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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tward on 7/13/2020 & rated 90 points: No notes, but this was very nice, well balanced, not shy, plenty of nice ripe orchard fruit with a firm structure and tension. Drinking very well right now and seems like it could go out several years more. A second glass+ (~6oz) kept in a smaller bottle (~9oz) drank even better several nights later. That should tell you something.
(Pulled at clearance pricing of $22 a couple of years ago - very nice QPR.) (595 views) | | | Tasted by thomaskeil on 9/16/2018 & rated 91 points: Evident stone, apple, lemon on the nose. Palate is a bit steely in a good way. Crisp but with a little fruit weight/roundness. Great on the deck on an unseasonably warm evening. (1033 views) | | | Tasted by K&J on 2/1/2018 & rated 91 points: Beautiful bouquet on the nose; however, the palate is different than what you would expect from the bouquet. The palate, while clean and precise, was a bit sedate. (1130 views) | | | Tasted by Motz on 5/29/2017 & rated 90 points: Light in color. Lively and gripping with appealing steeliness. An excellent summer sipper and likely to pair well with shellfish. (1725 views) | | | Tasted by smphelps on 5/24/2017 & rated 90 points: Light yellow. Firm in the mouth, with mouthwatering crispness and acidity. Granny smith apples, mineral water, lemon, and lime. (1355 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 10/8/2016 & rated 89 points: Tasting at Brick House (Ribbon Ridge): Winery tasting. The base Chardonnay. Lifted bright nose is mineral-driven with crisp green apple. Palate has medium body with round apple/pear fruit, minerality and acidic tension. A classically styled and well balanced Chardonnay. (1584 views) |
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In 1994 we began assembling plant material for one of the most exciting slopes on our forty-acre farm: the swale and ridge right outside the front windows of our old brick home. Rolling gently from our north boundary fence to the foot of tall Douglas fir in our woods, it is a south facing ridge with exposure on both the east and west sides of the central spine.
For such a site, we sought the finest plants available: the new “Dijon clones” of Pinot Noir were just beginning to find their way to West Coast nurseries. We ordered Dijon clones 113 and 115 from King Estate’s plant propagation program and grafted clone 114 from the nursery and Domaine Drouhin Oregon and planted them over nearly nine acres of ground one stormy February day in 1995.
Four years later the first wine from the Dijon block -- the 1998 “Les Dijonnais”-- was awarded 94 points by the Wine Spectator. Ten years after that vintage a Spectator retrospective placed the “Les Dijonnais” at the top of the chart of Oregon’s 1998 Pinot Noirs. Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate honored the 2002 “Les Dijonnais” with 94 points. The 2005, 2006 and 2007 “D.J.’s” garnered more acclaim as the vines matured and the winemaker grew more confident in how best to handle their wonderful fruit. 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.Oregon Oregon Wine, Oregon Wineries (Oregon Wine Board)Willamette Valley Willamette Valley Wineries Association | Willamette Valley (Oregon Wine Board)
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