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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.5 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 22 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Thralow on 5/5/2020 & rated 95 points: That look you get when you pull a runt from the cellar for some relaxed sipping. :-0 Turns out to be awesome. (858 views) | | | Tasted by PopularCar on 6/22/2015 & rated 92 points: Drank his alongside a 2012 Chimney Rock & 2012 Stags Leap Artemis (both Stags Leap District). Kings Farms stood out with its balance. Very nice Cali Cab. (2181 views) | | | Tasted by RobertB321 on 5/1/2014 & rated 93 points: This is a delicious wine with food and all by itself. It has a luscious mouth feel. Just a slight bit of heat on the back end, but I think that will go away as it ages a bit. Nice solid wine that really tastes fantastic with its dark fruit. The aromas are also quite nice filled with dark fruit. (2184 views) | | | Tasted by TastesGoodToMe on 3/6/2014 & rated 92 points: Time is helping this to come together. A little barnyard upon opening that quickly blew off with a little time in the decanter. Extremely dark with big fruity red, blue and black fruit flavors. Medium Finish. (2431 views) | | | Tasted by RobertB321 on 1/4/2014 & rated 94 points: Dark earthy and chocolate aromas. Also aromas of barnyard and dark fruit. Color is incredibly dark. Nice smooth flavor throughout. Nice balance with no burn. Nice long finish. Just as the taste finally subsides there is just a hint of heat. Looking forward to enjoying more bottles of this in the future. (2257 views) | | | Tasted by TastesGoodToMe on 5/5/2013 & rated 91 points: Huge wine. Not sure of the blend here. But if tasting blind would have guessed I was drinking a big Shiraz/Syrah. A little hot right now. Needs more time laying down. But has the stuffing to be a very nice wine if/when things become a little more in balance. (2335 views) |
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John and Maggie Kongsgaard own one of California’s few cult wine labels. Along with their estate vineyard east of the town of Napa, they also buy grapes from Carneros and St Helena. Human intervention is kept to a minimum at every step of the winemaking process. Owners John and Maggie Kongsgaard recently built a new winemaking facility in a cave east of the town of St Helena. They made their first vintage there in 2006.
“The Judge” is one of the most sought after Chardonnays in California. It is made with grapes from hillside vines grown east of the town of Napa. Amazingly, only one-half of a bottle is made from each vine. The wine is named after John Kongsgaard’s father, who was a judge in Napa for many years.
The Kongsgaard Napa Valley Chardonnay is made with grapes from the same estate vineyard as The Judge. It was fermented and aged in new French oak barrels with gentle lees stirring. It was not fined or filtered before bottling.
The Kongsgaard Napa Valley Syrah is made with grapes purchased from Hudson Vineyard in the Carneros AVA. The 2.7 acres of Syrah on Lee Hudson’s property are thinned to once cluster grape cluster per shoot, making yields very low. It is aged in 50% new French oak barrels for 2 years and is not fined or filtered.
Kongsgaard also makes a very small amount of a Viognier and Roussanne blend. It is fermented with its natural yeast and is aged in French oak for 10 months.Red Blend.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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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