Uncorked about 1 hour before tasting and this is better at a cooler temp. Golden color with very pleasing aromatics. It's in the secondary/teritiary stages of its life, but I believe it will still evolve for the next 3-5 years. On the palate, it's well-balanced, medium-bodied, with a medium minus acidity that's lost it's brightness, but is still fully integrated and became more apparent after 1 1/2 hours. On the palate, very flavorful and suggestive of lanolin on the mid-palate and finish, the caramel on caramel corn, orange marmalade, pear, and cut lemons that have been stored a few days. It was very enjoyable and I'd buy again.
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2010 KOSTA BROWNE ONE SIXTEEN VINEYARD RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY CHARDONNAY- tasted blind; light yellow color; toast and flint in the nose joined by honeysuckle, apple and pear fruit in the taste; good feel, but it seems to close up by mid palate and the fruit dries out; most had it as CA and last in the flight as I did.
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Similar notes to T.E.D. Having had several bottles of the beautiful 2009 and a few 2011's which were gorgeous, i was left disappointed. Not bad, but for the price, expected more. On the nose heavy new oak and little to no fruit. Thought it might need time and a little opening. Half hour or 45 minutes later the nose was much the same save for a touch of guava and pineapple. On the palate, dull and heavy cream and a touch of burnt oak, little to no acid, fruit invisible behind the oak influence. Maybe just a bad bottle, will open another in a few weeks to find out. Kosta Browne Chardonnay is usually the perfect balance of new world oak and Burgundian fruit and influence. Just the right touches of butter,acid, flowers, and fruit.
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Scrumptious and delicious this yellow citrine colored Chardonnay displays a Tropicana bouquet with citrus in the pineapple notes. A little Steely and missing some juicy fruits, this is holding well and not too powerful on the phenols.
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Popped and poured, consumed over 1 hour. Nose: Medium expressiveness, lemon meringue, green apple, crushed rock and hints of licorice. Palate: Medium-full bodied, wonderful creamy mouth-feel, lemon pie and pear flavors up front, solid acidic back-bone and nice mid-palate flavor lift carries through the back-end. Finish: Medium-plus length dominated by lemon meringue and tart pear.
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Ditto my last review. A well made new world style Chardonnay with good Burgundian charectoristics. Nose of juicy citrus, palate a good mix of lush tropical fruit, with good acid on the back palate.
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Pale yellow color, viscous upon a swirl. Nose was initially big tropical fruit, with pineapple, some mango, crystallized ginger. With 45 of air more citrus notes started to emerge. The palate drinks very new world, with big buttery notes, vanilla and toasted oak, a hint of stone but nothing to create a necessary counterbalance. Big and brooding, mom wine for sure!
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Pale gold color. Citrus aromas - lemon peel. Racy acidity and rich mouthfeel. Decent minerality. Have not had this wine in quite some time. It is holding well. Drinking beautifully at the moment.
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As Dianne moves away from oaked chardonnay, we still have a fair number of oaked chardonnays in the cellar. It was pleasant enough, but nothing really stood out for her.
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PnP chilled. Clear, bright deep straw color that almost glowed. Fruity acid nose. Green citrus/apple, light oak, toast, pear, apricot. Not as balanced and integrated as I would like, needs a bit more time. Young, fresh, still a bit tight. $63
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A big fairly buttery Chardonnay with lemon and stone fruit flavors along with a little freshly cut grass. Fulliish mouthfeel. Definitely full throttle, but pleasant and enjoyable.
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For me, this isn't nearly as buttery as some of the other tasting notes describe. Go drink some Rombauer aka 'cougar juice' and you'll see what buttery really means. This wine is very nicely balanced and one of the better examples of California Chardonnay that I've had.
Lots of caramel and butterscotch and nice green fruit and spice. This is another big, bold Cali chard. It's quite nice if you like this style, but at $58 a bottle, the qpr is really very poor.
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Full and rich, this buttery Chardonnay is quite delicious. The nose has strong butter and toast notes and a finish that lingers with a full mouthfeel. There are hints of apple and fig and do find this wine complex.
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I don't get the Kosta Browne mythology. I own a bunch of the Pinots and really like them. But, are they state of the art, classic wines? Sorry to tell you, they aren't. They're very, very up front flavor loaded and a bit short on the complexity. This Chardonnay amplifies the Kosta Browne mystic. It's flavor laden, but when you finish the swallow you say, what's the noise all about? The QPR isn't there. You can get Rombauer, Beringer, Simoneau, and a whole lot of others that are far more complex, elegant and ten to fifteen dollars a bottle less. You may disagree, but really, Wine Spectator be damned, let's be honest about this.
