2012 Shafer Chardonnay Red Shoulder Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (47) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  3/27/2022 - Craig Shipley Likes this wine: 82 Points

  Oaky even with age. Nice nose. Smooth, not buttery.

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  10/17/2020 - West Coast Wine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Slight golden in color showing some age but not much. Very expressive on the nose, overripe lemon/peel, lemon curd, caramel, vanilla, oak is still prevalent and some hints of fruit - ripe peach/tangerine. Acid is starting to drop off and alcohol is still somewhat high but expected for 14.9%. Big wine, full body, somewhat oakier than I remember and not as bright but that is likely the age showing. Good place right now and would easily go another 5 years if you enjoy age on your Chardonnay. Not a mineral driven wine but also not an oak bomb or buttery Chardonnay either.

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  6/28/2019 - Winiac wrote: 87 Points

  Adequate acidity. Buttery and big, hot and overoaked.

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  6/8/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote:

  Lisa's Big Birthday with Very Good Wine (Riverwoods, IL): Tasted double blind. So evidently New World Chardonnay. So very oaky, but nicely rich at the same time. Over the top for me, so not my style.

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  5/12/2019 - rocknroller wrote: 92 Points

  Light gold plus color. Drank a glass plus over 45 minutes. Poured this with our first morels of the season, which ironically we did two years ago on Mother's day too.. This was marked by citrus, tart, lemon, citrus zest, steely mineral, no sense of oak or vanilla now at all. Very good.

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