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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Kloseframe on 3/17/2024 & rated 91 points: This really hit the spot for the first days of Spring. I'm not the biggest sparkling wine drinker, but I like the freshness of this wine. I have three bottles, so I'll probably sit on the other two for a bit. Glad to try one of these young, though. (1778 views) | | | Tasted by rawdealbuffy on 2/23/2024: Beautiful silken mousse. Nose of fresh cream, choux pastry, and lemon zest. Lemon curd, creme fraiche, and lavender oil on the palate. Loads of minerality. Great wine. (2084 views) | | | Tasted by hprphf on 2/23/2024 & rated 91 points: Disgorged 11.8.23. Light version of a beer, easy to drink but not quite substantial, also on the sweet side. 91 (2079 views) | | | Tasted by SH Wu on 2/4/2024 & rated 90 points: Needs some air - vibrant with a fresh citrus acidity out of the bottle. Fruits unfurl after some time in glass, but likely will show much better with more bottle age.
Great start of the night drinker now, but can become much more with age. (1889 views) | | | Tasted by jrsobeck on 1/8/2024 & rated 92 points: As always, a great wine. Toasty flavor and nice finish. Highly recommend. (2653 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 1/6/2024 flawed bottle: Not so sure I'm too stoked on the track record here with some of these sparklers. This one opened up with extremely aggressive bubbles (and yes, it has been resting on its side and treated with kid gloves since coming directly from the winery, and subsequent quiet cellaring). As soon as it hit the glass, it was flatter than a starving Placozoan hit by a road roller. No discernable flavors at all. A bit of a prickly texture on the tail, but that's about it. Otherwise, it's a dirt nap zombie appetizer kind of experience.
Disgorged November 14, 2023... or perhaps 1953? (3469 views) | | | Tasted by jviz on 1/2/2024 & rated 92 points: Bright, crisp, lime driven, with good minerals and while oxidative, less noticeably so than previous bottles. This one is all coiled up at the moment. If you like that, great - it's more Cedric Bouchard than Ulysse Collin at the moment. (2344 views) |
| Ultramarine Producer websiteChardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeKeefer Ranch Details on weinlagen-infoUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma Coast * Sonoma Coast AVA (Wikipedia)
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