Winemaker Notes
Clean and bright yellow color, with aromatic notes of white flowers, peach, and quince. The palate has notes of honey and apple with a long, clean finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Baked apples, pears, pie crust and hazelnuts on the nose. It’s full-bodied with fresh acidity and a compact, ripe and fleshy palate. Textured finish.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 La Playa Reserva Chardonnay is generous and rewarding while staying quick on its feet. TASTING NOTES: This wine excels with aromas and flavors of dried earth, savory spices, and ripe fruit. Enjoy it with grilled shellfish. (Tasted: March 7, 2022, 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.
Part of the Coquimbo region and a key location for pisco production, the Limari Valley is one of the northern most wine producing regions of Chile. The other two, also part of Coquimbo, are the Elqui and less-developed Choapa Valleys. While more vineyard area is dedicated to pisco production (via the grapes of Muscat of Alexandria, Pedro Jimenez, Moscatel de Asturia and Torontel), the acreage under vine for still wine production has increased. The intense sunlight in the Limari Valley, coupled with little rainfall as well as the cooling effect of the Humboldt Current from the Pacifc Ocean, all make the area ideal for cool climate grapes like Chardonnay and Pinot noir.