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This is a really nice medium to full-bodied lush California Chardonnay with a good dose of butter aromas and flavors that were nicely balanced between pear and apple. There isn’t much citrus going on here but that is ok. The flavors are more savory leaning towards baked apple and vanilla spice. We had this with [...]

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Hahn winery has been producing wine for decades in California’s central coast. In German, “Hahn” means “Rooster” and for this reason a rooster embellishes the Hahn Winery label, honoring the Hahn family’s European heritage. Here are a few value wines I recently tasted which are worth finding at your local store: 2010 Hahn Monterey Pinot [...]

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2008 was a pretty good year for ancient vine Zinfandel. This wine had classic Sonoma old vine characteristics. The aromas that emanate from the glass after pouring exposes the unmistakable smell of toasted oak and plum. The 8% of Petite Sirah add a little dark floral to the aromas and stretch the large structure of [...]

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A straightforward wine, I found it very pleasurable although without a lot of frills. A little more plush or lush would have knocked it out of the park. The distinctive Sonoma Merlot qualities in the flavor profile presented here seemed a bit diminished compared to past efforts tasted from this AVA. Overall, there were no [...]

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A Sonoma Coast AVA Pinot noir produced by a winery from Lompoc that starts out a little burly for a Pinot noir. Not quite to the point of being hurly burly which is a good thing and being burly is not necessarily a bad thing in a red wine, it’s just not a style you [...]

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I have to say I am a little embarrassed to mention that this is the first vintage of Landmark Chardonnay I have ever tasted. It is even more embarrassing when I think of how many times I have been to wine tastings in Kenwood, California. Considering the notoriety of this vineyard and how many times [...]

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