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2002 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Beppi Crosariol, The Globe and Mail, CAN Recommended

With the 2002, there's still a trademark dollop of residual sugar in the mid-palate, to be sure, but the wine is exceptionally well-balanced. Deliciously crowd-pleasing, with a fat core of ripe, tropical fruit, it finishes decidedly dry, with a nice prickle of acidity. The oak is subtle and well-integrated--far from conspicuous.

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2002 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Dan Berger, Press Democrat, CA Recommended - Most Consistent Chardonnay

Always shows excellent fruit components, has a touch of oak flavors, and the balance is impeccable. At less than $15, this wine always satisfies.

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2002 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Dan Berger, Napa Valley Register, CA Recommended - Wine of the Week

Stylish fruit and lovely balance in this mildly scented, complex white wine. The fruit is more citrussy than I have seen in the past, and the balance focuses more on the fruit than on oak. A nicely crafted effort.

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2002 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Dan Berger, Los Angeles Times, CA

Kendall-Jackson, founded 22 years ago, is renowned for its widely distributed Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay...(K-J) has made radical changes in how they make their wines, and that commitment is now showing up in their new releases…The latest version of this $12 (Vintner’s Reserve) Chardonnay 2002 is surprisingly better structured and more flavorful than any past version, and Ullom has developed a system to make the wine more consistent than in the past.

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2002 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Editor, Food & Wine - Wine Guide ** Recommended

dry, medium-bodied, light oak, medium acidity. Always reliable for its ripe fruit flavors, K-J's Vintner's Reserve has gotten positively zingy in the 2002 vintage.

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2002 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Tom Marquardt and Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD Recommended

Curse the common quality of this wine, but it's more than luck that makes the Vintner's Reserve the second-most popular restaurant chardonnay and the top-selling chardonnay in stores. You get a lot of flavor for your money and a touch of sweetness that so many consumers love. Forward fruit flavors include peaches and tropical fruit. It's quite a mouthful.

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2001 20th Harvest Release Chardonnay
Editor, Wine Access Recommended

Celebrating 20 years as one of California's most popular chardonnay producers, this is a blend sourced from six different coastal appellations, barrel fermented and aged seven months in French oak. It's a typically soft, easy yet complex and very tasty K-J chardonnay, with generous butterscotch, spice and pineapple-banana fruit. Warm, creamy and sweetish on the finish, with very good to excellent length.

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2001 20th Harvest Release Chardonnay
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine

Youthful aromas of fresh pears and Gala Apples sit beneath a mild veneer of creamy oak in its attractive aromas, yet, once in the mouth, the wine is very simple, never so well defined in fruit and slightly sugary in character with crisp, slightly citric acidity stiffening its finish.

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2001 20th Harvest Release Chardonnay
Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD

This chardonnay, celebrating K-J's 20th anniversary, is a wonderfully rich wine with tropical fruit and pear flavors. Lush mouthfeel and good depth of character.

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2001 20th Harvest Release Chardonnay
Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD Recommended

This is the wine that started Jess Jackson's wine empire. It's hard to believe it has been around for 20 years. We remember this wine clobbering a nice batch of expensive white burgundies in a blind tasting 18 years ago. It's still fun to drink with its tropical fruit flavors and hint of citrus and toasty oak. We're sure to see this in another 20 years.

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2001 Stature Chardonnay
Anthony Gismondi, Wine Access Our Top 100 Wines of 2004

Made entirely from a single block on the Santa Maria Bench, K-J's Chardonnay is big and rich on the nose with peach, mango, honey, creamy spicy lees fruit. Wow.

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2001 Grand Reserve Chardonnay
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine One Puff - Fine example of a type or style of wine. Without notable flaws.

Sweet themes of juicy apples play the lead to entirely supportive oak first in the nose and then again in the flavors of this up-front offering, and, while acidity firms up things by mid-palate, it does so without taking away from the wine's generally juicy nature.

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2001 Grand Reserve Chardonnay
Tom Marquardt and Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD Recommended

Made from grapes from Santa Barbara, Monterey and Sonoma County, this is a full-throttle California Chardonnay. We prefer this wine as a stand alone since its big tropical fruit and elegant oak aging make this a wine to ponder and savor. A full symphony all by itself.

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2001 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Paul Gregutt, Seattle Times, WA Top 10 Chardonnays

Round and rich, with tangy orange/pineapple fruit and a hint of sweetness.

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2001 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine

KJ's least expensive Chardonnay is a straightforward look at the varietal and features both sweet apple- and pear-like qualities with minimal intrusion from oak. It shows an edge of sugar to its soft and easy flavors, but its ultimate use is as a simple, light quaff or mealtime mate.

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2001 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Tom Marquardt and Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD Recommended

Made from coastal grapes, this chardonnay has all the bells and whistles: barrel fermentation, whole-cluster pressing and malolactic fermentation. Forward tropical fruit flavors, butterscotch oak and butter aromas. Maybe there's too much going on here, but it doesn't lack flavor.

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2001 Single Vineyard Series Camelot Bench Chardonnay
Editor, San Francisco Chronicle, CA Top Pick

Orange blossom character atop sweet vanilla, toast, lime, baking spice and baked apples; flavors of mango, banana, pear and tropical fruit; round and full with decent acidity on the finish that shows some citrus and more toasty oak.

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2000 Great Estates Chardonnay Arroyo Seco
Editor, Press Democrat, CA Four Stars - Wine of the Week

Rich and ripe. Peach, pear and citrus fruit aromas carry through in the flavors. A hint of spice. Nice, lingering finish.

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2000 Great Estates Chardonnay Santa Barbara County
Fred Tasker, Miami Herald, FL Recommended

Vanilla aromas, sweet golden-apple flavors, rich, fat, sweet.

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2000 Stature Chardonnay
Editor, San Francisco Chronicle, CA Top Pick

Rich and buttery - a big wine with sweetness on entry. Clean, bright aromas and flavors of vanilla, orange zest, papaya, fresh pineapple with toast and toffee. Nice balance of oak and malolactic characteristics.

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2000 Grand Reserve Chardonnay
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine One Puff; Fine example of a type or style of wine with no notable flaws

Fresh mildly blossomy, slightly pineappley fruit emerges nicely with balanced oak and hints of sweet butter in the immediate aromas of this juicy youngster, and its open flavors run parallel in their bias to tropical fruit.

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2000 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Leslie Sbrocco, The New York Times, NY Wines of the Week, 3.5 stars

A consistently popular wine full of apple and pear fruitiness complemented by well-balanced, spicy oak flavors and a barely perceptible, but appealing, touch of sweetness.

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2000 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Fred Tasker, Miami Herald, FL Highly Recommended

Rich, intense aromas and flavors of black raspberries; sweet and smooth; excellent balance; long, deeply fruity finish.

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2000 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Editor, Market Watch

Top of the category...

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2000 Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
Editor, Decanter 10 Best Values - Three Stars

Peach, green apple, and melon flavours with butterscotch and toasty oak.