Winemaker Notes
Bright with yellow color and intensive gleam. Presents elegant tropical aromas, perfectly complemented by fine toasted notes. Expresses a full range of aromas and flavors of complex fruits like apples, tropical fruit, citrus, and pears. Intense and voluptuous, with a superb finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Sliced-apple, lemon and mineral aromas follow through to a medium body, tangy fruit and a toasted-oak, vanilla and cooked-apple aftertaste. Drink now.
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Wine Spectator
This features suave creaminess to the ripe peach, pear and apple flavors. Floral notes linger on the minerally finish.
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.
With a winning combination of cool weather, high elevation and well-draining alluvial soils, it is no surprise that Mendoza’s Uco Valley is one of the most exciting up-and-coming wine regions in Argentina. Healthy, easy-to-manage vines produce low yields of high-quality fruit, which in turn create flavorful, full-bodied wines with generous acidity.
This is the source of some of the best Malbec in Mendoza, which can range from value-priced to ultra-premium. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Chardonnay also perform well here.