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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.4 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 22 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by docwong3 on 8/14/2022 & rated 95 points: excellent (455 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 10/9/2019 & rated 100 points: OK. Your first thought is why 100. Well, this is my first 100 pt rating out of 2700 notes and god knows how many wines I have tasted over the last 50 years. Wine is youthful color, phenomenal palate feel, richness, expressive and long finish. Now drinking over 1 1/2 hrs. Could last (pristine Btl sourced from Wine bid) 10+ years. Seriously delicious. What else could you ask for. Not showing any age but WOW, complexity, acidity, lemon, OMG. Excited to see I have one more Btl. It's a buy if sourced right. (1350 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 6/15/2018 & rated 89 points: California Cabernet 2001/2002 Blind Tasting (Hughes House - Chicago IL): Served double blind alongside the 2003 vintage. Fully mature, just bright enough, with tropical fruit and baked apple. Still very tasty, but a few years past its peak. (1767 views) | | | Tasted by PSUSteve on 12/28/2015 & rated 92 points: Before tasting, I knew this was an Aubert but did not know vintage or vineyard. Blown away to know that this was 15 years old. Was fresh and lively out of the gate but had great weight and balance. Was described by someone else as a white for the winter and I couldn't have said it better myself. I would not plan on drinking this over any length of time as it did fade a little with time. (2193 views) | | | Tasted by jsebiri on 10/24/2015: very nice , apples and some lemon , well put together , didn't seem over the hill as other suggested , not even secondary , liked a lot , was expecting less (2244 views) | | | Tasted by WoodieBayArea on 7/12/2014 & rated 89 points: this bottle was simply over the hill (admittedly i like my chard tense / young'ish), color was dried out lemon rind, nose had a touch of fruit but smoke and tropicals were dominant, palate had just a hint of tropical fruit but the varnish elements just capped the fruit and made this interesting but not that enjoyable, still there was the lingering richness you would expect from aubert ritchie so for fans i bet this is an adventure so maybe worth one bottle for the experience (3124 views) | | | Tasted by Viking 61 on 3/27/2011 & rated 94 points: This was a great bottle. For an 11 year old Chard this wine still has a lot of pep. The Pear, honey and tropical fruit with ample acidity was a perfect pairing for a seafood ragu (crayfish, shrimp, clams) in a green curry sauce that was memorable. Also held its own with a veal pasta secondi. (3803 views) | | | Tasted by winefool on 10/1/2009 & rated 93 points: Wineflock - Chardonnay Shootout (My house): Group #1, My #8 - Aubert wins again - shock! I thought it would be interesting to see if a mature example could show as well as the younger ones always do. For me less so but the group disagreed. Full yellow color. Medium nose of apple pie with some acidity. Spicey zingy rich yellow fruit and a glycerin mouthfeel (but no heat). Nice. 93+ pts. (3713 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 10/1/2009 & rated 94 points: Chardonnay Shootout (Hughes House - Chicago IL): Blind Chardonnay tasting. Clearly Aubert from the first minute, with the great fruit and spice coming through from start to finish. I was amazed at its great balance, since my main problem with Aubert Chardonnay tends to be heat on finish. When unveiled as the (first vintage?) 2000 Ritchie, I remembered why this exact wine made me consider Mark Aubert a brilliant producer of Chardonnay. My WOTN, group's WOTN. (3962 views) | | | Tasted by hsacks on 5/12/2009 & rated 93 points: Gold color. Aromas of lemon oil and tropical fruits. Very intense, oily fruit in the mouth with excellent structure and great depth and length. Almost painful to drink without food but went beautifully with Arctic char. Ample but well-integrated oak. At peak but no signs of oxidation. (2775 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 9/2/2008 & rated 95 points: Burgundy Al's Aubert Dinner - Near Complete Vertical / Horizontal (Chicago, IL): Delicious nose has creamy tropical fruits, pears and honey. Palate has prominent fresh acidity and forward lush fruits. White fruit, tropical fruits and plenty of minerality. Very light on its feet into a long, long finish. Stellar. (2852 views) | | | Tasted by winefool on 9/2/2008 & rated 95 points: Aubert Tasting (Alan's): Flt #1 - Medium yellow color with hints of green. Medium rich yellow friut on the nose. Nice rich mature yellow fruit stuffing on the palate with truffle notes and just a hint of butterscotch. Probably nearing full maturity, this is still showing very nicely. (2288 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 9/2/2008 & rated 95 points: Aubert Tasting and Dinner (My home - Chicago IL): My WOTN, many others' WOTN night as well. Peach and pear aromas with perfectly supporting baking spice. Same fruit on palate, perhaps slightly more ripe but incredibly fresh for its age. Great acidity and textures, this wine had the most nuanced and substantive finish. One of the finest examples of New World Chardonnay I have ever enjoyed. Interesting, this is a full 1+% lower alcohol than the latest vintages. (3100 views) | | | Tasted by jsebiri on 3/31/2008: classic cali chardonnay , butter , soft fruits....very small secondary taste , well done bottle of wine Probably in the high 80's - lo 90's type of rating (1726 views) | | | Tasted by mattiasjansson on 8/1/2007 & rated 92 points: Backstreet - Whites (Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix, AZ): Mellow, but perfectly balanced w/ nice complexity. (2603 views) | | | Tasted by kstoddard on 8/1/2007 & rated 94 points: Phoenix eRP Offline - Whites (Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix): Pears and caramel. Beautiful mid palate depth. Rich, complex finish. Very pretty wine. Well integrated. (2627 views) | | | Tasted by goofy Yno on 8/1/2007 & rated 91 points: pears, pineapple. good balance with some nice acitiy. light bodied (1773 views) | | | Tasted by mappleton on 1/28/2007 & rated 94 points: Opened last night at REDD. Incredibly subtle nose of pineapple and tropical fruits. Very refreshing and minerally. Drinking very well right now. Wonderful. (2225 views) | | | Tasted by agbailey on 3/25/2006: Another wine that was hard to rate, given the other wines of the evening. Very nice wine, great layers of fruit and a good finish. Probably a low 90's rating would be accurate. (2604 views) |
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Vinous, 2017 & 2018 Napa Valley In Depth (Jan 2020) (1/1/2020)
(Aubert Chardonnay Ritche Sonoma White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, May/June 2002, IWC Issue #102
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| Aubert Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeRitchie VineyardRitchie Vineyard is legendary in Russian River Valley, widely regarded as one of the best Chardonnay sites in all of California. The vineyard was first planted in 1972 to a handful of heritage selections, including Old Wente, and sits on a rolling northwest facing hillside in the heart of Russian River Valley, near the intersection of Trenton-Healdsburg and Eastside roads. The unique soil profile, comprised of Goldridge series sandy loam and a layer of volcanic ash deposits, creates wines with great intensity, which exude a rare purity and sense of place. For more than forty years, Kent Ritchie has farmed this vineyard with passion, precision and a loving touch. He pays personal attention to the wishes of each winemaker working with his grapes because, like the best growers in the area, he understands that the relationship is as important as the quality of the finished product that bears his name.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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