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Price Range of 750ml bottle, ex-tax in USD
Average: $15
From: $14 To: $20
Search Rank 3692
Over all vintages, this was the
3692nd most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year.
Search rank last month: 4478th
Score: 86.
The Wine-Searcher score of
86/100
is calculated from the following wine critic
scores:
| Critic | Score |
| Wine Spectator | 87/100 |
| CellarTracker | 85/100 (23 notes from 21 users ) |
Awards
| Award Organization | Award Year | Result |
| San Francisco International Wine Competition | 2012 | Silver |
| The Dallas Wine Competition | 2012 | Silver |
Price History for 2010 Chalone Vineyard Monterey Pinot Noir
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Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is the red wine grape of Burgundy, now adopted (and feverishly studied) in wine regions all over the world. The variety's elusive charm has carried it to all manner of vineyards, from western Germany and northern Italy to Chile, South Africa, Australia, and perhaps most notably California and New Zealand. It is the patriarch of the ‘Pinot’ family of grape varieties – so called because their bunches are similar in shape to pine cone (pinot in French). Other members of this family are Pinot Gris, ... more
Region Hierarchy
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Monterey wine region
The Monterey AVA is a long, thin viticultural area in California's Central Coast wine region. The AVA traces the Salinas river valley from the Monterey/San Luis Obispo county line in the south-east to the river's mouth 90 miles (145km) to the north-west. The lush, well-watered valley floor is, in classic Californian style, flat and several miles wide. It runs between the Gabilan Mountains and the Sierra de Salinas, its gently snaking shape in stark contrast to the finger-like mountains which dominate the rest of Monterey County.
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Monterey County wine region
Monterey County, on California's Central Coast, is a relatively new addition to the United States' wine map. It was only in the 1960s that commercial-scale viticulture began to take off here, when the Salinas Valley became the place to plant vines on this stretch of the Californian coastline. Some of the largest vineyards in the USA can be found in Monterey, typically lining the broad Salinas valley floor, where vineyards require irrigation from the underground Salinas river. ... more
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