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| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2024 (based on 3 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 86.4 pts. and median of 86 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Elodie Grace on 10/21/2023 & rated 88 points: Enjoyed with scallops and prawns. Nothing wrong with this. (157 views) | | | Tasted by StaceyK on 2/26/2023 & rated 90 points: I like to buy also inexpensive wines to keep in my cellar and I heard this name before and figured for $11 I would try. I ended up bringing this wine to a friends house cause I didnt want to go empty handed and I liked the fact that is was a screw top. We all loved the wine. This was a wine that makes you think, why am I buying $100 bottle of wine when this was delicious. I was at a restaurant last night and the wine list was small but this wine was on the list so I ordered it and it was also so good that I felt I needed to write a tasting Note. It was def buttery, smooth, no funky taste, fruity. I have to buy more for sure. (307 views) | | | Tasted by Achromat on 6/18/2022 & rated 86 points: Lighter in weight than their 2019 but still quite nice. Fairly complex with lemon and apple notes, some tropical fruit as well. (514 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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