Description
Jeb Dunnuck
Leading off with the 2016 Chardonnay, this medium gold-colored effort offers ample ripe apple and honeyed citrus aromas in a rounded, nicely textured, charming package. It has good acidity, building richness, and should keep for 2-3 years. (1/2019)
Wine Enthusiast
Grainy, this wine is youthfully grippy and textured, with moderate acidity and layers of green apple, stone fruit and melon. Light on its feet, it’s fresh and fleshy. (VB) (8/2018)
Wine Spectator
Well-spiced, with concentrated ripe apple and pear flavors that feature accents of butterscotch. Offers a juicy and rich-tasting finish. Drink now through 2020. (KM) (7/2018)
K&L Notes
Winemaker’s Notes: “Lush nose of white nectarine, peaches, jasmine and meyer lemon. Tangy kumquat, Rampur lime, stone fruit, and chamomile on the palate with vibrant acid and a long layered finish. Nice mineral notes. When sourcing Chardonnay fruit, we seek those Carneros vineyards that offer diversity in both aspects and clonal selection. The result is a complex and vibrant Chardonnay most reflective of the Carneros region. Appellation: Carneros, Napa. Terroir: Carneros is known for its loam and clay soils; a mixture of flat land and rolling hillside and has the reliable marine fog that rolls in at evening t and burns off in the mid-morning. After night harvesting, the Chardonnay fruit arrives at Saintsbury within the hour of its pick. The clusters are sorted and transferred directly to a gentle, whole cluster press. The settled juice then goes to barrel for fermentation. During its 8 months in French oak barrels, we employ bâtonnage to ensure a complex and well-balanced wine. The wine was bottled in June and finished with a Stelvin screwcap closure.”
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