700 views) | | | Tasted by Woodbridge Brad on 12/9/2021 & rated 84 points: Decent value Chardonnay, not too oaky, modest citrus nots ripe (823 views) | | | Tasted by ElJefeTX on 7/28/2021 & rated 87 points: Pale yellow hue with aromas of yellow apple, peach, lemon peel and a touch of butterscotch. Firmly acidic and medium bodied, the palate a slight creaminess with notes of lemon, pineapple, key lime, spice and pie crust. Nothing memorable but certainly above average for an affordable Chardonnay. (893 views) | | | Tasted by The Drunken Cyclist on 7/15/2021 & rated 90 points: Retail $17. Under screw cap. While this is listed at $17, it sells for a shade over $10 at retail. At that price? This is a steal. I have been telling the fine people at Rodney Strong that their wines are too inexpensive--few wine writers take a ten buck Chard all that seriously (particularly with a generic "California" appellation). But Justin Seidenfeld has once again proved his worth to the brand with a wine that really over-delivers. A bit of golden hue to the pale straw with aromas of lemon curd and oak (albeit subtle). The palate really is surprising, shocking, even. This really shows as a wine 3-4 times its price with rich citrus, an integrated degree of "butter" and a measured hand with the oak. Sure, it is closer to a "traditional" Cali Chard than the popular "unoaked" style, but this really is delicious.
http://www.thedrunkencyclist.com (635 views) | | | Tasted by Glenn Gilbert on 3/14/2021 & rated 87 points: 13.5% alcohol; screw top; medium to long legs, lemon yellow; the wine was opened at approximately 18 degrees C; even the metal bottle cap has a faint whiff of fruit, the wine itself much more so; besides generic fruit and alcohol, there are notes of citrus and peaches; this Chardonnay was tasted within 5 minutes of opening; tannins are subdued on the surface but operate powerfully in the background with sourness and minerality crowding out sweetness and bitterness; little to no evidence of malolactic secondary fermentation (buttery taste); the medium to long finish continues the same balance of components; pair with hors-d'oeuvres cheeses or salted nuts, or with dessert cheeses (421 views) |
| Rodney Strong Producer website
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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