Winemaker Notes
The Untitled #14 Chardonnay achieves a perfect balance of richness, acidity and elegance through the art of blending. The palate is full of ripe tropical notes and orange oil, laced with silky sweet spices. The finish is long, seductive and persistent on the palate. As with Peirson Meyer's other Chardonnays the Untitled evolves in the glass and in the cellar beautifully.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Chardonnay Untitled No. 14 has pure scents of poached pears, apricot, Meyer lemon, spring honey and toast. The medium-bodied palate offers complex flavors that range from citrus to savory. It has a silky texture, a bright spine of acidity and a long, floral finish. Rating:93+
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 a diverse array of smaller AVAs with varied microclimates and soil types, Sonoma County has something for every wine lover. Physically twice as large as Napa Valley, the region only produces about half the amount of wine but boasts both tremendous quality and variety. With its laid-back atmosphere and down-to-earth attitude, the wineries of Sonoma are appreciated by wine tourists for their friendliness and approachability. The entire county intends to become a 100% sustainable winegrowing region by 2019.
Sonoma County wines are produced with carefully selected grape varieties to reflect the best attributes of their sites—Dry Creek Valley’s consistent sunshine is ideal for Zinfandel, while the warm Alexander Valley is responsible for rich, voluptuous red wines like Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are important throughout the county, most notably in the cooler AVAs of Russian River, Sonoma Coast and Carneros. Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot and Syrah have also found a firm footing here.