Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Karia, Napa Valley

Very nice. Had with chicken and pasta. Well integrated with smooth and slightly creamy finish. Honey and tropical notes but not too sweet. Despite the age, well worth drinking if you still have it.

2014 vintage

shared with pat at selkirk manor. i continue to prune the cellar of bottles with past due drink by dates. no formal notes. showing some signs of age but still enjoyable. nothing special here. an adequate daily drinker. pair with light fair.

2014 vintage

Acid M Tannin nope Pear apple honeydew. Honey finish pineapple

2009 vintage

I can't quite go 89 points on this wine. Disclaimer: I am not a huge California Chardonnay fan. This wine was a gift. That being said, it is a nice wine for what it is. A little too buttery and oaky for me. I prefer a nice Chablis so that is where my taste preference lies. Nice acidity with caramel notes. I am not getting much fruit at all. Still some life left but I would drink up soon. Probably …

2014 vintage

Buttery with stone fruit notes. Golden and with a floral nose. Creamy full body.

2014 vintage

Maybe if they waited!

2007 vintage

PNP. Color of golden straw. I don’t drink much Chardonnay, but this seems a nice example of the CA example: buttery oak, ripe citrus fruit, but not over the top, and with enough acidity to keep it from being flabby. A caramel element is coming with age. Full bodied for a white, almost creamy mouthfeel. I think this has rounded out, but don’t see it improving. Drink up.

2014 vintage

Tastes great.

2014 vintage

Luscious and velvety. All parts well integrated. Some peach and tropical fruit, great balance and quite elegant one. Drank next to Drouhin Les Clos 2011 and both wines showed quite well and surprise surprise, there were more similarities than differences.

2009 vintage

As many other reviewers have stated, nice oaky, buttery, fruity CA chardonnay. Avoids being overstated in any component. Lovely to drink now.

2014 vintage

Butter, caramel, and apple...along with tropical fruit, honeysuckle, citrus, and mineral notes. Zippy acidity. Delicious from start to finish. Paired well with baked salmon.

2014 vintage

During a tasting of miscellaneous regions/varietals. Medium-light gold. Expressive nose of lemon, toast, oak, vanilla, modern but lovely. The palate is creamy with high acidity. Good finish. A well made Calif Chard that is not too rich.

2014 vintage

Nice. Crisp with some oak flavors. Could use some more time in the cellar I think

2014 vintage

Cilantro, green brightness in nose. Nutty, toasty, caramel, brown butter flavor. Citrus, hop notes in finish. Great with roasted almonds, saffron, dried cranberry quinoa

2014 vintage

Restrained and elegant. Just enough oak, but really pure varietal character. Very enjoyable.

2014 vintage

Fairly buttery, though not too much; nice balance of oak with hint of lemon zest. Very nice!

2014 vintage

Pretty good considering its 10 yrs old. Always kept at 55 degrees.

2007 vintage

The wine looks yellow gold colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle.

2014 vintage

I agree with the reviewer that indicated this one is smooth, buttery and oaky. I think this is a good value and drinking well now. I'd definitely get this one again.

2014 vintage

Restrained, particularly for Napa Valley Chardonnay. The readily noticeable, though not overdone oak treatment, imparts melon rind and waxy elements to the wine. Light to medium body, very good acid, solid.

2014 vintage

Winebar [2 Shared Reds, 3 Chards, & 6 Misc Reds] for 5/26/17 (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA) : N: Toast somewhat atop lemons, but attractively so P: MF body; Somewhat rndish entry with decent frt/oak & BRACING mid palate acidity, this morphing into a long finish with only the barest hint of oaky harshness. A reasonable value for drinking over the next 6-12 mos -- before, I suspect, oaky edginess dominates the frt. 91 pts WE, 90 WA, 88 …

2014 vintage

Clear medium lemon. A nose of Chinese pear, green apple, oak, cream, slight caramel. Developing. High acidity, full body, medium+ intensity of green apple, oak, lemon zest and a touch of caramel. Medium+ finish. More rounded on the nose than the palate. 90-91 pts.

2014 vintage

Medium golden, rich, pretty well-balanced, but ultimately lacking sufficient acidity.

2014 vintage

Big buttery vanilla nose typical of a California chard with soft notes of lemon curd and citrus. Mouthfeel is unctuous and oily, with plenty of malolactic and vanillin oak forming the main structure on the mid-palate. Buttery cookie dough notes are followed by echoes of lemon curd from the nose. A big mouth filling chard that is very quaffable but not sufficiently complex or unique enough in its category to warrant a 90+ score.

