Winemaker Notes
The versatile style of Eberles Estate Chardonnay makes it a perfect accompaniment to a wide range of cuisines. Enjoy it with lighter dishes like Chicken Piccata or grilled salmon. Heartier fare includes crab cakes or pasta with a béchamel sauce.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Asian and Anjou pear aromas meet with Key lime, citrus and gardenia on the vibrant nose of this bottling. The palate is both tart and lush, with flavors of green guava and white flowers driving it along.
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Wine & Spirits
Bright and leesy, this has a pleasant briskness to what ought to be a warm-climate wine, simple and salty, with a lively green-apple texture that’s framed by a dusty, windswept phenolic grip.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Eberle Chardonnay comes right at you with plenty of well-balanced intensity. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers dried peach skin, a hint of chalk, and ripe apple in its aromas and flavors. Pair it with grilled, jumbo prawns over couscous. (Tasted: May 1, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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.
Paso Robles has made a name for itself as a source of supple, powerful, fruit-driven Central Coast wines. But with eleven smaller sub-AVAs, there is actually quite a bit of diversity to be found in this inland portion of California’s Central Coast.
Just east over the Santa Lucia Mountains from the chilly Pacific Ocean, lie the coolest in the region: Adelaida, Templeton Gap and (Paso Robles) Willow Creek Districts, as well as York Mountain AVA and Santa Margarita Ranch. These all experience more ocean fog, wind and precipitation compared to the rest of the Paso sub-appellations. The San Miguel, (Paso Robles) Estrella, (Paso Robles) Geneso, (Paso Robles) Highlands, El Pomar and Creston Districts, along with San Juan Creek, are the hotter, more western appellations of the greater Paso Robles AVA.
This is mostly red wine country, with Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel standing out as the star performers. Other popular varieties include Merlot, Petite Sirah, Petit Verdot, Syrah, Grenache and Rhône blends, both red and white. There is a fairly uniform tendency here towards wines that are unapologetically bold and opulently fruit-driven, albeit with a surprising amount of acidity thanks to the region’s chilly nighttime temperatures.