Winemaker Notes
Enjoy with leg of lamb, grilled or barbecued meat such as lamb chops and sausages, as well as seafood and grilled fish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A ripe style, but with the zip for focus and balance. A racy quinine note drives the core of yellow apple, pear and green fig fruit. A light hazelnut edge adds range on the finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Lesca Chardonnay has a very attractive bouquet with citrus fruit, almond and honeysuckle aromas, a light fumé scent that surfaces with time in the glass. The palate is well balanced with orange zest and apricot notes, moderate weight in the mouth, the wood perhaps needing another 6-12 months to fully assimilate on the 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.
Within the Breede River Valley in South Africa, Robertson is a warm and dry winegrowing region notable for its white wines. The region is home to an increasing number of estates and cooperatives.