2000 Schramsberg Vineyards J. Schram

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 91.6 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View kmforster's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/25/2023 - kmforster Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Beautifully mature, with secondary and tertiary notes, but also plenty of freshness and verve keeping it all alive in the glass. Really beautiful now but if you like them really old you could hold this longer provided it has been properly stored.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View bugdoced's profile
  • Report Issue

  12/19/2017 - bugdoced Likes this wine: 92 Points

  in terrific shape with beautiful bubbles and a mixture of primary citrus and secondary mushroom notes
  too good to be drinking midweek but who cares?
  Cheers

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View skurtz's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/3/2017 - skurtz Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drinking very well at the moment, lots of complex green fruit notes, citrus, green apple. Smooth, well balanced and dangerously easy to drink.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View forceberry's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/4/2015 - forceberry wrote: 96 Points

  A blend of Chardonnay (80%) and Pinot Noir (20%) sourced from Napa (60%), Mendocino (20%), Sonoma (12%) and Marin (8%). Kept on the lees for 69 months. Dosage 11,5 g/l.
  
  Rich, developed, apricot yellow color. Dry and a little bit restrained yet incredibly complex and attractive nose with initial aromas of cream, browned butter and peach and more textural nuances of baked bread, some smoke, sweet wood hints and a whiff of vanilla. The taste is as rich as a Californian sparkler can be, but with taut and serious structure: the palate is incredibly crisp and energetic. Flavors of bread, cream, spice, butter, lemon curd, tart green apples, barely ripe yellow plums and some roasted almonds. Fine and elegant yet grippy and persistent mousse, incredibly laser-like acidity. Rich, mature and lingering finish with developed flavors of nutty toastiness, vanilla creme brioche, some lemon curd and a hint of Granny Smith apple.
  
  By far the most convincing new world sparkling wine I've ever had! If served blind, I'd guess this was a fine prestige cuvée from some of the acclaimed grand marquées with some serious bottle age. With its mature complexity and superb structure, this is utterly charming, elegant and so tasty stuff that it can best some of the best Champagnes with relative ease. Will easily hold until 2020, probably even further. No wonder they say Schramsberg is the best US sparkling producer. At 59,50€ this was a treat at ridiculously low price.

  2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View mattdathan's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/30/2014 - mattdathan Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Smooth, luscious, silky. Still great.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 24 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.