Wine Review: Smith-Madrone Chardonnay

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🗓️ 12 March 2013

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

I recently did a review of the wines from Smith-Madrone, a small winery located on Spring Mountain in the Napa Valley. If you read it you know I loved the Cabernet and thought the Riesling was good but I hated the Chardonnay. Well, the winery contacted me and said they thought the bottle I reviewed didn’t sound like their wine. They sent a new one and sure enough, it was true. So we did an audio review of the wine with NEW tasting notes that can be found on the blog. We hope to do these on a regular basis, just to give you a little geekery between podcasts!!! Enjoy! [...]

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0:00.0	We've decided that we're going to throw in a couple of wine reviews just
0:14.8	talking about this wine that we are drinking in between podcasts which take a very
0:19.9	long time to edit and we're very sorry. We're a two-man band here, so we apologize for not turning them out quick enough,
0:26.7	but maybe these will help tie you over.
0:28.2	Ellie takes exception to that.
0:30.1	Oh, that's right.
0:31.0	Ellie is the third member of the band, and she makes the most noise.
0:34.4	She must be the percussionist.
0:35.6	That's right.
0:37.6	Today we're talking about the 2010 Smith Madron from Spring Mountain in Napa Valley. It's a Chardonnay. This wine is an exceptional
0:47.5	pairing with Crow.
0:50.5	What?
0:51.5	I have to eat some Crow. So the winery actually sent us this bottle of wine to review and we
1:00.0	tasted it and it was disgusting, like disgusting, terrible, undrinkable.
1:06.6	I drink anything and I couldn't get past two sips.
1:09.7	It was thick, it was heavy, it was full of oak, it it had no balance and I was really surprised because
1:15.3	they sent a cabernet and a ruelling and a shardine and those are the three wines that they make we've had
1:19.8	wines from Spring Mountain before they have a lighter touch on the oak. They have
1:25.0	lots of nice acidity, good fruit, but they're not big oak bombs. That's usually
1:29.7	not how the winemakers choose to play it. So I was kind of surprised but hey you
1:34.1	know what that was the wine that was sent so I published the review and I got a call
1:37.7	from the winery and they said that doesn't sound like our wine and I believe them because given how great the cab was and the fact that the
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