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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.6 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by pgrzesik on 1/11/2019 & rated 90 points: Brought this wine to a BYOB restaurant in central Massachusetts and paired it with Vietnamese food. Looking back on my previous note, I had this wine almost 1 year ago to the date.
Still a really big fan of this wine. Drinks very much like a Chablis versus a big powerful California chardonnay. The palate is rich with notes of stone fruit, lemon butter, and some ever small hints of oak. The palate is still rich, good acidity, and a decent finish. My previous note still applies, has not changed much over the 1 year, but feel that it has started its gentle decline. Rather interesting I tasted a hint of wet cardboard towards the tail end of the bottle when it had been at room temperature for ~1 hour. Was a little off putting, but nonetheless quite enjoyable. If you have this wine, drink up. (610 views) | | | Tasted by LT98 on 12/16/2018 & rated 92 points: A very Burgundian wine for the New World, and especially for California. Great minerality, notes of acacia, wildflower, citrus. Wonderful balance. Judicious use of oak. Terrific. (568 views) | | | Tasted by Vinomnivore on 11/19/2018 & rated 92 points: Punches above its weight, citrus fruit verging on tropical with nice acid and mineral component. Drinking well with greater balance than I anticipated. (552 views) | | | Tasted by pgrzesik on 1/20/2018 & rated 92 points: Pop and pour. I poured this wine into the glass and allowed it to develop over the next hour.
Visually it appears a very light yellow, almost like a sav blanc. However, on the nose it shows lots of creamed butter, meyer lemons, granny smith apples, and hints of almond. Really pleasant.
When this wine was served cool, it was rather subdued, however, when it warmed up to room temperature it really was flavorful and elegant. Good acidity, nice warm taste, and a decent finish. This wine reminds of drinking a nice young white Burgundy. It definitely has the structure and "oomph" to stand up to France. This wine is probably just reaching its peak now, and will continue to reward you if you drink it over the next 5 years. (739 views) | | | Tasted by Mrjtjs16 on 4/6/2016: Notes of citrus, apple & coconut; really like this as it warms. I would definitely buy again if I could find it. (1413 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Santa Barbara: On the Road (Aug 2015) (8/1/2015)
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Gavin Chanin winemakerChardonnay 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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