So deliciously ripe and sweet, you can drink it now, especially with a great steak. Flatters with raspberry, cherry and blackberry flavors, accented with the vanilla and caramel of new oak, and wrapped into soft, ripe tannins. Made in the modern style, it’s a decadent wine whose pure, refined tannins testify to their Napa origin. Yet it will develop over the next…
— S.H.
(11/1/2011)
The fruit on this drily complex Chardonnay is starting to fall out, giving an herb, cashew nut edge to the pineapples, tangerines and apricots. The wine retains its sweet coating of buttered toast and vanilla honey. Will continue to dry and become earthier over the next several years.
— S.H.
(11/1/2011)