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| Drinking window: Drink between 2015 and 2019 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.8 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 33 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by BURGHen Boy on 6/3/2018 & rated 88 points: A bit of heft, some peach and sweet pear. Enjoyable drinker (618 views) | | | Tasted by Anthonut on 9/3/2017 & rated 90 points: Love the slight bit of age on this Grenache Blanc. Still plenty of acidity and fruit but an added bit of savoriness. (900 views) | | | Tasted by brigcampbell on 7/8/2017: Great GB here. Slick mouthfeel, nice balance and hint of oil. (926 views) | | | Tasted by ScottGoodwin on 4/26/2017 & rated 89 points: Can't believe it's been over a year since my first bottle. Seems like yesterday. Similar experience although the tertiary notes are emerging even more. Candied ginger and spice. Lots of pear and golden delicious apple. Sneaky acidity embedded in the fruit. Med + bodied. Very enjoyable wine. (1301 views) | | | Tasted by Tim Heaton on 1/27/2017: Pours a very pale straw color. This is about stones. A hundred different types of stones. At first. as it opens, lovely, lightly bitter white fruits emerge, followed by calming floral notes. Already, I'm falling in love. There's baked peach, some unripe green apple, more stones and minerals, and this lovely, comforting blanket of strudel. On the palate, exactly as expected - lifted, fresh, honest, pure, clean. etc. As it warms, it becomes more round, more sensual, more yes. At once, a terrific food wine, and then bam!, it's the perfect aperitivo wine, too. As it warms, there's this blanketing, comforting Calvados thing - minus the EtOH. Get Larry's wines. Get lots of them. Even better as it warms a little. 13,6% abv. recommended
SnP, served non-blind. (1555 views) | | | Tasted by Chrisinroch on 10/22/2016: Again, no formal notes but very enjoyable from memory. (948 views) | | | Tasted by BobMilton on 10/2/2016 & rated 91 points: Enough body to be interesting, with slight floral notes and a hint of stone fruit. (1096 views) | | | Tasted by Birorganic on 5/29/2016 & rated 91 points: Very food friendly with lighter foods to complement each other. Complex minerals. Balanced. Tasty. (826 views) | | | Tasted by brigcampbell on 5/27/2016: Medium yellow color. Light petrol nose. All kinds of yellow tree fruit here. Very strong mineral / iron backbone emerges mid palate. Viscous mouthfeel. Good GB. (779 views) | | | Tasted by Birorganic on 3/11/2016 & rated 91 points: Delicious. Spectacular complex Grenache Blanc. (1016 views) | | | Tasted by thalver on 3/9/2016: crisp, with an expressive nose. a great summer quaffer 89-90 seems about right (905 views) | | | Tasted by ScottGoodwin on 3/5/2016 & rated 89 points: I really liked this. Unique nose. If tasted blind, I probably would have gone Loire Chenin Blanc. Got that lanolin or waxy fruit. Nose has some woody/stemmy notes that I found intriguing. Golden Delicious apple, ripe pear and some yellow grapefruit on the palate. Medium + weight. Some ginger and other spice notes. Acidity keeps you coming back for another sip. Not overly complex but enough going on to keep your interest and would make a great match with a wide range of foods. (862 views) | | | Tasted by vin0vin0 on 2/22/2016 & rated 90 points: Really liking this grenache blanc from Tercero. Golden apple and meyer lemon on the nose. This most definitely improved with some temperature as the lemon and apple began to share the stage with some honeysuckle and ripe pear. Great mouth feel, nice acidity and a medium finish. Excellent wine and great QPR! (763 views) | | | Tasted by BobMilton on 2/5/2016 & rated 92 points: Tercero BerserkerDay Whites; 2/5/2016-2/10/2016: A wonderful Grenache Blanc. Notes of Meyer lemons with a hint of stone fruit (peaches/apricots). More flavor and mouthfeel than most wines from this variety. (1294 views) | | | Tasted by boylan on 12/11/2015 & rated 90 points: Fairly full bodied, moderate acid and more floral than anything else. Well received. (756 views) | | | Tasted by boylan on 9/29/2015 & rated 89 points: Tongue coating texture. Lot more going on here than your typical Grenache Blanc. Try it with tart apples. (585 views) | | | Tasted by PIntag on 6/28/2015 & rated 90 points: Really enjoyed this at room temp. Lots of intriguing and enjoyable flavors. (574 views) | | | Tasted by PIntag on 6/2/2015 & rated 90 points: Again, this becomes more flavorful and interesting as it warms to room temperature, with some tropical fruit notes, petrol in kind of a viscous package. Funny, when it was cool right from the fridge, this had a pronounced bitterness to it which disappeared as it warmed and became a bit sweeter. (617 views) | | | Tasted by PIntag on 5/16/2015 & rated 90 points: This is a balanced white with really interesting aromas and flavors. Flavors enhance as it warms up from fridge temperature. I wouldn't put this in the "refreshing and crisp" category -- it really drinks more like a serious red wine and has some weight to it. (637 views) | | | Tasted by Spencer on 4/28/2015: A bit simple, but crisp, refreshing, and very drinkable. A great value and I could imagine going through a lot of this during the summer. (1919 views) | | | Tasted by boylan on 4/8/2015 & rated 88 points: Apple? Need a re-taste. Normally we consume whites at 57F. I think this wants a bit lower temperature. (504 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 3/7/2015: Tercero Dinner #2 in the OC with Larry Schaffer (A Restaurant In Newport Beach, CA): Shows the same aromatic consistency from the 2009 and 2011, with the diesel/petrol note. Shading of lemon, the same depth of melon found in the other two vintages and the a guava-like note. I wrote "pure" in my notes, to convey a balance and clean sensation. Like with a lot of Larry's wines last night, there is a spicy note in the finish, this one anise-like for me. (2202 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Tercero Producer websiteUSAAmerican 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 Ynez ValleyThe Santa Ynez Valley AVA is the largest wine sub-region of Santa Barbara County and has the highest concentration of vineyards. The valley runs from east to west, between the Purisima Hills and the San Rafael Mountains in the north, and the Santa Ynez Mountains in the south. Although the valley is open to the Pacific Ocean in the west, the fact that it is relatively narrow means that limited cool air and fog is funnelled in. Low average rainfall and a very long growing season make the region ideal for quality wine production.
The diverse climates of Santa Ynez Valley mean that a wide array of wines is produced. The cool, western part of the AVA is predominantly planted with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, accompanied by other aromatic white varieties. Botrytis cinerea (noble rot) is able to flourish here, allowing some outstanding dessert wines to be produced in suitable vintages. Further east, the cooling effect of the ocean is lessened as both vineyard elevation and average temperatures increase. This warmer part of Santa Ynez Valley is more suited to fuller-bodied grape varieties, such as Syrah and Merlot.
more ...s expected, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir thrive, while the more inland zones lay claim to Bordeaux varietals and some Rhone blends. |
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