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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.7 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 62 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by WTF My Email was Here? on 4/20/2024 & rated 94 points: Very solid! Certainly the best non-champagne sparkler we have had.
Fine mousse, bright, light golden color. Fruit driven and fresh. Wonderful to drink. (261 views) | | | Tasted by BURGHen Boy on 1/10/2024 & rated 94 points: Fruit throughout, start to finish. Apple, pear, lime, kiwi. Elegant fine bead. Flows through the palate from start to long finish. What it lacks in bread and yeast is made up with structure, fruit and balance. (491 views) | | | Tasted by jshufelt on 12/24/2023 & rated 93 points: Consistent with our previous tasting notes. (415 views) | | | Tasted by 5laton on 8/24/2023: Still a very youthful lemon yellow appearance, barely developing nose of meyer lemon, cream and toast. Beautiful palate of lemon oil and chamomile with long persistence of flavors. This is barely even at middle age, but it's nearly a 10 out of 10. Blew an Eric Rodez Cuvee des Grand Vintages off the table that cost about 50% more, but admittedly had less development in bottle. Quite remarkable how this vintage has evolved.
Evolved positively over several days, eventually turning more tropical in expression; I preferred the day 1 and 3 expressions. (610 views) | | | Tasted by R.H. on 7/30/2023: Drinking very well right now (754 views) | | | Tasted by MMK73 on 7/2/2023 & rated 95 points: Precise with notes of baked apple, saline and lemon oil. High acidity presumes this has more time, but drinking beautifully now. (714 views) | | | Tasted by melvinyeowq on 2/24/2023 & rated 96 points: Floral red Burgs / '08 or older champagnes: Disgorged 28/11/17. Wow this ended up being my favourite of the sparklings. Attractive nose with some evidence of oak use, the palate had a good balance between the ripe, tropical fruit, and the high acidity and precision. Reminded me stylistically of Collin because of the beautiful delineation of ripe fruit but someone at the table said it was more similar to Bouchard - just goes to show the heights that this was able to reach. Thankful to have tried this rarity. (1418 views) | | | Tasted by astroman on 2/24/2023 & rated 94 points: Champagne 2008 and older or floral reds (Imperial Grand): Blind. Wow, the nose from this had white flowers, lily. Rounded on the palate, tasting like white wine but plenty of weight ending with a grapefruit finish. Bottled low pressure, some estimate 2-3 bars instead of the 6 bars. Finish was a little short. Did not guess it was not a champagne but something feels a little different. First time trying Ultramarine, I now understand the hype but with current prices, not sure I would buy them. (1021 views) | | | Tasted by daviswineguy on 7/26/2022 flawed bottle: Almost completely flat. (1352 views) | | | Tasted by JackStraw77 on 3/15/2022 & rated 94 points: Beautiful (1381 views) | | | Tasted by PJRONeill on 1/23/2022 & rated 93 points: Thought this was terrific. Plenty of depth and complexity, with notes of chalk, salt, citrus and apple. Extremely impressive. (1577 views) | | | Tasted by winefloat on 1/3/2022: Awesome now. The screaming bubbles and oomph of the young UMs has subsided. At this point it is more toasty, nutty and savory than bright with racy acidity and citrus when it was young. (1652 views) | | | Tasted by Rieslingfan on 11/25/2021: My wife, who does not curse says “this f***ing rocks.” Enough said. (1940 views) | | | Tasted by 10centpower on 10/18/2021: Probably the oldest UM I've had, and drank really well. Oxidative house style mellowed a bit and evolved nicely into a more mature wine. (1524 views) | | | Tasted by rocknroller on 10/17/2021 & rated 90 points: Monthly Tasting Group: Chardonnay (Oceanaire, Mpls, MN): Light gold color. Drank a glass over an hour. First time with this producer. Nice, a bit different. I like the age here, gives it some character. Toasty, big nose, red apple, and ginger. The palate is full bodied, a bit rich, red apple, apple peel, spiced, orange peel, wood tones. (1656 views) | | | Tasted by 5laton on 9/3/2021: Disgorged 11/28/2017. This was another oddly showing bottle of this release - a bit flat, with some moderately oxidized flavors, also a note of geosmin that got me paranoid about TCA. I eventually gave up trying to coax more pleasure from the glass and decided to hope for the best on day 2.
Most of the bottle left the next day, and it's killer. Just beautiful, with tons of barely-ripe lemon fruit, very gentle sweetness, stony minerality, and delightful subtle pastry richness. For my sweet spot these need another couple of years, but it should be open season after that. (1211 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 7/6/2021 & rated 93 points: Champagne & Sparklers (Calistoga): A smooth operator, the Ultramarine was rolling out all sorts of lemony goodness. Vibrancy and effervescence were on-point, as were the balanced and ever-expanding execution of flavor. This is missing some minerality and snap to frame-out the fruit, but scaffolding aside, this is a pleasure-hound sparkler to be sure. Drinking well now and likely at the height of its freshness meter (for me at least) before it starts to dip into a more secondary and tertiary flavor profile. 93 points. (4204 views) | | | Tasted by jshufelt on 5/15/2021 & rated 93 points: Largely consistent with our previous tasting note - perhaps a bit more full-bodied? (1396 views) | | | Tasted by Rich S on 1/1/2021 & rated 91 points: Almost 2 years since I last had this and some oxidative notes took over a bit more than I would prefer. Color was also a bit darker than I recall. Still, lots to like here and very complex and well made but missing some of that citrus and floral aromas and flavors and replaced by more nutty, bread notes. (1811 views) | | | Tasted by RichEB1 on 12/26/2020 & rated 95 points: Absolutley electric sparkling wine. Just a laser beam of citrus, lychee, minerality, hints of bread, and a touch of sweetness to even out the waves of acidity. Just so damn tasty - very happy that they increased allocations a bit on the last release as we NEVER have enough of these! As good as domestic sparkling wine gets. (1766 views) | | | Tasted by dougie on 11/8/2020 & rated 93 points: Beautiful (1644 views) | | | Tasted by BigTex22 on 10/22/2020 & rated 92 points: Opened for a birthday celebration. Beautiful nose as soon as it was popped. Light lemon, tiny bubbles, silky finish. Fell a bit flat after the first hour - I’d drink these up. (1702 views) | | | Tasted by yossarian.livez on 10/20/2020 & rated 91 points: Muted on the pop. Took at least 30 min to open at all. Tropical to citrus notes, slight oxidative tones. Clean bright and composed. It built In delineation throughout the day. Day 2 at minimum no worse. Holding strong. Oddly more bubbles. I’d hold frankly. (1624 views) | | | Tasted by Jahull03 on 8/25/2020: so good right now. settling in and not as nervous but still has intense energy - bright lemon acidity, some tropical fruit, beautiful weight. tastes great at every point - on pop with vigorous bubbles and 3 hours later as it settles to almost-still. (1713 views) | | | Tasted by dougie on 10/3/2019 & rated 94 points: Best domestic sparkler I’ve had. Everyone thought so. So clean, fresh and elegant. (2661 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Ultramarine Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeHeintz Vineyard On weinlagen-infoUSAAmerican 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 CountySonoma Coast * Sonoma Coast AVA (Wikipedia)
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