toasty oak and cereal nose, pretty pale goldenrod color. Evolves into more distinct Cherrios. Creamy almost lactic quality. Still cereal grain all over the palate. Ben claims of smokey stoniness to Santa Cruz Mtn Chard. Ridge and Mount Eden first in Santa Cruz Mtns.
Rock molasses to the nose, wet yeast, smells of marmite. There it is again. palate of pineapple, neutral oak. Very pale color again. fruit starts coming of the nose as lychee and pineapple. Very pleasurable. now even a saccharine, cotton candy nose emerges, marmite is still there. this is really a wild wine. Carneros - sandy soil. not best cab spot. good for pinot and chard.
1st bottle was corked. Smoke and graphite along side neutral oak. wet metal. iron. fruit pushes through with orange, rose petal and bits of shale. Pronounced acidity. shale, shale, shale. A little mexican herbaceousness, cilantro.
Rabigato, Codega, Donzelinho, viosinho, arinto @ 65% plus others. I smell marzipan. sweet sherry undertones cereal quality with deep fruit notes. Very fat texture to this wine. nose reminds me of the ridge home ranch.
USA, California, Sonoma County, Russian River Valley
Russian River Valley, Ritchie Vineyard Lots of fruit tucked into the oak of the nose. Oh, wait, that disappears. More one dimensional than the rest. Shorterish finish. Maybe a little butteriness hanging around. Ends with a roasted nut feel. or is it toasted pumpkin seed?
Est. in 982. First to be demeter certified biodynamic. gets quite a perfume. nose suggests sweetness. opens into notes of age. hazelnut, sherry barrel ferment. no fine. no filter. no sulfites. great texture. haystacks and silage. worth the price? don't ask me i didn't pay for it. at $0 it's infinitely worth the experience.
2005 Ridge Chardonnay Home Ranch
USA, California, Santa Cruz Mountains
toasty oak and cereal nose, pretty pale goldenrod color. Evolves into more distinct Cherrios.
Creamy almost lactic quality. Still cereal grain all over the palate.
Ben claims of smokey stoniness to Santa Cruz Mtn Chard.
Ridge and Mount Eden first in Santa Cruz Mtns.
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2006 Auteur Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard
USA, California, Napa / Sonoma, Carneros
Rock molasses to the nose, wet yeast, smells of marmite. There it is again.
palate of pineapple, neutral oak. Very pale color again.
fruit starts coming of the nose as lychee and pineapple. Very pleasurable.
now even a saccharine, cotton candy nose emerges, marmite is still there.
this is really a wild wine.
Carneros - sandy soil. not best cab spot. good for pinot and chard.
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2004 François Raveneau Chablis 1er Cru Montée de Tonnerre
France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru
1st bottle was corked.
Smoke and graphite along side neutral oak. wet metal. iron.
fruit pushes through with orange, rose petal and bits of shale.
Pronounced acidity. shale, shale, shale.
A little mexican herbaceousness, cilantro.
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2004 Niepoort Douro Redoma Branco
Portugal, Douro
Rabigato, Codega, Donzelinho, viosinho, arinto @ 65% plus others.
I smell marzipan. sweet sherry undertones
cereal quality with deep fruit notes. Very fat texture to this wine.
nose reminds me of the ridge home ranch.
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2006 DuMOL Chardonnay Chloe
USA, California, Sonoma County, Russian River Valley
Russian River Valley, Ritchie Vineyard
Lots of fruit tucked into the oak of the nose. Oh, wait, that disappears. More one dimensional than the rest.
Shorterish finish. Maybe a little butteriness hanging around.
Ends with a roasted nut feel. or is it toasted pumpkin seed?
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2007 Schloss Gobelsburg Grüner Veltliner Reserve Lamm
Austria, Niederösterreich, Kamptal
Whoa, califlower and celery. Very aromatic, lavenderishness.
Spicy of white pepper.
Est. in 1171 by an order of monks.
please feed me more.
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1993 Nikolaihof Grüner Veltliner Vinothek
Austria, Niederösterreich, Wachau
Est. in 982. First to be demeter certified biodynamic.
gets quite a perfume. nose suggests sweetness.
opens into notes of age. hazelnut, sherry
barrel ferment. no fine. no filter. no sulfites.
great texture. haystacks and silage. worth the price?
don't ask me i didn't pay for it. at $0 it's infinitely worth the experience.
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2006 Dönnhoff Schloßböckelheimer Felsenberg Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
Germany, Nahe
Best in the Nahe.
Hello to the orange and honeysuckle.
zesty citrus palate.
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