This deeply-flavored chard comes from one of the coolest growing areas in California, and in this warm vintage, the grapes are perfectly ripe. They brim with white peach, pineapple, vanilla custard, tangerine and kiwi flavors, heightened and brightened with crisp acidity.—S.H. Issue #166 …reveals copious quantities of tropical fruits and honeysuckle in a full-bodied, fruit driven, satisfying, rich, well-made style. Drink over the next several years. #29 Top 100 Wines of 2007-December 2007 Ripe and intense, with rich, perfumed apple, pear and spice flavors that pick up a note of butterscotch form oak. Turns elegant and stylish on the finish, showing a hint of lemon and citrus. A great value. Drink now through 2010.—J.L.Wine Enthusiast
Robert Parker Jr's The Wine Advocate
Wine Spectator
Release Date: Fall 2006
This is our twentieth vintage from these old vines which continue to produce the most definitive single vineyard Chardonnay in the whole of Edna Valley.
Bountiful aromas of citrus fruits and spices confront the nose. Rich and oily textured the flavors of lemon, almond and brown spices are broad and deep. The 2004 vintage was small, yielding two tons per acre and a warm one to boot. The heat pushed the harvest forward yet the wine still captures its signature cool climate zest. An extra dimension of richness and complexity is an added bonus of this vintage that is quite enjoyable.
Barrel fermented in our mountain cave, this wine was aged on the yeast sur-lie for ten months. Drink over the next two years.
