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| Drinking window: Drink between 2016 and 2018 (based on 29 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.5 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 15 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Ralphie1 on 8/13/2018 & rated 92 points: Wonderful! Well balanced. Nice fruit. (456 views) | | | Tasted by jerrysvino on 2/24/2018 & rated 91 points: Excellent 5 year old chard from TR. Big nose, butter, excellent flavor. (555 views) | | | Tasted by jerrysvino on 2/12/2017 & rated 92 points: Love this Chard. Buttery, oaky, with good fruit. Excellent! (708 views) | | | Tasted by DollarMenunaire on 2/10/2016: Much more marked by wood than upon release. There's some RS here too. Went better with a blueberry muffin than pasta al olio. I guess they know their market. (1057 views) | | | Tasted by danielhess on 8/29/2015 & rated 90 points: I love this bottle for the price. It is the perfect balance of oak, butter, and stone fruit all for just under $30/bottle. If it has an imperfection its that it isn't super-subtle, but for the price it isn't hot with acid nor a butterball like so many of the pleasers out there. (1277 views) | | | Tasted by TXFroggy on 5/31/2015: 30May15 RWC--acceptable but not distinctive (995 views) | | | Tasted by Fabrini on 3/29/2015 & rated 79 points: Bottle purchased at Testarossa 107 Wine bar on premises. Not much on the nose besides oak and apple-like fruit. Incredibly oaky, far more so then I would expect from Testarossa. Not much besides oak and sweet fruit flavors. THe finish is bitter, perhaps the alcohol or perhaps something else. Tastes somewhat acidic. (902 views) |
| Testarossa Producer Website 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
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
http://beveragetradenetwork.com/en/btn-academy/list-of-winegrowers-association-in-central-coast-california-274.htm
Central Coast AVA WikipediaSanta Lucia HighlandsAppellation: Wine Artisans of Santa Lucia Highlands | Winegeeks article
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