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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 2 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by Robert Pavlovich on 11/30/2014: Golden brown color. Surprised to find this wine upright and still reasonably fresh and enjoyable. More honey than lemon on the palate, medium plus viscosity, with resolved oak. Graceful finish, medium in length. Easily the class of a decent group of older wines tonight. Appeared to have been a passively stored bottle. (1554 views) | | Tasted by beezer6 on 2/6/2014 & rated 90 points: Tasted at Farmhouse Evanston from a pristinely stored bottle from Kent Cellars. Darker golden color. Looked as though it may be heavily oxidized. Not the case. This couldn't have been at a better point for a 1979 Napa Chardonnay. Lovely nose of dark roast nuts and slightly dried fruit. The palate, however, is fresh and much more vibrant still showing nice acidity believe it or not. (1461 views) |
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Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeReserve The Wine News | Wine Country This Week | Wine Lover's PageUSAAmerican 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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