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| Drinking window: Drink between 2018 and 2022 (based on 27 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.1 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 20 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by SCosgrove on 1/1/2021 & rated 93 points: Excellent indeed (1275 views) | | | Tasted by SCosgrove on 11/29/2020 & rated 93 points: Excellent! (1164 views) | | | Tasted by tomoem on 2/28/2019 & rated 91 points: I felt it appropriate to taste and post on this tonight.
Today I read that she has sold the winery.
To Merry Edwards: Congratulations to you and your husband.
Having had many of her wines and also my wife meeting her in 2018 at CBCC made me feel that I was as close to the royalty in the wine industry as one could get. I wish I could have met her.
Good luck in you in your next chapter Merry, you have left the industry better than you found it. This is the highest achievement in wine making.
Now for the wine. I have held this bottle for almost 2 years and I must say I think it has improved. Slightly chalky but a present lemon fruit followed by kiwi, some mango, and apple. Sharp at the start, creamy mid palette and worth finding. (2173 views) | | | Tasted by SCosgrove on 2/17/2019 & rated 93 points: Really drank well, loved it. (1716 views) | | | Tasted by BigBoy_Sonoma on 11/24/2018 & rated 93 points: Apples, minerality, pears, acidity, hints of herbal notes. A/A- (1905 views) | | | Tasted by SCosgrove on 11/10/2018 & rated 93 points: Never had her Chardonnay, only the Sauv Blanc. Amazing! (1283 views) | | | Tasted by Benj on 10/20/2018 & rated 90 points: This wine has been produced since 2010. 40% new French oak. Milky drumsticks, tingly nose, dried pineapple. Warm, smooth. 20 barrels produced. Excellent, but I prefer her Sauvignon Blanc. 14.3%, $66. (1095 views) | | | Tasted by soyhead on 4/7/2018: nose - cream, toast
mouth - fresh, lively, Burgundian (988 views) | | | Tasted by GTFreek on 3/22/2018: Medium nose shows lemon peel, white flowers, yellow flowers, nice there, limestone, field grass, cinnamon. Palate is expressive, full bodied with creamy mouthfeel, layers of Meyer lemon, vanilla, light spice, baking spice, orange peel, medium plus alcohol, medium acidity, then the finish is loooong, really shines there. Nice CA style but restrains itself also. Very high quality. (769 views) | | | Tasted by JackCMac on 8/22/2017 & rated 94 points: Very good with good acid and long finish (1007 views) | | | Tasted by JackCMac on 6/5/2017 & rated 95 points: Good body great acidic aftertaste slightly oaky (902 views) |
| Merry Edwards Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeOlivet Lane VineyardPellegrini’s Olivet Lane Vineyard was planted in 1975 to Wente selection on AXR rootstock. The vineyard sits on 65 acres of sloping benchland in the Santa Rosa Plain, in between the warmer Westside Road region and the cooler Green Valley, where warm summer days are moderated by cool breezes and chilly evening temperatures. The combination of low temperatures, regular fog intrusion and well drained loam, clay soils create an excellent environment for growing Chardonnay that develop cool-climate characteristics and impeccable acid at fairly low sugars. The wines from this vineyard simultaneously express power and finesse, and they do so with tremendous balance.USAAmerican 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyRussian River Valley Russian River Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia |
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