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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 2 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by KoalaHK on 6/2/2017: Drunk at the Fine Wine Experience Mature California and Australian Wines from the Cellar of John Avery Dinner at Flint Bar and Grill, JW Marriott Hong Kong. Plenty of acid, fully integrated oak with touches of lemon on the finish. The best of the Mount Eden's in tonights line up. (1616 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 6/14/2008 & rated 92 points: Mount Eden Retrospective: the 1980s, with winemaker Jeffrey Patterson (The Plumed Horse Restaurant, Saratoga, California): Medium golden color; nice, soft lemon and vanilla nose; good tart lemon palate, with great acidity and minerality; medium finish 92+ pts. (1713 views) |
| By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, May/Jun 2016, Issue #63, Mount Eden Vineyards Another Superstar From the Golden Age
(Mount Eden Vineyards “Estate” Chardonnay) Login and sign up and see review text. | By John Kapon
Vintage Tastings, Los Angeles Quarterly (10/12/2005)
(Mount Eden Chardonnay) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, July/August 1998, IWC Issue #79
(Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains (in double magnum)) Subscribe to see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (6/14/2008)
(Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains) Medium golden color; nice, soft lemon and vanilla nose; good tart lemon palate, with great acidity and minerality; medium finish 92+ pts. 92 points |
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| Mount Eden Vineyards 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 Santa Cruz Mountains Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia
Once referred to by wine writers as the Chaine d'Or -- or "golden chain" -- the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA sits above Silicon Valley, running along the craggy range next to the Pacific on some of the prettiest parts of Northern California. The area supports more than 75 wineries, despite being limited by geography and high land prices.
In 1981 the Santa Cruz Mountains Viticultural Appellation became federally recognized, one of the first American viticultural areas to be defined by geophysical and climatic factors. The appellation encompasses the Santa Cruz Mountain range, from Half Moon Bay in the north, to Mount Madonna in the south. The east and west boundaries are defined by elevation, extending down to 800 feet in the east and 400 feet in the west. |
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