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We are honored that the White House featured our Ryo-fu Chardonnay at a recent State Dinner welcoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the United States. Reveal more
LE.PAN: The small Sonoma winery with Asian ambitions; “We don’t manipulate anything. We just try to grow the best fruit and bring out the best of it. That’s our philosophy.” Reveal more
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Dan Berger's Vintage Experience
Exceptional: 2010 Freeman Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, “Ryo-fu”
This cool-climate, cool-year wine has a distinctive Burgundian note along with the citrus/lemon curd aroma of other cool-region Chardonnays. If served chilled, the wine will be a bit mute. Great acid and structure. Served with cream-based foods and not too cold. |
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Press Democrat
Pinot noir's earthy spices pair with duck breast dish
Our Wine of the Week, Freeman 2010 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir ($44), is a fine expression of this increasingly popular varietal in one of the best regions for growing it, western Sonoma County. A blend of fruit from five small vineyards results in a complex wine with deeply concentrated flavors suggestive of Bing cherries, red raspberries and Santa Rosa plums, with fine threads of licorice root and a veritable cupboard of earthy spice, including allspice, cardamom, clove, star anise and cassia. There's sassafras root, too which, combined with the broad foundation of spice, might have you thinking of root beer.... |
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