Community Tasting Note

pgm wrote:

Sunday, June 8, 2008 - Visit to Napa; 6/7/2008-6/10/2008 (Napa Valley): After tasting a few other chardonnays that were remarkably underwhelming (a surprising number overoaked, and a few just plain bland), we were glad to pick this dependable favorite off the wine list at Market in St. Helena. It was, on one level, just what the doctor ordered: a perfect level of oak (certainly there, but no overwhelming vanilla or charred notes), nice body, etc.
Good lemon curd, mineral, and with an interesting note of pistachio and vanilla, creamy mouthfeel but not dominated creamy flavors, more lemon preserves, just a delicate touch of oak and some bready elements. Showing more minerality than I've seen in the Red Shoulder Ranch before. Very well done.
My only hesitation is that it wasn't as good as the RSR usually is, it was kind of a middle-of-the-road bottle as they usually go. Still excellent, but in the end not among the most exciting whites we had on this trip.

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