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1997 Saintsbury Chardonnay Carneros
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About Saintsbury

In 1977, David Graves and Richard Ward met for the first time in a oenology class at UC Davis. Both Pinot Noir lovers, they decided to start bottling their own. By 1981 they had released their first vintage, 2000 cases from purchased Carneros grapes.

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1997 Saintsbury Chardonnay Carneros

Producer: Saintsbury
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Chardonnay
Origin: California
Region: Other California
Appellation: Carneros

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Sugar anyone?
03/20/2001
by chard10435623
Way way too sweet for a chardonnay - tasted almost like a cheap white zin
DO NOT BUY THIS
12/10/2000
by whiner51
I like lots of wines. This is one of the only wines I've ever had which I had no desire to keep drinking. I wonder if it was, perhaps, a bad bottle, though acidity was not the issue.

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Chardonnay

The best Chardonnays in the world continue to arrive from the region where the grape first emerged: the chalk, clay, and limestone vineyards of Burgundy and Chablis. While the origins of the grape were disputed for many years, with some speculating that the grape came all the way from the Middle East, DNA researchers at the University of California-Davis proved in 1999 that Chardonnay actually developed...
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