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Kunde Estate Chardonnay Sonoma Valley Reserve 2005

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Winery:
Kunde Family Estate
Varietal:
Chardonnay
Region:
USA > California > Sonoma County > Sonoma Coast
Type:
White Wine
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User Tags:  nuts, oak, resinous, cashew, oak - heavy, acidic, tropical fruits, mouthful, mango, fruit 


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What to Expect

Chardonnay is America's most popular grape and with good reason. Made in styles that range from steely, mineral laced wines with crisp green apple fruit to wines that are buttery, rich, and laden with tropical fruits, there is a Chardonnay that will appeal to every palate. Chardonnay is most closely associated with France's Burgundy region and California's Northern valleys though it has proven successful around the globe.

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Winemaker's Comments
"Imagine a wine with aromas of fresh apples, pears, and yeasty bread dough. Imagine a wine with rich, luscious flavors of baked apples spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, made lively by good natural acidity. Imagine that it is the 2005 Kunde Estate Reserve Chardonnay - wait! No imagination required! That wine is the 2005 Kunde Reserve. Now imagine it with fettucine in cream sauce studded with bay shrimp. Yummy!"

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Snooth User: Philip
Philip
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7,651

Very buttery and nutty. The nose on this wine is unique - cashew nuts and peanut brittle mingle with bruised over ripe papaya and mango. In the mouth the wine is very emollient with a very silky mouth filling feel. Lots of oak in the wine, giving it a great golden color, some sugar and a butteriness. The wine has undergone malolactic fermentation and the remaining acids, which are quite firm and strong, are now more supple and milky. I liked it, but it was a little too fruity, oaky and sweet for some.


September 2009

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Snooth User: solomania9
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Spicy nutty nose. A soft flavor of musty yellow caramel and a good deal of lactic acid. Interesting for a glass but not two.


September 2009

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Snooth User: Nicki Gig
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classic example of a Cali Chardonnay, aromas of oak, bruised fruit, golden apples, brittle cashew, tropical and overflowing with warm fruit and tastes of the oak


September 2009

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Snooth User: mark
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Lots of nutty character, oak and roasted nuts. Vanilla. A nutty oak-bomb.


September 2009

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Sonoma Harvest Fair 2008 - Gold Medal


November 2008

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Snooth User: jmm29
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So smooth. What an excellent surprise for an impulse buy.


January 2009

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