This wine is OK for a Cali Chard. Oak predominates, but there is some minerality. Can this age 10 years to integrate the Oak? I doubt it!!! Drink now or forever hold your piece. Buy a generic white burgundy and you would have saved $10. Latour Pouilly-Vinzelles or Montagny. Maybe they should stop growing Chardonnay in CA and concentrate on the Rhone varietals like Rousanne, Marsanne and Voigneier. I have had some very good ones from CA. Climate is more appropriate for these grapes in in most microclimates.
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Dinner with Pat G (Pluckemin Inn): Notes from memory. Very nice chard. Classic California chard elements - lovely fruit with some nice buttery, vanilla notes. Maybe just a touch overdone on the oak for my tastes, but certainly not way overdone.
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5/23/2007 - Forint wrote: 84 Points
somewhat lighter than I expected. simple oak. drank within a day of the 05 and I liked the 05 more.
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12/6/2006 - CADomer wrote: 88 Points
Drank with the Jimmy Tasting Team at Fresco's. Good night of wine and this was no exception.
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11/8/2006 - Cellarmaster wrote: 87 Points
This wine is OK for a Cali Chard. Oak predominates, but there is some minerality. Can this age 10 years to integrate the Oak? I doubt it!!! Drink now or forever hold your piece. Buy a generic white burgundy and you would have saved $10. Latour Pouilly-Vinzelles or Montagny. Maybe they should stop growing Chardonnay in CA and concentrate on the Rhone varietals like Rousanne, Marsanne and Voigneier. I have had some very good ones from CA. Climate is more appropriate for these grapes in in most microclimates.
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9/2/2006 - trankin wrote: 90 Points
Dinner with Pat G (Pluckemin Inn): Notes from memory. Very nice chard. Classic California chard elements - lovely fruit with some nice buttery, vanilla notes. Maybe just a touch overdone on the oak for my tastes, but certainly not way overdone.
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1/6/2006 - pepeelvis wrote:
nice chard. Was not overpowered by oak , and had some decent structure followed a reasonbly long, slightly sour finish.
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