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| Drinking window: Drink between 2014 and 2017 (based on 18 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by CJM on 9/3/2016 & rated 87 points: Clear pale straw. Vanilla, pear, apricot. Low acids, low tannins. lightly buttered toast. Short balanced finish. (851 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 9/20/2014 & rated 91 points: A Few Blind Chardonnays (Washington, DC): Light yellow color. Nose of golden apples, pears, some peach nectar and an herb butter element as well. Creamy texture but fresh and elegant as well, with complex interwoven flavors of apricot, golden apple, glazed pears. Notes of cinnamon, hazelnut and caramel corn add complexity but don’t overwhelm. Clean, fresh, notes of crushed chalk and sea shells in here as well. Clean, pure, but quite rich, this Chardonnay ends up pulling it off. I’d love to lay this down for four or five years because it’s got so much complexity to unravel. (3175 views) |
| By Josh Raynolds
Vinous, May/June 2014, IWC Issue #174
(Amapola Creek Chardonnay Jos. Belli Vineyards Russian River Valley) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Amapola Creek Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeUSAAmerican 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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