Winemaker Notes
Pair with blue crab with a dill mayonnaise for dipping or double cream brie on water crackers.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This Chard is comparably dense and rich, while still maintaining balance. There are notes of toast, cream and flint alongside lemon-lime and peach fruit. There’s also a regional saline character. Oak and concentrated fruit make up the palate, but it’s structured for the long haul, with length and lovely fruit purity.
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James Suckling
Spiced apple, pear, peach, melon and honeysuckle on the nose. Medium-to full-bodied with fresh acidity and a juicy, round palate. Fresh finish.
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Vinous
Pale gold. Honeydew melon, pineapple and a hint of tangerine on the expansive nose. In a plush, open-knit style, showing good depth as well as energy to the juicy citrus and tropical fruit flavors. Tightens up with air and finishes long and precise, with a suave floral note emerging.
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.
Home to some of Australia’s most elegant and long-lived red and white wines, Margaret River is situated in the farthest reaches of Western Australia. Relatively warm and dry, the region is cooled by breezes from the Indian Ocean. Margaret River takes some inspiration from Bordeaux, producing top-quality Cabernet Sauvignons and Bordeaux Blends with firm structure, mouthwatering acidity, balanced alcohol and notes of herbs and spice. For white wines, refreshing blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as complex, age-worthy Chardonnays are regional specialties.