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Winemaker Terry Adams is quick to admit that Sonoma-Cutrer's objective is to make food wines: "we're looking for fresh, brilliant fruit flavors rather than butterscotchy malolactic notes and obvious new oak." Indeed, about 95% of Sonoma-Cutrer's annual production of roughly 130,000 cases of chardonnay is sold through the winery's countless restaurant accounts. Adams describes the '97 vintage as a very good one, despite his early worries about lack of flavor intensity and overripeness (a good bit of the '97 crop was sold off due to botrytis). The '98s, he says, are not quite ripe enough. I detected a slight bitter edge on their finishes, perhaps a combination of less-than-ideal ripeness and the wines' oak components. My preview of the '99s suggests that this vintage will surpass both '98 and '97.

From Focus on California (May 2000) by Stephen Tanzer

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1998 Chardonnay Russian River Ranches

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