Winemaker Notes
Robertson's soils' limestone and clay components help the vines to develop strong citrus flavors with a pronounced nuttiness on the palate. Ageing in oak enhances the nutty and citrus fruit flavors of this wine, unleashing a plush elegance. This wine matures beautifully, the years add dimension and complexity.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
The 2021 Lesca Chardonnay offers a delicate, powdery, rocky essence with an elegant and finessed nose of fresh-cut Meyer lemon and notions of green and yellow apple skin. Medium-bodied, it beams with a bright and energetic mouthfeel of succulent acidity. As the Chardonnay sits on the palate, it continues to uncoil, offering additional layers and a delicate mineral tension that ends with a crisp, food-friendly, citrus-laced finish
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Wine Spectator
A creamy, well-detailed white, with a fresh spine of acidity finely meshed to a range of poached pear and white peach fruit, preserved lemon, white blossom and salted green almond notes. The lingering finish is clean-cut and lightly toasty, with hints of vanilla and brioche.
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.