Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Chardonnay 2013
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
A wine for all seasons, the 2013 Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay Grand Reserve has brought all on the table: beautifully ripened fruit, sweet oak and tactile smoothness on the palate and more. Medium straw, green color; loaded with creamy oak in the nose, nice ripe core fruit too; medium bodied, just a bit rounded on the palate; dryish, some residual sugar, nicely balanced; ripe fruit and sweet oak in the flavors; medium finish, smooth and rounded aftertaste. (Tasted: April 13, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
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Back in 1974, Jess Jackson saw in the fine vineyards of California's cool coastal regions fruit with a variety of outstanding flavors. What if there was a way to produce from this abundance, a single outstanding "cuvée" that offered both quality and value? The result, first released in 1983, was Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay, a rich, round and flavorful wine, made with hand-crafted methods. That same year, Grand Reserve was introduced, a line of ultra-premium wines that represented the full potential of California's finest vineyards and winemaking.
Today, over 5,000 acres of vineyard in California's coastal regions are farmed by Kendall-Jackson. Four separate wineries house what is possibly the single largest barrel-fermentation project in the world. But perhaps most important, is that Kendall-Jackson remains a family-owned winery.