Community Tasting Notes 12

• pkoster6000 Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 6, 2023 - Last vintage of this wine as the vines were pulled at 45 years of age. Golden coloured Chardonnay that has obvious oak influence. Slight pyroxene note with Granny Smith apples and a honeyed note On the palate, citrus notes with petroleum, and honeyed lemon zest. There is a nice weight to the wine. I am finding that it is already transitioning into secondary notes and has little fruit to offer still.

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• rama Likes this wine:

  December 24, 2022 - Exceptional! My favorite chard in recent memory.

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• BigTex22 Likes this wine:

  March 5, 2022 - Really nice, lean and crisp. Should drink well for several more years.

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• Dine&Vine wrote: 91 points

  December 4, 2021 - Ditto TheSternOwl’s comments below (only one bottle allocated to me too).
  
  I too have the 2018 chard from Beta and enjoyed looking at my notes on both wines. It’s my understanding that the vines from this vineyard were pulled and this was the last from Chuy. 😩

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• thesternowl wrote: 91 points

  October 10, 2021 - My first experience with Tegan’s Chardonnay and I nerded out on this one. The fruit for this wine was the last harvest from the “Chuy” vineyard, a dry-farmed mountain vineyard at 1000ft elevation with 45yr old vines. It was particularly fun for me because Ketan Mody also harvested Chardonnay from Chuy in 2018 to make a one-off Chardonnay under his Beta label. Both are delicious expressions of the variety. My notes on this one below:
  
  Popped and poured. A very brilliant color reminds me of a yellow diamond and beautifully transparent with medium viscosity. On the nose, kumquat, passion fruit, and lime. Slightly reductive. On the palate, tropical fruit and saline minerals with the silkiest of textures. Medium+ acid helps deliver a long, satisfying finish. Lovely now but could probably cellar for a bit too. If only I had been allocated more than one bottle.

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• Vintage 2018
• Type White
• Producer Sandlands
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma County

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• In Cellars 95 (49%)
• Consumed 96 (49%)

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