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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 213 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by scottmlew on 5/6/2018: It is almost disturbing how well this wine is STILL drinking. Still very buttery with a little bit of pear and a hint of apple. I'm sad to see my last bottle go. (2403 views) | | | Tasted by sylviap on 11/16/2016: The last of our 2007 Rombauer Chardonnay. Very buttery and with hints of ripe pear. Still drinking nicely, surprisingly. (3464 views) | | | Tasted by scottmlew on 3/7/2015 & rated 91 points: Still my favorite chardonnay overall. Very buttery, with nice lemon notes. Long aftertaste. Still drinking nicely, which is somewhat surprising. (5381 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 6/2/2014 & rated 89 points: A benchmarch for the big, round, buttery style that we have moved away from. (5715 views) | | | Tasted by Tmjdoc on 12/26/2013 & rated 94 points: Fantastic chardonnay. The best and buttery (6153 views) | | | Tasted by Tmjdoc on 12/25/2013 & rated 94 points: Fantastic chardonnay. Very buttery.great taste (4837 views) | | | Tasted by Tmjdoc on 12/8/2013 & rated 90 points: Smooth Buttery Best Chardonnay. Golden in color and great aftertaste. (3628 views) | | | Tasted by Tmjdoc on 12/1/2013 & rated 92 points: Wonderful wine. Smooth and buttery. Decanted and then refrigerarted. The Best Chardonnay I've had. (2412 views) | | | Tasted by arp46 on 11/9/2013 & rated 88 points: A lovely wine in the CA style of Chards - oaky, buttery, full of ripe melon and even some lychee; and a finish that emphasized the minerality that served as a the backbone of this wine, with hints of grapefruit and a lovely acidity that lingered on the palate. A thoroughly enjoyable wine - perhaps worth a slightly higher score, but, the CA style isn't really where I turn for chardonnay. (1880 views) | | | Tasted by Tmjdoc on 11/2/2013 & rated 85 points: I know it was a year past it's drink date. I decanted it for an hour and then re-refrigerated it. It was still a great wine. It was creamy, and buttery and a hint of Butterscotch.
Of course I will try and drink my other Rombauers before the drink by date. (1379 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 5/28/2013 & rated 87 points: The rich oak flavor that I once enjoyed I now find heavy and cloying. (2146 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 3/5/2013 & rated 90 points: This manifests the full, round, buttery, oak, citrus and vanilla style California chardonnay. (2427 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 1/23/2013 & rated 89 points: Big, rich and oaky. (2552 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 1/4/2013 & rated 90 points: Paired very well with Thai stir fry. (2584 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 11/29/2012 & rated 88 points: A throwback style - big and rich with heavy oak. Once upon a time I loved it. Now I find it cloying. (2725 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 10/5/2012 & rated 89 points: Did not appreciate the big, rich, oaky style as much this time around. My style preference has changed and/or this bottle has become even richer, and almost cloying, with age. (2488 views) | | | Tasted by mukden on 1/25/2012 & rated 90 points: YES please. Drank this a few times in Napa; have never seen it in Europe. Was really impressed, beautiful classic fruity chardonnay with a nice creaminess. Real chewy. Lovely. (3707 views) | | | Tasted by marcw23 on 1/9/2012 & rated 91 points: Very rich and delicious classic Cali chard (3798 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 1/2/2012 & rated 91 points: Rich, rich, rich - mouth filling flavor, with good acidity and structure. One of the best of the "big" California chardonnays. (3511 views) | | | Tasted by JustJenn on 12/31/2011 & rated 78 points: Buttery, first sip-bite, pear (3494 views) | | | Tasted by brigcampbell on 12/31/2011: Say what you will, this is a great wine. Color is turning dark golden and a pea green which is very obvious. Nose is apple and butter. Palate is big buttery popcorn with apple and acid substitutes for salt. You can hate this style, never mistaken for a razor sharp white burgandy, but screw them, this blazes its own trail. The drinking window is to short at '11, still lots of life ahead. (3297 views) | | | Tasted by Vin Rouge on 12/2/2011 & rated 95 points: Wonderful as usual- nicely paired with crab and french bread! (3406 views) | | | Tasted by bin905 on 10/12/2011 & rated 90 points: Rich, full and buttery. (3811 views) | | | Tasted by Fpgdoyle on 4/27/2011 & rated 92 points: Yup, at the Vineyard. (5139 views) | | | Tasted by TPB on 3/30/2011 & rated 91 points: Nose is apples and vanilla, with a hint of toasted bread. Butter and lemon on the palate in nice balance with some tropical fruit in the finish. Very nice. Good balance of fruit and oak. (5116 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
|  By Gary Vaynerchuk
Wine Library TV, Carneros Wines Picked By A Facebook Fan, Episode #635 (3/4/2009)
(Rombauer Carneros Chardonnay) #3; VaynerPAZZZ; COLOR-medium golden; NOSE-no denying the oak & buttered popcorn; w/ sliced apples; TASTE-the butter bandit is here; goopy and over bearing, but an interesting wine; good acidity on the mid-palate, but very goopy on the back-end; I like it; it's a nice Chard, but I feel I can get this buttered oak play for $13-15 Chards; I'm perplexed why this is so popular; GV-87 87 points |
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| Rombauer Vineyards Producer websiteChardonnay 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 Napa / SonomaSONOMA: The Yorkville Highlands AVA, approved in 1998, is located in the southwestern corner of Mendocino County, between Sonoma County's Alexander Valley to the South and Mendocino County!s Anderson Valley to the North. The region is 25 miles long, roughly in the shape of rectangle and bisected by Highway 128 which runs the length of the AVA. The region!s terrain is hilly and forested, with elevations ranging from 1,078 to 2,442 feet above sea level.
The distinguishing features of the Yorkville Highlands AVA are rocky soils with a high gravel content and the climate, which is cooler than Alexander Valley but warmer than Anderson Valley, and significantly cooler at night than the surrounding areas.CarnerosStraddles the southern ends of Napa & Sonoma Counties. |
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