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| Community Tasting Notes | | | Tasted by nextworld on 10/14/2017: Alas, my last bottle of this (pulled for our hugely historic 38 bottle horizontal/vertical ClosPepeFest '17, but lost in the shuffle) has a dusty buckwheat-y impression that coats the tongue numbingly for a good 45. Dispatch any remaining post haste. (442 views) | | | Tasted by kanab ram on 6/14/2010: This seems to be in a great place for me. Fruit is less apparent with more mineral, honey, stone, and nutty components showing through. Lush mouthfeel and lengthy finish. Drinking more mature than its age. (1615 views) | | | Tasted by jreis on 5/3/2010: Lemon oil, papaya and pears on a very clean precise nose. Nice balance of sweet pear fruit, limestone and bracing acidity on the palate. Excellent with a chicken ceasar salad on a warm spring night! (1511 views) | | | Tasted by kanab ram on 7/28/2009: Very light with soft nose of tropical fruit, baked apple and vanilla. Flavors really came alive after warming up to room temp. Very nice! (1639 views) | | | Tasted by DanB on 7/13/2009: Light straw colored, very clean wine. Nose of citrus, mostly lime - palate is similar with notes of pear and pineapple- no apparent oak. Nice and clean refreshing wine. It has a roundness that suggest that malo was complete. Great food wine - not your normal buttery fat CA chard. Pleasure to drink. B+/A- (1721 views) | | | Tasted by kanab ram on 4/6/2009: Crisp and clean with notes of wet rock, apple, grapefruit and pear. (1512 views) |
| Clos Pepe Estate Producer website2007 Clos Pepe Estate ChardonnayFrom the Clos Pepe website:
The 2007 Clos Pepe Estate Chardonnay continues a nine year tradition of making a Sta. Rita Hills white wine in the tradition of Chablis. 75% of the wine is fermented and aged in small stainless casks, while 25% is fermented and aged in neutral French oak. The resulting wine is delicate, minerally and quite cellar-worthy.
This year's (2007) Homage to Chablis is only a slight departure from previous years. The wine has a touch of residual sweetness (about half a percent, hardly noticable), which serves as an excellent foil for its strong acidity. We have also added the Dijon 76 clone (50%) to the usual Wente Clone that has made up the HtC wines of the past.
Primary fermentation took almost 9 months for this wine in a very cool cellar we hope you will be as patient with this wine and allow it to rest at least a few years in the cellar before enjoying it with artisan cheeses, shellfish, sushi, BBQ ribs it's a great food wine!
Expect some honeyed and floral-infused apple, pear and tropical fruit note in this wine's youth, buoyed by excellent mineral structure and firm acid.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 Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
http://beveragetradenetwork.com/en/btn-academy/list-of-winegrowers-association-in-central-coast-california-274.htm
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