2010 Varner Chardonnay Spring Ridge Vineyard Amphitheater Block

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  12/1/2021 - Jd6725 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Perfectly solid, aged mountain cali chard. Likely 3-5 years past it's peak for me though. Minimal fruit left. Drink up.

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  9/26/2021 - 560 B&W Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Even with a decant and several more years of age, this still has too much oak for me. Better with food, of course. 13.5%

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  7/10/2020 - 312 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Popped and poured. Served with antipasto of grilled vegetables fresh from the farm and dinner of pasta with olives and Ortiz tuna. Give this wine some time to breathe. Color of Meyer lemon. Nose of almond, vanilla and a faint hint of jasmine or honeysuckle. Medium to full body. Very well structured. Notes of Meyer lemon, key lime and a little oak complement the minerality. Long finish. Drinking quite well after 10 years.
  
  According to the vineyard, the Amphitheater Block is 2 acres on a south-facing slope at 780 to 735 ft. elevation with 32 year old vines (probably Wente clone) on their own roots.
  
  The block is 10 miles from the Pacific Ocean in the northern Santa Cruz Mountains appellation. It is dry-farmed, non-fertilized, hand-hoed with no insecticides.
  
  The vines are grown on porous, young (1-3 million years old) fractured sedimentary rock.
  
  The vineyard employs minimally settled juice, indigenous yeast and malo-lactic bacteria, barrel fermentation, hand-racked using an esquive and hand-cranked barrel tilting device.
  
  All french oak, twenty-five percent new, featuring Jupilles forest.

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  3/8/2020 - Frijole wrote:

  medium gold, lots of clarity, silvery hue
  Nose: pear, green apple, lime, brioche, allspice, minerals, white pepper, oak
  Pal: pear, green apple, lime, brioche, allspice, white pepper, minerals, oak
  Feel: full, acidic
  Finish: long
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  10/28/2018 - bonedoc wrote: 93 Points

  Last bottle, great stuff.

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