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Drank at Thanksgiving, popped & poured with appetizers. Quince, mellon and ripe pear with smooth, buttery finish. Flavors really opened up as temp came closer to ambient. Recommend holding 2-5 years.
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A cool nose of bright citrus, jasmine and clove leading to a really nice mouth with an awesome finish and mouthfeel. No hard edges what so ever. A really nice chard that we enjoyed on its own.
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Consistent with prior note. Bright, pure fruit with great acidity that counterbalances the oak. Very nice and inviting flavor profile with citrus, pear and apple components. Not overly complex, but certainly an enjoyable and well made Chardonnay. Clear quality of fruit is evident here.
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Two Burgundy lovers and their weekend in Napa Valley (SF/NAPA): Not surprising that this wine would have a boat load of vanilla oak on it. Really big pear and apple on the palate that's fleshy and round with a clipped short finish. Didn't change much over the hour.
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Nice bright yellow in color with light citrus notes and oak in evidence. Quality of fruit supercedes oak application to offer a nice combination of green pear, crisp apple and lemon oil. Nice mouthfeel with a precise delivery and finish.
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Bright apple and pear notes surrounded by a significant oak presence. It shows great purity of fruit and a nice light on the feet flavor profile. This has a chance to continue to evolve and allow the oak to integrate a bit more but drinks quite nicely right now. I like this a lot and look forward to both the current and future vintage evolution.
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A bit heavy on the oak, but overall, solid flavors of apple and pear plus, as noted below, hints of banana. Decent acidity on the relatively short finish.
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14.5% alcohol. Very young and showing tons oak. Medium yellow color. Heavily oaky on the nose, with ripe pear fruit behind it. In the mouth, an intense banana profile initially that falls out into more traditional but ripe apple and pear fruit. A bit monolithic at this point and not showing very much. B
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Lovely combination of citrus and oak intertwined into a larger than life Chardonnay. Great fruit is evident here with a great structure and precision that is to be be admired. This is an excellent sophomore Chardonnay effort for these Pinot magicians.
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Kosta Browne Friday at Home: Abit overoaked for my tastes. Pear and green apple, maybe some quince, some minerally undertones, and just enough acidity to keep it from being overly flabby. Nice, if big Cali chards are to your liking. Not sure it warrants the price tag.
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3/5/2022 - lovemycab wrote:
12 years later and still so much oak on this. Not much primary left, but even if there was with all this oak it's in the background for sure.
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9/6/2020 - matthewmayberry wrote: flawed
Bad bottle. Terrible
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4/5/2020 - mschonholz22 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Drink now
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1/4/2020 - wine247365 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Uncorked about 1 hour before tasting and this is better at a cooler temp. Golden color with very pleasing aromatics. It's in the secondary/teritiary stages of its life, but I believe it will still evolve for the next 3-5 years. On the palate, it's well-balanced, medium-bodied, with a medium minus acidity that's lost it's brightness, but is still fully integrated and became more apparent after 1 1/2 hours. On the palate, very flavorful and suggestive of lanolin on the mid-palate and finish, the caramel on caramel corn, orange marmalade, pear, and cut lemons that have been stored a few days. It was very enjoyable and I'd buy again.
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8/29/2019 - rustyRudy wrote: flawed
Bad bottle, oxidized and oaky
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8/25/2019 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 88 Points
Kiawah Trip 2019; 8/24/2019-9/4/2019 (Kiawah Island): Think I got a “meh” bottle. Premoxed? Over the hill
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1/12/2019 - Acohen Likes this wine: 91 Points
Tons of tropical fruit with pineapple, pear and nice balance
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6/10/2018 - Acohen Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nice smooth chard with tropical fruit, pear and long finish
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6/20/2017 - Acohen Likes this wine: 91 Points
Rich style with tropical fruits, butterscotch nose and pear
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6/5/2017 - Blake Brown Likes this wine: 88 Points
2010 KOSTA BROWNE ONE SIXTEEN VINEYARD RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY CHARDONNAY- tasted blind; light yellow color; toast and flint in the nose joined by honeysuckle, apple and pear fruit in the taste; good feel, but it seems to close up by mid palate and the fruit dries out; most had it as CA and last in the flight as I did.
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5/14/2017 - tfesmgk wrote: 88 Points
A little flat
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2/18/2017 - Acohen Likes this wine: 91 Points
Big rich chard style with lots of tropical fruit
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12/11/2016 - Acohen Likes this wine: 90 Points
Big with apricot and pineapple type notes but opened well and had nice finish
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5/22/2016 - tcarter Likes this wine: 91 Points
Big buttery flavor bomb. Lots and lots of oak. Underneath all that is citrus and fruit--lemon, peach, pineapple--some stone.
