Winemaker Notes
Like a talented actor, the Chardonnay Réserve presents a different face when matched with different dishes. It harmonizes just as beautifully with grilled or roasted fish and seafood as a classic oven-baked poulet roti with lemon and thyme.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
For such a young wine, this is showing incredible complexity and character, with notes of flint upfront, followed by hominy, sea salt, lemon peel and apple, all tied by vibrant acidity. Texturally seductive, velvety and smooth, with a long, charming 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.
