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| Drinking window: Drink between 2014 and 2017 (based on 33 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.8 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 14 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tim m on 12/29/2014 & rated 92 points: Very nice Cali chard. Not over the top American style. Really balanced and long. (1947 views) | | | Tasted by lovanc@outlook.com on 12/1/2013: Fruit forward but with good acidity and medium weight. (43 views) | | | Tasted by tim m on 11/27/2013 & rated 91 points: Really nice, old world style. (2498 views) | | | Tasted by Racer117 on 7/6/2013 & rated 91 points: This beautiful golden color mates perfectly with the full bodied nose and flavors. There's honeysuckle, pineapple, lemon oil, and some balanced toastiness. Overall richer and more buttery than a comparable Burgundy counterpart, this is really pleasing. A near perfect match with Enterprise Fish Co.'s almond crusted Rainbow Trout. Yum! (2708 views) | | | Tasted by Dagalaifus on 4/28/2013 & rated 91 points: This cooler climate Chardonnay is pale straw in the glass with a nose of honeysuckle. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied with lemon, vanilla, the same honeysuckle and notes of oak and butter. The malo, however, is restrained and the flavor profile is more Chablis than California. It's as good as the stellar 2010 SRH Chardonnay. Excellent QPR at around $20/per bottle.
As an aside, Lafond has one of the most beautiful tasting rooms and winery locations in the Santa Ynez Valley. (2823 views) | | | Tasted by ksde on 2/18/2013 & rated 92 points: A well balanced Chard! Nice acidity with a plush rich palate. A touch pineapple essence on the nose with just a hint of lemon. This Chard is full throttle in several dimensions. I liked it even more as it warmed up some. A zesty wine. (2688 views) |
| Lafond Producer website
Located in the western Santa Ynez Valley, the Santa Rita Hills AVA is an ideal environment for growing intensely flavored full-bodied Chardonnay.
The AVA is distinguished by the very cool and long growing season created by a convergence of unusual geography in this part of California. Our southerly latitude means that frost danger is usually behind us in February of most years.
This leads to early bud break, which can start the growing season as much as a month earlier than growing regions to our North. During the summer, heat rising from the Mojave Desert 90 miles inland and the eastern boundary of our unique east-west system of mountains and valleys draws in cold air from the Pacific Ocean 15 miles to our West.
This guarantees cool days and chilly nights during the long growing season of the nine-mile length of the Santa Rita Hills AVA.
A blend of four neighboring vineyards, the 2006 Chardonnay SRH is winemaker Bruce McGuire’s selection to showcase the ripe, concentrated Chardonnay for which the Santa Rita Hills is known. Bruce had each vineyard block picked as the fruit ripened about three weeks later than average to the late date of Nov. 5th.
This wine is a good choice to pair with many cows’ milk cheeses such as Brie or Camembert and, as a nice surprise; the fantastic washed-rind triple-creme Cow Girl Creamery Red Hawk. Richer foods such as roast chicken or whole, farm raised striped bass are also ideal pairings.
This bottling will reward aging through 2012 and promises to be quite showy through 2016.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 Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
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