Grilled pineapple and lemon, toasted pine nuts, wet limestone, olive and hazelnut oil, yellow pear skin, dried apricot, lamp oil, pumice, and traces of plantain. A wine that successfully straddles…
Beautiful tension and verve on the initial pull, with notes of white nectarine, white peach, and white stone fruit, quince, lemon juice, pumice, and hints of honeysuckle. Delivers with laser focus…
Unripe pear, grilled lemon, ash, limestone, and hints of varnish. A formidable weight distribution along the palate, with a sturdy attack, but instantly drying and, at times, a little hollow.…
Lemon, butterscotch, quince paste, unripe tangerine, pumice, and lamp oil. Pushing out a significant amount of petrol and some flint on its initial voyage, creating a heightened drying effect on the…
For $16, this is a great QPR and over-delivers in almost every way. Obviously not displaying the layered complexity of top shelf Rieslings, but beautifully balanced, with nice crowd-pleasing flavors…
White stone and white melon. No display of yellow citrus, tropical, or lemon/lime zest notes. A small detectable grass note. Linear and straightforward on the attack, with a Pinot Grigio lightness…
This bottle seemed to have an angular delivery and showed a more progressed profile in terms of a bronzed/oxidized finish that was omnipresent. It was drinkable, but the lamp oil aftertaste and added…
Same as last month. Great body and mid-palate weight/depth, notable complexity, and gorgeous lime and grass flavors to compliment the yellow citrus core. Even better with air.
Eeeeeesh.... This was unfortunately a little tough for me to get on board with in its current state; not the most inviting or expressive... or complex example of the varietal or the site. I'm not…
Fresh squeezed lemon juice, yellow pear skin, vanilla, and some glycol-alcohol on the finish. More powerful and a bit more abrasive than the Frei Chardonnay at this stage. Good flavors, but rattles…
About an hour of direct air allowed this wine to shake off some of the heavier coconut pie crust and vanilla flavors from its coat, allowing the lemon curd and pear notes to take center stage. Some…
So this silly chameleon has gone 180 with its flavor profile since I last had it in 2017. What was once a balled-up mineral-first-fruit-second Chardonnay has now become a vanilla tropical Carmen…
Continuing on its path to increasingly elevated performance, this bottling of the Hartford Far Coast has inched-up a couple of notches since I had it last summer. The focus and flavor are really…
Previous notes apply, though this behaved a bit more like a Sauvignon Blanc this time around (especially when it was on the colder side). Linear but hyper-clean pure yellow citrus, flint, and chalk…
Spritely yellow citrus, fresh lemon juice, grass, white stone fruit, bitter unripe pear, and some pumice. A slightly pithy and bitter delivery, with a hint of spritz that further cuts the core fruit…
Yellow citrus, vanilla, honey, and melon. Round and a bit sweet, with a vanilla glycerin-laced finish that stomps on the citrus, taking away some of the energy behind the acid. Drink now.
Grapefruit, lemon grass, melon, and yellow citrus. A guava-meets-grapefruit flavor repeats throughout the delivery as well, with faint hits of pear and peach on the tail end. Finishes smooth and…
An outrageously gorgeous example of the varietal. Freshly squeezed lemon juice, Meyer lemon olive oil, Bellini, yellow pear, citrus blossom, cardamom seed, and subtle rock dust. A flick of pineapple…
Performing very well since I sampled it from barrel last year, the Arkenstone Sauvignon Blanc pops onto the palate with vibrant lemon verbena, dry grass and hay, lemon and lime zest, citrus blossom,…
Fresh lemon juice and zest, lemon verbena, dry grass, lime zest, subtle vanilla-coconut pina colada, and trailing tropical fruit notes make up the profile of this beautifully crafted Sauvignon Blanc.…
Yellow pear skin, lemon rind, apricot, marzipan, fondant, acacia, and a touch of dry sherry. The initial attack starts off a tad dry, but then rushes to the mid-palate picking up elegant yellow core…
Crème brûlée, lemon curd, vanilla bean, and yellow pear notes glide across the palate in a wonderfully flowing delivery. The Ma Douce houses it's flavors in a soft and subtle grip, with a more plush…