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11/27/2015 - lvepicure wrote: 89 Points
Similar notes to T.E.D.
Having had several bottles of the beautiful 2009 and a few 2011's which were gorgeous, i was left disappointed. Not bad, but for the price, expected more.
On the nose heavy new oak and little to no fruit. Thought it might need time and a little opening.
Half hour or 45 minutes later the nose was much the same save for a touch of guava and pineapple. On the palate, dull and heavy cream and a touch of burnt oak, little to no acid, fruit invisible behind the oak influence. Maybe just a bad bottle, will open another in a few weeks to find out.
Kosta Browne Chardonnay is usually the perfect balance of new world oak and Burgundian fruit and influence. Just the right touches of butter,acid, flowers, and fruit.
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8/16/2015 - Senso-beak wrote: 89 Points
Scrumptious and delicious this yellow citrine colored Chardonnay displays a Tropicana bouquet with citrus in the pineapple notes. A little Steely and missing some juicy fruits, this is holding well and not too powerful on the phenols.
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3/28/2015 - prasm Likes this wine: 92 Points
Popped and poured, consumed over 1 hour. Nose: Medium expressiveness, lemon meringue, green apple, crushed rock and hints of licorice. Palate: Medium-full bodied, wonderful creamy mouth-feel, lemon pie and pear flavors up front, solid acidic back-bone and nice mid-palate flavor lift carries through the back-end. Finish: Medium-plus length dominated by lemon meringue and tart pear.
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3/25/2015 - T.E.D. wrote: 92 Points
Ditto my last review. A well made new world style Chardonnay with good Burgundian charectoristics. Nose of juicy citrus, palate a good mix of lush tropical fruit, with good acid on the back palate.
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3/15/2015 - T.E.D. wrote: 89 Points
Pale yellow color, viscous upon a swirl. Nose was initially big tropical fruit, with pineapple, some mango, crystallized ginger. With 45 of air more citrus notes started to emerge. The palate drinks very new world, with big buttery notes, vanilla and toasted oak, a hint of stone but nothing to create a necessary counterbalance. Big and brooding, mom wine for sure!
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3/4/2015 - Andrew H wrote: 87 Points
Medium yellow. Oak more than the light floral fruits come through most prominently.
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2/25/2015 - schott Likes this wine: 91 Points
Excellent Chardonnay in a more fruit, less oak style which is my preference. Great overall balance. Drink it now.
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2/25/2015 - WestJohnson Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pale gold color. Citrus aromas - lemon peel. Racy acidity and rich mouthfeel. Decent minerality. Have not had this wine in quite some time. It is holding well. Drinking beautifully at the moment.
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11/25/2014 - skinut Likes this wine: 89 Points
As Dianne moves away from oaked chardonnay, we still have a fair number of oaked chardonnays in the cellar. It was pleasant enough, but nothing really stood out for her.
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8/21/2014 - Barry Notes Likes this wine: 90 Points
PnP chilled. Clear, bright deep straw color that almost glowed. Fruity acid nose. Green citrus/apple, light oak, toast, pear, apricot. Not as balanced and integrated as I would like, needs a bit more time. Young, fresh, still a bit tight. $63
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6/1/2014 - mreinitz wrote: 91 Points
A big fairly buttery Chardonnay with lemon and stone fruit flavors along with a little freshly cut grass. Fulliish mouthfeel. Definitely full throttle, but pleasant and enjoyable.
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5/24/2014 - mthompson wrote: 92 Points
A very nice, well balanced Chard with crisp apple and fig notes, along with a good mix of minerality and wet stone characteristics.
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6/3/2013 - Rob MacKay wrote: 93 Points
For me, this isn't nearly as buttery as some of the other tasting notes describe. Go drink some Rombauer aka 'cougar juice' and you'll see what buttery really means. This wine is very nicely balanced and one of the better examples of California Chardonnay that I've had.
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5/4/2013 - CADomer Likes this wine: 91 Points
Similar note to my last bottle, but this bottle showed a bit more butterscotch on the nose and richness on the palate.
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2/14/2013 - Neuman wrote: 92 Points
very nice balance. opened nicely as it warmed. take the allocation
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2/9/2013 - mmcdds wrote: 88 Points
Lots of caramel and butterscotch and nice green fruit and spice. This is another big, bold Cali chard. It's quite nice if you like this style, but at $58 a bottle, the qpr is really very poor.
