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2010 Chardonnay Ryo-fu

Wine Details
Producer

Freeman

Place of Origin

United States

Green Valley of Russian River Valley

Sonoma

Color

White

Grape/Blend

Chardonnay (2023 vintage)

Vintages
2023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200620052004
Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2013 - 2018

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Akiko Freeman originally studied Renaissance art in Florence. She brings a keen aesthetic sense to the wines she makes with her husband Ken and their consulting winemaker Ed Kurtzman. These delicate, refined wines are quite pretty, but my sense is that the best is yet to come, as Akiko Freeman is just at the beginning of her career as a winemaker.

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Associate winemaker Brian Buffington told me that he's keen on the results attained by heritage, or heirloom, pinot clones because "they offer better complexity than the big fruit you get from Dijon clones." In fact, owners Akiko and Ken Freeman chose to plant their own estate vineyard, above their home on the west side of Sebastopol, to Calera and Swan pinot clones. The wines here continue to move toward a more precise style and 2010 was a vintage that Buffington said "clearly favors brightness and red fruit over richness and darker fruit, which you definitely get from '09."