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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by WetRock on 9/9/2020: Cork shows ingress up about a quarter all the way around. Color makes you pause getting towards bronze. But damn if this isn't expressive. Barely showing any oxidation but very mature nonetheless. Broad, loud sweet Meyer lemon on the nose and palate with some ripe apricot. So rich and big still. Some notes of yellow apple, honey. Hints of butterscotch. Fairly fat fruited with just enough acidity to keep this lively. Terrific. Really really impressive for just how big and expressive this is 25 years in. (1157 views) | | | Tasted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 1/4/2019 & rated 92 points: Overripe stone fruit, plenty of butter and some oaky notes. Acid is mostly gone. Only a very well made Cali Chardonnay could make it this long. (978 views) | | | Tasted by fredb on 5/2/2013: Deepening gold color. Aromas of butterscotch candy, lemon, and baked apple. Palate has some nuttiness under caramel, butterscotch, lemon, and apple notes. Some mushroom and marshmallow sneak in with air. The finish is medium-long. This shows its age, but is pretty easy to enjoy if you like a little bit of aged character in your Chardonnay. Drink or hold. (3756 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 12/2/2011 & rated 86 points: Mount Eden Retrospective with Jeffrey Patterson: The '90s (The Plumed Horse Restaurant, Saratoga, California): Medium orange color; oxidized, baked orange, baked pear nose; tart baked orange, baked pear, oxidized palate; medium-plus finish (Jeffrey says he should have used more SO2 in '95 and '94) (2201 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 7/4/2010 & rated 86 points: 2010 July 4th Wine Barbecue at the Pangs: (Almost) All American Wine Lineup (Chez Pang, Sunnyvale, California): Medium dark orange color; mature, beeswax, oxidized, hazelnut, nutty nose; mature, tart lemon, baked lemon, hazelnut palate; medium finish (2417 views) | | | Tasted by Keith Levenberg on 6/16/2009 & rated 96 points: It was fun watching everybody's surprise over just how awesome this was. I think everyone who was lucky enough to get some took seconds. This still has a ton of freshness, from its cool, brightly complexioned fruit to its spackling of beach sand, but age has given it a golden-green color, pungent aromatics, and a sappy intensity with just the right amount of treacly butterscotch to enrich the otherwise classic fruit profile. Never had a better California chardonnay. (5734 views) |
| Mount Eden Vineyards Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Santa Cruz Mountains Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia
Once referred to by wine writers as the Chaine d'Or -- or "golden chain" -- the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA sits above Silicon Valley, running along the craggy range next to the Pacific on some of the prettiest parts of Northern California. The area supports more than 75 wineries, despite being limited by geography and high land prices.
In 1981 the Santa Cruz Mountains Viticultural Appellation became federally recognized, one of the first American viticultural areas to be defined by geophysical and climatic factors. The appellation encompasses the Santa Cruz Mountain range, from Half Moon Bay in the north, to Mount Madonna in the south. The east and west boundaries are defined by elevation, extending down to 800 feet in the east and 400 feet in the west. |
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