Community Tasting Notes 17

• RAD2626 wrote: 94 points

  April 27, 2024 - Lovely. Young and delicious. Like a young Montrachet. The blend adds enormous complexity and hints of lemon, honeysuckle, peach without any of the graphite or weight of a big Chardonnay. Light greenish tint adds to the mystery. Wonderful wine. Will hold remaining two bottles.

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• slywka7 Likes this wine: 95 points

  November 25, 2023 - Aromas of honeysuckle, flowers, citrus, apricot and sea spray. Flavors of quince, orange marmalade, mineral, hint of vanilla and apricot. Ends with a long finish of 40+ seconds.

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• thelostverse wrote: 89 points

  November 24, 2023 - Courtesy of Allred on Friendsgiving, opened alongside the 2021 Andremily White Cuvee to compare the two newest whites of these wineries. If tasting blind I would have sworn this was a NZ Sauvignon Blanc. The cut grass and cat pee receded somewhat during the course of the evening, but never entirely went away for me. Yes, it is painfully young, but we've been doing this with the SQN for a few years now and the tradition continues. I'll hold my bottles for a few years yet, and there is no hurry after that.

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• AllRed wrote: 89 points

  November 24, 2023 - A friendsgiving tradition, we always open our first bottle of the newest SQN white. Popped and poured. Deep color. Starts out very grassy, quite reminiscent of a sauv blanc actually, along with citrus fruit. Flavors of spice, citrus and melon are nearly overwhelmed by oak and toasted wood tones. Improved a bit with air, developing a lovely white peach note, but at this stage the oak is a bit much. New oak accounted for only 45% of the barrels used when making this wine, but it really stands out. This will need plenty of time for the wood to integrate. I much preferred the Andremily white opened alongside.

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• tcarter Likes this wine: 97 points

  September 16, 2023 - Still SO young. Approachable but would do better to age a few more years in the bottle. But stellar stuff.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type White
• Producer Sine Qua Non
• Varietal White Blend
• Designation Distenta White II
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Central Coast

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• Pending Delivery 67 (3%)
• In Cellars 1,726 (83%)
• Consumed 291 (14%)

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