Tried these three wines last night:
1. Noisy Water Demigoddess American Chard (13.0%; NoisyWaterWinery.com) Alto/NM 2023: Med.light gold color; somewhat earthy/Chard fairly toasty/oak light melony/Chard rather simple nose; somewhat soft rather earthy/Chard/melony fairly toasty/oak rather simple/Chard/melony rather light flavor; short light melony/Chard finish that tracks flavor; a rather dull singularly uninteresting expression of Chard. $17.50 (KK)
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2. Buckel Chard Hawk'sNestVnyd/Delores/CO (12.7%; Vnyd @ 8,800' elevation; www.BuckelFamilyWine.com) Gunnison/CO 2023: Light gold color; light melony/almondy/Chard light pencilly/oak lightly floral/melony pleasant Chard nose; some tart/tangy fairly strong almondy/Chard light floral/melonybit stony/mineral/chalky pleasant Chard flavor; med.long almondy/Chard/tart finish that mocks flavor ; a rather pleasant tangy/metallic Chard but has nothing particularly distinctive about to suggest a CO terroir. $34.00 (SFW&S)
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3. Buckel PinotNoir CO/4 Corners (13.3%) Gunnison/CO 2023: Lightish some browning color; rather earthy/PN slight Burgundian/cherry PN fairly toasty/oak bit rustic nose; fairlt tart bit tangy/metallic quite earthy/loamy slight Burgundian light cherry/PN strong toasty/Fr.oak rather rustic/coarse flavor w/ light tangy tannins; a bit of a rustic/earthy/Burgundian character but nothing particularly distinctive. $38.00 (SFW&S)
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More frickelput from TheBloodyPulpit:
1. Noisy Water is a wnry founded by Jasper Riddle some 10 yrs ago in Ruidoso (spanish for Noisy Waters). The wines have not been very interesting. He seems to be more interested in making wine w/ cutsey labels rather than quality/expressive wines. This Chard is pretty typical of his efforts. Several yrs ago, when Gruet Wnry succumbed to the Precept Wines buyout, they sold their vnyds in Engle, NM to Jasper, greatly reducing their access to NM grapes. This wine is labeled as "American", so probably was made from grapes grown mostly in Texas.
These two CO wines just appeared here on the shelves in NM. They tout the Chard as grown in the highest elevation vnyd in the World. Neither of these two Buckel wines were particularly distinctive or suggest anything of a CO terroir. I've had far better CO wines.
Tom