Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Reserve Chardonnay 1999

The perfume of orange blossoms in spring rain is a fleeting first impression-one is left with the more lasting one of dried apricot and baked pear scented by freshly grated nutmeg. A lush creamy entry of summer-ripe white peach laced with a touch offlintiness lifts on diaphanous wings-abreathtaking mix of poetry of fruit and brightness. This wine is not necessarily a ""food wine"" as they say, because its beauties are enough unto themselves, but if you are wondering, it will delightfully accompany whole poached King salmon in a beurre blanc sauce or rabbit cooked hunter style and served over creamy polenta.