Winemaker Notes
The Antica Napa Valley 2020 Mountain Select Chardonnay is refined with rich minerality and savoriness of fresh cut apple and pear. Well-structured white stone fruit and spice flavors are supported by rich acidity. The wine shows creaminess on the midpalate with lingering plushness on the slightly toasty finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A deliciously creamy and elegant chardonnay with aromas of white peaches, golden apples, lemon curd, vanilla beans, crushed stones and sandalwood. Full-bodied, yet refined, with fresh acidity. Round, silky finish. Drink or hold.
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Wine Spectator
Opens up rich and expressive, with toasted coconut and buttery brioche notes and a thread of savory sesame seed, lemon curd and ripe Bosc pear. Packs a mouthwatering finish of lime and Himalayan salt. Drink now through 2030.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Chardonnay Mountain Select rolls out of glass with notes of fresh apricots, pear tart and marzipan, plus hints of cedar, spice cake and honeysuckle. Medium-bodied, the palate reveals lovely freshness and vibrancy with lots of spicy accents and a savory finish.
ANTICA is a symbol for Antinori California and expresses in Italian our family's passion for winemaking passed along 26 generations.
Napa Valley has a special place in my heart beginning with my first visit in 1966, having the free spirit coming from a new frontier, a wonderful history, and the potential to produce world-class wines.
Our wine estate is located on a high plain in the eastern mountains of the celebrated Napa Valley. Its hilly terrain, rocky soils, high elevations and beautiful landscape create above all an estate ideal for winegrowing.
Marchese Piero Antinori - Proprietor
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Just northeast of Napa city, Atlas Peak boasts some of Napa Valley’s highest elevation vineyards. Here the intense sunlight coupled with cool, nighttime temperatures produce grapes that are perfectly ripe, balanced and concentrated. The appellation is rich in volcanic soils and excels in the production of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.