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Community Tasting Notes 6
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Zac&Jill Likes this wine:
August 14, 2022 - Very nice
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vaenoke Likes this wine: 86 points
July 26, 2022 - Pale straw colour. Fairly sweet-tones nose has components of yellow apple, honeysuckle and ripe apricots. Nose replicated in the taste along with tangerine peel and metallic minerality. Medium-light body, medium high acid, fairly high alcohol. VG
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frontenac Likes this wine: 89 points
July 20, 2022 - I just tasted this against a freshly opened white Bourgogne. The similarity was striking.The Steelbird had been opened for several days and kept under screwcap in the fridge. I’ll try this again with 2 freshly opened bottles. The main differences I noticed was a trace of sulfur dioxide in the French, which soon blew off, and the slightly more tart finish of the French. A fun tasting! Both were 2020 wines.
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frontenac Likes this wine:
June 1, 2022 - The wine seems dry, but has a very nice almost sweet finish.
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frontenac wrote: 86 points
June 1, 2022 - At under $6, this is now our house chardonnay!
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2020
- Type White
- Producer Smoking Loon
- Varietal Chardonnay
- Designation Steelbird
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation California
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 8 (15%)
- Consumed 47 (85%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
homemade turkey noodle soup; crab cakes with lemon dill tartar sauce - both goodWho Likes This Wine
100% Like It 4 votes
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- ProducerSmoking Loon
- VarietyChardonnay
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- AppellationCalifornia
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