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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by wgmccallum on 4/4/2024 & rated 94 points: Pale yellow with hints of gold, brilliant. On the nose, lemon, stone fruit, melon, white flowers, sea air, a deft touch of oak. An explosion of fruit on the palate, rich and round with bright medium plus acids, excellent weight and balance, low to medium alcohol (13.5%), long finish. Complex and delicious. (110 views) | | | Tasted by JFW on 2/19/2024 & rated 92 points: Wonderfully balanced. Like superb white burgundy. Lovely acidity. Still a bit of lush and rich flavor without any body or weight to burden things. Subtle peach. Anyhow... While not cheap, I think the value here is quite strong. (159 views) | | | Tasted by brigcampbell on 12/10/2023: Nice chardonnay. Very representative of Sonoma style. Ripe pear and tropical fruit. Light butter note, full mouth feel. Medium acidity. (348 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 12/10/2023: Opened yesterday, finishing the final few ounces this evening. Tasted without food, started chilled and allowed to soften in temp for the note. Brig's note is well done, and of note he brought the wine yesterday so we tasted the same bottle. Some melted butter in the aroma, and some of that same note kinda caresses the palate. Brig mentions tropical and for me the flavors go towards papaya and green banana. There is a spicy note that lingers into the finish, like a ginger and perhaps a fresh cut green apple. I can also taste the pear he mentions, too. Drinking well at this stage, with lots of delineation, framed by some of the light oak that I mentioned. (542 views) | | | Tasted by EMark on 1/20/2023: Crystal clear pale yellow color. Tropical fruit aromas. On the tongue I get pineapple and kiwi with, maybe, some caramel. Bright lemony acid makes this a very refreshing wine. We enjoyed this wine with trout, last night, but I have to say that this wine would have been sensational with shellfish. (395 views) |
| Chardonnay 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 CountySonoma ValleySonoma County, California, is one of the most important winegrowing regions in the whole of the United States. Vines have been planted here since the 1850s and, apart from the inevitable hiatus brought about by Prohibition, the county's relationship with wine has been prolific and unbroken.
Viticulturally speaking, Sonoma County is divided into three distinct sections: Sonoma Valley, Northern Sonoma and Sonoma Coast. Each of these has its own AVA title and encompasses several sub-AVAs within its boundaries. |
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