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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by bpaun on 1/23/2011 & rated 95 points: Wonderful bottle of wine. Nice tart acidity, not too much oak. Beautiful wine. I wish I had more! (1853 views) | | | Tasted by winegr on 8/5/2010 & rated 92 points: COmplex stuff. Somewhat burgundian. Complex, with firm structure for a CA chard. Not overoaked. Fairly extracted with some honey offset by tart acidity in the form of lemon and orange oil and a bit of lemon and orange peel. Complex and balanced and structured. Sure this is from CA? 1/2 burgundy and 1/2 high end CA chard. Really Nice, but serious and not for everybody. Just a little different. (1864 views) | | | Tasted by pkatz on 7/12/2010 & rated 90 points: This is a pretty tasty, elegant and complex chardonnay. Lots of lemon and pineapple. Medium weight. (2021 views) | | | Tasted by rdsboca on 7/7/2010 & rated 95 points: This wine totally delivered. Lemon and grapefruit dominated the nose upon popping the cork. A s night progressed, picked up weight with a phenomenal mouth feel. Won out over the RM chard the night before (2114 views) | | | Tasted by abnye27 on 6/15/2010 & rated 88 points: This wine missed the mark for me, compared with past bottles. It seemed to lack the body and richness, and the acidity cut through it a bit too harsh. (2410 views) | | | Tasted by winegr on 4/1/2010 & rated 91 points: Different style, which I kinda dig. This is a bit more herbal and complex with intereasting notes. Not for everyone. (1379 views) | | | Tasted by dmlove18 on 5/14/2009 & rated 80 points: Not one of Neyers better efforts. Fruit seemed a bit "sour", no oak at all. Not what you expect from a Sonoma Chardonnay. (1849 views) |
| By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, May/June 2008, IWC Issue #138
(Neyers Vineyards Chardonnay Thieriot Vineyard Sonoma Coast) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Neyers Producer website
Begun in 1992 by Bruce and Barbara Neyers, Neyers Vineyards produces about 15,000 cases of wine annually. About 25% of our production is Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grown on our 50-acre, organically farmed Conn Valley ranch. The vineyard is managed by Penterman Farming Company. We purchase additional grapes from a select group of growers, among them the Sangiacomo family of the Carneros District, Will Nord of Napa and Rossi Ranch of Sonoma County.
Winemaker Tadeo Borchardt joined us in 2004 after several years of experience in the industry making wine in both California and New Zealand. He's a Cum Laude graduate of the University of Arizona, a zealous advocate of our natural winemaking practices and an enthusiastic supporter of our appreciation for traditionally produced European wines. He brings with him a valuable combination of technical know-how and respect for tradition.
Bruce's experiences over the past several years working with Kermit Lynch Imports and a group of more than 100 French vintners have been important in shaping the style of our wines. Most of these producers farm organically, make their wines naturally without use of cultured yeast or laboratory designed winemaking aids, and are comfortable bottling their wines without either fining or filtration. We have long admired their wines, and eagerly adopted many of their natural winemaking practices.
In 1999, we purchased and renovated a winery on Sage Canyon Road in the hills outside of Rutherford in the Napa Valley. We produced our first vintage in this state of the art facility in 2000. In 2002, Wine and Spirits Magazine named Neyers Vineyards the Artisan Winery of the Year. 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 Coast * Sonoma Coast AVA (Wikipedia)
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