87
points
Sutter Home 2000 Chardonnay (California)
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$6
This wine recalls the glory days of a decade ago, when there were dozens of delicious California Chardonnays available for under $8. Today this sort of forward, fruity, ripe, round wine is more likely to cost you twice that. Yet here is a creamy, cleanly made wine, showing plump, fresh fruit flavors and a lingering finish. Just 1.9 million cases made.
— P.G.
(11/15/2001)
84
points
Sutter Home 1999 Chardonnay (California)
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$6
A blast of clean, ripe citrus, peach and pear fruit greets you from this well-made, if simple, wine. There are vanilla and smoke elements from wood. It’s a little soft, and a tad off-dry, but if you need a case of something white to quench the throats of party-goers who aren’t real particular, this is the ticket.
— S.H.
(2/1/2001)