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Chalk Hill 2004 Chairman's Club Chardonnay (Chalk Hill)

Price $75

Everything you look for in a Burgundian Chard is here. It’s dramatically rich in tropical fruit and Meyer lemon flavors, with crisp natural acidity. Lots of new toasty oak, sur lies aging and malolactic fermentation add integrated dimensions of flavor and texture. A sensational wine, dense and complex, and should develop well for five years. Only 45 cases produced. — S.H. (4/1/2007)

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Chalk Hill 2005 Botrytised Sémillon (Chalk Hill)

Price $55

This is one of the sweetest white California dessert wines out there. It’s addictively decadent, like an upscale Sauternes. Barrel fermentation in new French oak gives an opulent, palate-flattering honeyed vanilla richness to the apricot, peach, pineapple and crème brûlée flavors that are so rich and refined. Crisp acidity provide clean, vibrant balance. Just… — S.H. (12/31/2007)

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Chalk Hill 2006 Estate Vineyard Selection Botrytised Sémillon (Chalk Hill)

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Price $80

A spectacular dessert wine. The residual sugar is 18%, making it superrich in honeyed sweetness, complexed with apricot, pineapple, pear, vanilla cream and new oak flavors of butterscotch and crème brûlée. But it’s also crisp in acidity, giving it a clean scour. One of the best sweeties of the vintage. — S.H. (11/1/2009)

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Chalk Hill 2008 Musque Sauvignon Blanc (Chalk Hill)

Price $40

Expensive, but brilliant. At the forefront of California Sauvignon Blanc. Shows bright and clean acidity framing intense tangerine, lime and honey flavors, as well as complications from oak. Yet it finishes bone dry and elegant. Delicious and compelling, this wine lifts Sauvignon Blanc into entirely new territory. — S.H. (9/1/2010)

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Chalk Hill 2007 Estate Red (Chalk Hill)

Price $90

Made in the modern style, this Cabernet-based Bordeaux-style blend was aged in mostly new French oak for 20 months, so it shows plenty of toasty, oaky notes. It’s softly delicious, with tiers of raspberry, cherry, red currant, milk chocolate, violet and dried herb flavors, wrapped into the smoothest possible tannins. An extraordinarily beautiful wine for drinking… — S.H. (11/1/2010)

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Chalk Hill 2009 Botrytised Sémillon (Chalk Hill)

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Price $44

This is absolutely delicious, offering heady waves of orange marmalade, butterscotch candy, crème brûlée and honey that are wildly opulent. This is a go-to bottling for very sweet, unctuous California dessert wines. — S.H. (9/1/2012)

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Chalk Hill 2008 Botrytised Sémillon (Chalk Hill)

Price $45

Very, very sweet and decadent, like pure honey. Nectar of the gods-type wine, oozing spicy apricot, orange, roasted almond and vanilla honey flavors. To describe the mouthfeel as creamy hardly does it justice, it’s so viscous and glyceriney. A magnificent dessert wine to savor. — S.H. (12/31/2011)

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Chalk Hill 1999 Estate Vineyard Selection Chardonnay (Chalk Hill)

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Price $67

A smooth-drinking Chardonnay that pushes the envelope for size and opulence. Massive tropical fruit is matched with toasty oak. Waves of flavor sensations unfold on the palate, rich and complex. This is a huge, dramatic Chardonnay, but buyers will have to decide if the high price is worth it. — S.H. (12/15/2002)

Most Reviewed Designations

Adele's Botrytised Chairman's Club Clara’s Vineyard Estate Estate Bottled Estate Red Estate Vineyard Selection Furth Musque North Slope

Most Reviewed Varietals

Bordeaux-style Red Blend Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon-Syrah Chardonnay Merlot Pinot Gris Red Blend Sauvignon Blanc Sauvignon Gris Sémillon Syrah Viognier

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