Matthew Cohen

9.2

Palate: green apple. Lovely sweet fruit. Mineral. Great acidic balance. Blind I’d say 1er cru chablis.

Fass selections — a month ago

JKT

9.1

Excellent Chardonnay! Mature and great balance with chewy texture and long finish. — 4 months ago

Luiz schwarcz

9.5

2016 delicious — 5 months ago

Anthony Auger

9.2

73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, 2% Malbec. Cranberry aroma with hints of pipe tobacco. First impression is cranberry juice follow by a floral vanilla retronasal sensation. The body is both powdery and tannic so it reminds me of a dark chocolate powder. Slow long legs give it a balanced heat on the finish. Was a great wine for a thanksgiving dinner. — 5 months ago

Mary Ellen Bonisteel

8.9

Nice black fruit dry — a month ago

Jason

9.5

Port Colborne LCBO - need to do taste test with Joel Gott. Most excellent, Smooth, no after bite. — 2 months ago

Adriana Fabbro

9.7

My nomination for Wine of the Year and it’s… a Napa Chardonnay?!? This wine challenged and expanded my beliefs about what this region, site and variety could be.

Also, we seem to be catching this wine at exactly the right point.

This Spring Mountain estate was focused almost entirely on white wines until recently and has some of the region’s oldest Napa plantings of Riesling and Chardonnay. (Of course now that they’ve been acquired by some PE group for an absurd sum, Cab is being planted everywhere but that’s a story for another day)

Their Chardonnay is idiosyncratic — no malo and low abv (the 2012 vintage is a mere 13%), but you wouldn’t know from its richness.

Mindblowingly complex and - most importantly - indulgently delicious (in other words, I blew my wine budget for two months on two bottles good).

Initial aromas of plastic / petrol (like riesling) that take on more of a toasted vanilla / caramel flan with air. On the nose and palate: pear and lemon, salt and stone. The flavors are concentrated and intense on the attack and yet the wine has such a light touch on the palate and a graceful finish — toasted hay, salty and flirting with bitter marzipan — that just goes on and on and on.

It brings me back to that afternoon on Spring Mountain with the perfect fall light, changing leaves and the coyote we saw crossing our path as we made our way up the winding drive way.

Absolutely fucking brilliant. — 4 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2008 | elegance and balance — 2 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.4

Jesus o luis c jaime c jorge b pepe g — 2 months ago

Byron Hewett

9.1

Closer to Chablis than Beaune in taste. — 4 months ago