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| Drinking window: Drink between 2010 and 2012 (based on 48 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 83.8 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by worbx on 5/26/2015: I like the flavor here. While the bottle mentions oak, I don't detect very much, just a little hint, maybe. It pours with a good sour note on the aroma, along with some fruit. The aroma shrinks as it opens up... but then comes back. Now is when I begin to smell the oak. The flavor to me is good fruit, some minerality in the middle, and a crisp finish with some lingering fruit notes.
Tasted from 61–68°F. (1089 views) | | | Tasted by Snoman on 11/14/2011 & rated 90 points: Solid Chardonnay. Nicely balanced and rich in flavor, without overly oaked nor cloying vanilla flavors. Influence of barrels and malolactic fermentation done just right to make for a pleasing palate and food-friendly end result. Exceptional QPR for an estate-bottled wine. (2248 views) | | | Tasted by nbbh03 on 10/9/2011 & rated 78 points: Very fruity flavor. Same after taste with a hint of oak. Paired well with yellowfin tuna. (1869 views) |
| Kunde Estate 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma ValleySonoma County, California, is one of the most important winegrowing regions in the whole of the United States. Vines have been planted here since the 1850s and, apart from the inevitable hiatus brought about by Prohibition, the county's relationship with wine has been prolific and unbroken.
Viticulturally speaking, Sonoma County is divided into three distinct sections: Sonoma Valley, Northern Sonoma and Sonoma Coast. Each of these has its own AVA title and encompasses several sub-AVAs within its boundaries. |
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