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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.2 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 105 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Winiac on 2/5/2024 & rated 94 points: Focused and extracted with elegance and definition. (188 views) | | | Tasted by JGinMO on 8/4/2023 & rated 91 points: Still dark fruit heavy but has taken on some layered complexity. Heavy sediment. (364 views) | | | Tasted by shafer1994 on 1/29/2023 & rated 94 points: Very young champion. Dark red color with purple edges. Restrained nose at the beginning. Opening up after 30-45 mins. A powerful full bodied complex cuvée that offer notes of dark olives, dark berries, dark chocolate, cedar, tobacco and tar. Very promising. Wonderfully texture, round and silky finish.
More open on day 3, but still showing muscles and tannins. I am sure this beauty will develop over the next decade and be a pleasure even longer. Good qpr. (640 views) | | | Tasted by libero on 9/9/2022 & rated 93 points: Delicious. A solid 93. Last bottle … (863 views) | | | Tasted by libero on 7/29/2022 & rated 93 points: A 12-year-old bottle that deserves a solid 93. (918 views) | | | Tasted by libero on 4/7/2022 & rated 93 points: This 12 years bottle is at peak. Dark and vibrant red, round, light aromas but subdue tannins. I would think “ready to drink” (1087 views) | | | Tasted by Redrunners on 9/14/2021 & rated 90 points: Big bold cab blend with flavors of blueberry, spice and vanilla. A little on the flabby side and could have used some acid for balance
Had the first night with marinated sirloin tips and found the wine a little too bold for a meal that can typically hold up to a bold wine. On the second night, had with spicy taco meat on a salad and worked better. Closer to a zin for pairing (1314 views) | | | Tasted by michigan66 on 8/3/2021 & rated 93 points: dark berries and very dense.
on the nose fruits from plumb, red currant and leather.
not too much wood.
long and opulent.
a great wine - even the bottle feels heavy and luxury. (1102 views) | | | Tasted by Bordeaux-OH-OH! on 9/7/2020: These were both just ok, a little disappointing, had remembered Chalk Hill as better. (109 views) | | | Tasted by JGinMO on 1/18/2020 & rated 92 points: Still young. Hit its stride after 60 mins in glass. (1677 views) | | | Tasted by ahwt on 12/25/2019 & rated 91 points: Very dark with a smokey prune flavor and aroma. Low acidity. Went well with a rib roast. (1513 views) | | | Tasted by libero on 10/7/2019 & rated 93 points: Dark red, with purple sub tons, ripe berries aromas and a smooth, velvet taste and a long finishing (1528 views) | | | Tasted by libero on 4/13/2018 & rated 92 points: A very successful blend. (2448 views) | | | Tasted by bhouk on 2/25/2018: Ripe and round, with chocolate, espresso, and pepper. An interesting, and in this case a successful, blend. Seems to be in a sweet spot right now. (2397 views) | | | Tasted by Cliff Booth on 11/27/2017 & rated 94 points: Day 2 - crisp, intense blackberry and bing cherry bouquet. Full-bodied yet light and uplifting Bdx blend with bright berry and cherry fruits as well as a cocoa/mocha undertone. This wine just continued to impress and closed with a perfect cinnamon allspice note - outstanding. (2301 views) | | | Tasted by Andrew Hunter on 11/24/2017 & rated 91 points: Drank two bottles First bottle was too tannic for its age but opened up after an hour or so. Second bottle was better but still a little tannic. (2163 views) | | | Tasted by suarezd on 8/18/2017 & rated 91 points: After 30-60 mins, opened up, with lots of blue fruit, and a little bit of mocha, earth, and smoky oak. (2653 views) | | | Tasted by tautlinehitch on 10/16/2016 & rated 93 points: Drunk several days ago so this is from memory: big, black wine with a complex smoke-and-berry nose, full and a bit heavy on the palate, adding cherry and cedar. Medium rough tannins balance the sweetness. Quintessential whack-you-over-the-head California cab blend. Fun to drink, but over the top in every direction - better as a tasting-party wine than with dinner. (3384 views) | | | Tasted by BlancdeBlanc on 9/16/2016 & rated 90 points: Aroma: chocolate, cherry Palate: tannins, charcoal, lots of fruit, raspberry, cherry, firm cannons, full-bodied (3230 views) | | | Tasted by ledocq on 8/25/2016: Damn! For the first hour it was open I worried I'd either gotten an off bottle or my enthusiasms from 3 years ago had changed, but -- nope. After an hour decant, this was everything I remembered. Lovely wine. (3500 views) | | | Tasted by smolden on 3/8/2016: Tasted but needs another 1-3 years- drink 2017-2020 (588 views) | | | Tasted by libero on 12/29/2015 & rated 92 points: Keeps improving (4822 views) | | | Tasted by KarrieS on 6/1/2015 & rated 94 points: Decanted 24 hours. It was wonderful! Smooth, smoky, wonderful! (5911 views) | | | Tasted by Halfeel on 4/1/2015 & rated 92 points: Really nice now, but will likely improve by a couple points with a few more years in the cellar. Will hold for 2-3 years before trying again. (4453 views) | | | Tasted by wino121 on 2/1/2015 & rated 91 points: decanted and drank over 3 hrs, ripe and ready Cali red wine,
Not overly complex but very enjoyable, seemed to be at a nice spot right now. (4686 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Chalk Hill Producer Website
Foley Family Estates for addt'l infoRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.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 CountyChalk HillAppellation: Appellation America | Chalk Hill website | from Russian River Travel |
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