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Chalk Hill 2008 Botrytised Sémillon (Chalk Hill)

Price $45

Score Chasers: USA 2011

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Chalk Hill 2003 Estate Bottled Cabernet Sauvignon (Chalk Hill)

Editors' Choice

Price $64

Steve Leveque, the winemaker at Chalk Hill, is doing everything right. Everything he touches is gold, including Cabernet. The ’03 is extraordinarily balanced and beautiful, a dry, ripe wine of power and full-bodied substance, but enormous subtlety. The cassis fruit meshes seamlessly with toasty new oak to produce compellingly complex flavors. Drink now through 2010. — S.H. (12/15/2006)

Chalk Hill 2007 Estate Syrah (Chalk Hill)

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Price $60

Expensive, yes, but very elegant. Wows the palate with a tsunami of black cherry tart, mushu plum sauce, red currant, licorice, pepper and sandalwood flavors, with a streak of yummy dark chocolate. For all the richness, the wine is absolutely dry. The tannins are big and thick, but drinkable now. Doesn’t seem likely to age well, but terrific over the next 3–4 years. — S.H. (11/1/2010)

2009 Venge Bone Ash Vineyard

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