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2/1/2013 - Schiffy wrote: 93 Points
Full and rich, this buttery Chardonnay is quite delicious. The nose has strong butter and toast notes and a finish that lingers with a full mouthfeel. There are hints of apple and fig and do find this wine complex.
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1/26/2013 - brujazz wrote: 90 Points
I don't get the Kosta Browne mythology. I own a bunch of the Pinots and really like them. But, are they state of the art, classic wines? Sorry to tell you, they aren't. They're very, very up front flavor loaded and a bit short on the complexity. This Chardonnay amplifies the Kosta Browne mystic. It's flavor laden, but when you finish the swallow you say, what's the noise all about? The QPR isn't there. You can get Rombauer, Beringer, Simoneau, and a whole lot of others that are far more complex, elegant and ten to fifteen dollars a bottle less. You may disagree, but really, Wine Spectator be damned, let's be honest about this.
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1/24/2013 - Mohsman wrote: 94 Points
Beautifully balanced, smooth yet crisp, pear with hint of honeycrisp apple. Long finish
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11/23/2012 - raydawgone wrote: 90 Points
Drank at Thanksgiving, popped & poured with appetizers. Quince, mellon and ripe pear with smooth, buttery finish. Flavors really opened up as temp came closer to ambient. Recommend holding 2-5 years.
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11/2/2012 - CADomer wrote: 91 Points
Quite nice with notes of citrus and white flowers on the nose followed by apples and pears on the luscious palate.
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9/17/2012 - CRAUBER4242 wrote: 92 Points
A cool nose of bright citrus, jasmine and clove leading to a really nice mouth with an awesome finish and mouthfeel. No hard edges what so ever. A really nice chard that we enjoyed on its own.
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9/13/2012 - beezer6 wrote: 92 Points
California Wine Country with Jill for our 30th's; 9/9/2012-9/15/2012 (California): Private tour and tasting with Michael Browne.
Honeyed pear and lemons and banana. Lots of minerals, chalky and pure with focus.
Great balance. Long finish and really really nice. Understated. Great wine.
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8/30/2012 - air guitar & pinot noir wrote: 91 Points
Consistent with prior note. Bright, pure fruit with great acidity that counterbalances the oak. Very nice and inviting flavor profile with citrus, pear and apple components. Not overly complex, but certainly an enjoyable and well made Chardonnay. Clear quality of fruit is evident here.
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8/22/2012 - clayfu wrote:
Two Burgundy lovers and their weekend in Napa Valley (SF/NAPA): Not surprising that this wine would have a boat load of vanilla oak on it. Really big pear and apple on the palate that's fleshy and round with a clipped short finish. Didn't change much over the hour.
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8/11/2012 - air guitar & pinot noir wrote: 91 Points
Nice bright yellow in color with light citrus notes and oak in evidence. Quality of fruit supercedes oak application to offer a nice combination of green pear, crisp apple and lemon oil. Nice mouthfeel with a precise delivery and finish.
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7/13/2012 - air guitar & pinot noir wrote: 92 Points
Bright apple and pear notes surrounded by a significant oak presence. It shows great purity of fruit and a nice light on the feet flavor profile. This has a chance to continue to evolve and allow the oak to integrate a bit more but drinks quite nicely right now. I like this a lot and look forward to both the current and future vintage evolution.
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5/25/2012 - WineGeneral wrote: 90 Points
A bit heavy on the oak, but overall, solid flavors of apple and pear plus, as noted below, hints of banana. Decent acidity on the relatively short finish.
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5/16/2012 - gutt22 wrote:
14.5% alcohol. Very young and showing tons oak. Medium yellow color. Heavily oaky on the nose, with ripe pear fruit behind it. In the mouth, an intense banana profile initially that falls out into more traditional but ripe apple and pear fruit. A bit monolithic at this point and not showing very much. B
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5/11/2012 - air guitar & pinot noir wrote: 92 Points
Lovely combination of citrus and oak intertwined into a larger than life Chardonnay. Great fruit is evident here with a great structure and precision that is to be be admired. This is an excellent sophomore Chardonnay effort for these Pinot magicians.
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4/22/2012 - bonedoc wrote: 92 Points
Nice ripe fruit profile, good acidity, something not quite balanced but the purity of the fruit made this quite enjoyable.
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4/15/2012 - Tparker wrote: 94 Points
- Yellow color with slow forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of apple with a medium/full body. Smooth texture with a long finish.
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3/16/2012 - mmcdds wrote: 89 Points
Kosta Browne Friday at Home: Abit overoaked for my tastes. Pear and green apple, maybe some quince, some minerally undertones, and just enough acidity to keep it from being overly flabby. Nice, if big Cali chards are to your liking. Not sure it warrants the price tag.
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