The Wine Enthusiast’s top Ponzi Chardonnay ever and an Editors’ Choice at $45:
There has been a change (apparently) in vineyard sources from the previous vintage, which carried the new Laurelwood District AVA. This reserve bears the broader Willamette Valley AVA and includes grapes from a wider mix of sites. It's loaded with tasty, toasty flavors of nutmeg, toasted hazelnuts, butter cookie and fresh sliced tree fruits. Framed with lime skin and pea vine phenolics, it's a generous, balanced and thoroughly delicious bottle.
Also Suckling’s Best Ever at 96 points:
Love the aromas of fossilized shells and sliced cooked apples. Quince and aniseed, too. Perfumed. Full-bodied, yet creamy and compact with a beautiful, long finish of honey, straw and lime. Sustainable. Drink or hold.
This actually rates above all of the more expensive Drouhin and Roserock Chardonnays.
