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[FargleSnargle.com] 2002 Barnett Vineyards Sangiacomo Vineyard Sonoma Valley Chardonnay: September 8, 20042002 Barnett Vineyards Sangiacomo Vineyard Sonoma Valley Chardonnay $15This was highly recommended by Sonya and Richard, so I picked up a couple of bottles. It lived up to their comments. It very much reminds me of the 1999 Ridge Monte Bello Chardonnay that I love.

[Farglesnargle.com] FargleSnargle.com » Blog Archive » 2002 Barnett Vineyards ...: September 8, 20042002 Barnett Vineyards Sangiacomo Vineyard Sonoma Valley Chardonnay $15This was highly recommended by Sonya and Richard, so I picked up a couple of bottles. It lived up to their comments. It very much reminds me of the 1999 Ridge Monte Bello Chardonnay that I love.

[Farglesnargle.com] FargleSnargle.com: Yep, it was five bucks, and I bought it at Trader Joe’s. It is probably the soon to dry up wine glut that brought us the likes of “Two-buck Chuck” in recent years. All I can say is given the choice between the two for something to drink with pizza or spaghetti, choose this one. For the price, it is a nice blend of Grenache, Mourvedre, Syrah and Zinfandel.

[Farglesnargle.com] FargleSnargle.com » 2004 » October: September 8, 20042002 Barnett Vineyards Sangiacomo Vineyard Sonoma Valley Chardonnay $15This was highly recommended by Sonya and Richard, so I picked up a couple of bottles. It lived up to their comments. It very much reminds me of the 1999 Ridge Monte Bello Chardonnay that I love.

[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: Undiscovered Wines Archives: A mere 100 cases of this wine is extracted from 18 acres of prime Pinot Noir vineyard located at the mouth of the Anderson valley as it opens up to the Mendocino Coast. Known as the Oppenlander Vineyard, it is named after homesteaders with the name Oppenlander, who eked out a living on this property in the 1860's and were so isolated from the rest of the country that they and other residents at the time were able to continue growing wine grapes straight through the years of Prohibition. Interest in growing grapes in this region waned in the early part of the century, but picked up gain in the 1970s after wineries like Roederer Champagne cellars were established. According to the Oxford Companion for wine, scouts from Roederer Estate searched high and low in California for "somewhere with weather as bleak as north eastern France" and found it here.

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