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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2009 and 2012 (based on 19 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 85.1 pts. and median of 86 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Wine Sparty on 4/19/2011 & rated 80 points: Drank with baked chicken. Aroma is pretty much all oak. Taste is heavy oak, and butter as well - not a good combo for me. Maybe a bit of lighter stone fruit taste, but it's really hard to catch through the oak. (3834 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Sparty on 9/9/2010 & rated 85 points: Liked this better than past bottles. The oak wasn't as predominant as before, but it could be because I took longer to drink this bottle. Had some decent citrus (I picked up some lime) and lychee flavors. Still does have that buttery oak taste in there that doesn't do it for me. (3985 views) | | | Tasted by shaunalynn on 7/29/2010: Approachable but complex and ideal for pairing with many foods or for enjoying on its own. We have much respect for and experience with the noble Chardonnay grape. Utilization of traditional Burgundian practices like whole cluster pressing, barrel fermentation and sur lie aging are used. Color is light straw, aroma is lemon, honey, vanilla with hint of orange blossom. Flavor: full-bodied with crisp acidity of citrus, vanilla bean and flinty mineral accents (4028 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Sparty on 3/28/2010 & rated 83 points: Just too much oak and butter flavor that seem so typical of Chardonnay for me. (4246 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 3/5/2010 & rated 86 points: Light golden yellow color; butter, pineapple, ripe lemon nose; big, creamy textured, vanilla, pineapple, lemon cream palate, well made for the type; medium finish (1797 views) | | | Tasted by Tarrant on 2/19/2010 & rated 89 points: Very good chard, lovely bright acidity and not over 'buttered' at all, nicely integrated oak and not overly intense - Gold, medium viscosity with a nose of pear, apple, butter, toffee and vanilla, nice balancing acidity, straightforward chard, very tasty, smooth on the palate, with good length, but not overly exciting (89 Points). (4013 views) | | | Tasted by GARDEN on 9/8/2009: The bottle was opened for a meeting my wife was holding. The remainder was then sealed. It was still drinkable five days later, but it would not be fair to assign a rating after that long a delay. (2214 views) |
| By John Szabo, MS
WineAlign (10/21/2009)
(Rutherford Hill Chardonnay, Napa Valley white) Subscribe to see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (3/5/2010)
(Rutherford Hill Chardonnay) Light golden yellow color; butter, pineapple, ripe lemon nose; big, creamy textured, vanilla, pineapple, lemon cream palate, well made for the type; medium finish 86 points |
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| Rutherford Hill Producer websiteChardonnay 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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