2014 vintage

Seriously oaky nose. Lots of butter on the tongue, but, also, tropical fruits, and, maybe, citrus fruits. Fruit component is most in the acid, which, thankfully, cuts the oaky better a bit.

2014 vintage

Good as I remembered, but not the best. Might need different vintage. Served at 48 deg. Plain nose nothing spectacular for the price.

2014 vintage

Retailer tasting; just short notes. (@ AB) : Beautiful bouquet with caramel and butterscotch. On the palate a full bodied wine with tropical yellow fruits, vanilla and good acidity. I really like it.

2014 vintage

Made in a rich and minerally style, this is youthful and very primary at this point. Citrus, jack fruit, and malo aromas and flavors, with a cyanic peach pit note that should ebb once this settles. Warm finish.

2014 vintage

This feels and tastes like a mass produced wine which is so white washed that it neither tastes good nor bad. Citrus notes dominate with a rather sour medium length finish of grapefruit notes.

2014 vintage

Commodore Waterfront Restaurant, Key West. Our third and best chardonnay so far on our jaunt over the pond. This was taut with core of minerality and great depth. Filled out in the glass revealing crisp pear and melon elements. Excellent. Barely ready for drinking: ideally 2018-2020.

2014 vintage

On the verge of completely cracking up. Tastes of Madeira and rank caramel upon opening. Some of that blows off with time, leaving a sort of sweet-sickly taste, almonds, and citrus. From Trader Joe's. Not recommended.

2014 vintage

JM tastes Napa! (Napa) : Pretty chard, butterscotch, green apples, creamy butter. Nutty. 4.5 month in french oak. Herbaceous leafy with fruity edge. Textural, with intriguing cinnamon dusting and white pepper at the end.

2014 vintage

Really worth keeping this long, but potentially could last even longer because there's still good acid, fruit and structure. A rich gold colour - bright. A rounded nose of burnt butter, apples and some citrus. A lovely complex taste with citrus, apples and tropical fruits over a buttery, biscuity backbone. Delicious.

2007 vintage

Delicious. Wonderful nose, hard to move away to actually taste...but I must. Buttery oak delight. But back to the nose...absolutely sensational. Transports you to the vineyards on a warm spring eve. So good.

2014 vintage

st the edge of the window but still golden

2007 vintage

Started out strong but very quickly became ordinary. I have loved the other bottles so I think this has passed its prime. It was not awful; just not as good as before.

2009 vintage

Loved it. Consistent with prior notes.

2009 vintage

Wonderful Chardonnay at the price point. Very drinkable. Well balanced, light and crisp without being overly buttery.

2009 vintage

Was expecting more here. Slight butter/oak, decent but not great.

2009 vintage

Soft and buttery

2009 vintage

Consistent with prior notes. This is tasting very good right now.

2009 vintage

Pretty sour wine. Very disappointing.

2009 vintage

Nice Chardonnay. Lighter than most in colour. Definitely lighter on the palate with notes of pear. It drinks very easily and great with appetizers. It still has the buttery rich texture of a Chardonnay but finishes very quickly. All around a very nice bottle.

2009 vintage

This was a little more oaky than I had remembered it being. Also a little more baked apple and riper than I remember. Ann liked it more than me this time.

2009 vintage

Nice, crisp, apples, not smokey, but full.

2009 vintage

I drank a bottle of this wine earlier in the year and hoped that it was shocked or that it might improve. Unfortunately, it taste exactly the same. It's no offensive but is certainly one of the most boring wines that I have tasted all year.

2009 vintage

- Light gold color - An atypical California Chardonnay. Not heavily oaked or too buttery. In keeping with its old world style, this is a well balanced wine. Some stone fruits and minerals on the nose. Oak shows up in the lingering finish. Enough acidity to go well with Chinese food. Enjoyable.

2009 vintage

Decent, but not outstanding. A bit flat. Lacking in structure.

2009 vintage

Lovely nose of vanilla and stone fruit, and a butterscotch palate that is like an unsweetened caramel fruit candy. Savory and long and in balance. Would buy again for the $20-25 range.

2009 vintage

Really gorgeous wine. Smooth delivery, soft tropical fruit and pear with creamy acidity and a dollop of quality oak. The three components meld perfectly together. Not particularly complex, and a little overpriced in the UK, but I'm not complaining too much. Still, not quite as good as offerings from Shaw and Smith or Hamilton Russell for similar money.

2009 vintage

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