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| Drinking window: Drink between 2016 and 2020 (based on 28 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by cweiner on 5/6/2022 & rated 94 points: Why did I not buy more. Love it. (295 views) | | | Tasted by cweiner on 1/22/2021 & rated 94 points: I have been waiting 3y. Well worth the wait. My favorite in the COVID year. (324 views) | | | Tasted by mschonholz22 on 2/9/2020 & rated 92 points: Good combination of body and acidity. Drink Now. (441 views) | | | Tasted by bravo.solares on 5/8/2019 & rated 91 points: Needed to make some room in my wine lockers for some new purchases, so I grabbed this bottle - which I ideally would have liked to cellar for 3 more yrs or so. Still young, with little development - although the oak was well integrated and not in the way. I quite enjoy Auteur’s Chards - the PN’s less so. Inhibited malolactic fermentation, restrained oak treatment, and quality fruit make for a wonderfully balanced wine. Nice palate and nose - tropical fruit notes, esp. pineapple, coupled with great acidity and a definite hint of salinity keep things fresh. Very enjoyable. Too bad I don’t have more so I can drink it once it is more developed. (595 views) | | | Tasted by cweiner on 11/3/2018 & rated 90 points: First bottle and perhaps still a year or so best before consuming. When cold, almost astringent but came to life a room temp.
I will be patient. (741 views) | | | Tasted by bravo.solares on 11/2/2018 & rated 91 points: Nearly identical to the bottle I had on 1/27/2018. Still very young. Will try to cellar my remaining bottle for 2-3 more yrs or so. I have had good luck with older Auteur Chards with some bottle age, including the Durell bottling. (374 views) | | | Tasted by bravo.solares on 1/27/2018 & rated 92 points: Still young. Unabashedly new world, and CA in particular, but balanced thanks to good acidity. Inhibited ML, and detectable but not over the top oak treatment. Very enjoyable, but should become more interesting and complex in 3-4 more yrs - at least for those who enjoy aged Chardonnays. Will revisit in 2021. (545 views) | | | Tasted by bravo.solares on 8/17/2017 & rated 91 points: Excellent Chardonnay for my taste (usually not fond of most CA Chardonnay). Inhibited malolactic fermentation, restrained oak treatment, and quality fruit make for a wonderfully balanced wine. Nice palate and nose - tropical fruit notes, esp. pineapple, coupled with great acidity and almost a hint of salinity keep things fresh. (499 views) | | | Tasted by VAGentleman on 1/8/2017 & rated 88 points: This isopod enough, not particularly impressive. Some pineapple over olive oil and butterscotch but kind of thin. Better as got air and warmed up toward room temperature. (762 views) | | | Tasted by smphelps on 2/3/2016 & rated 88 points: Light gold. Tropical nose shows pineapple, ripe pear and honey. Weighty with high viscosity. Medium length. (975 views) |
| Auteur Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeDurell VineyardOriginally planted in 1979 by Ed Durell, this famous vineyard is located in the southwestern foothills of the Sonoma Valley, north of the San Pablo Bay and east of the Petaluma Wind Gap. The site is characterized partly by its Region II climate, where conditions are moderated by the Bay and the Pacific Ocean effects, making it ideal for cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes. The rocky, volcanic soils at Durell Vineyard create a challenging environment for the vines’ root system, yielding very small grape clusters that have tremendous concentration and power.USAAmerican 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma Coast * Sonoma Coast AVA (Wikipedia)
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