Wine Spectator: Very pure and precise, with racy, mouthwatering salted almond and peach pit notes along the edges, while green plum, Jonagold apple and white peach flavors course through the ...

About this Wine: Silhouette is Merryvale's limited production, top white wine and contains the very best Napa Valley and Carneros Chardonnay fruit, including grapes from the Stanly Ranch Estat...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chenevottes comes across as beautifully, layered, textured and supple. It possesses excellent freshness and overall harmony for the year. Whi...

Wine Spectator: Though rich and luscious, this white is also complex, displaying apple, peach, lemon, spice and savory mineral flavors. There's a little oak that needs to be resolved, but thi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumees is an attractive wine laced with expressive fruit. It fills out nicely in the glass as the layers of fruit blossom and the wine gain...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chassagne-Montrachet La Truffiere shows lovely tension and pure, lively minerality. This is one of the brighter more focused of the 2009s here, but there is plenty of...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Quite closed on the nose, hinting at menthol and wet stone. Then juicy and tight in the mouth, more taut and incisive than silky today, and showing superb precision for the v...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (from younger vines, planted in 1999 and 1992): Pale color. Reticent nose hints at lime. Then open-knit in the mouth, with good lemony cut to its sweet, creamy lemon and pi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Puligny-Montrachet Champs Gain is a relatively large-scaled, textured wine. This is total seduction. The Champs Gain impresses for its pliant, mid-palate juiciness, y...

Wine Enthusiast: Another very nice Chardonnay from Durell...with charred, buttered toast aromas and flavors dominating. But the underlying tropical fruit, orange cream and mineral flavors are ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chardonnay Unfiltered flows from the glass with melon, apricots, acacia and subtle French oak. It is a pretty, mid-weight, understated wine to drink now and over the ...

Wine Enthusiast: ...exceptionally ripe fruit and sweet, smoky oak appeals to you, you'll love this wine. It's an explosion of pineapple jam, tangerine and vanilla cream flavors, brightened wit...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chardonnay Bacigalupi Vineyard, from old Wente clones, is a gorgeous wine graced with exquisite textural depth and elegance. It boasts tons of richness in its sensual...

Wine & Spirits: With its flavors of caramelized lemon and warmed fresh almonds, this is a gentle, round and simple Meursault, its nut-scented fruit suited to Cantonese crab with ginger and ga...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light, green-tinged gold. Pungent, mineral-accented aromas of pear skin, nectarine, honeysuckle and iodine, with a hint of vanilla. Weighty but surprisingly bright and lithe...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid yellow. Candied citrus fruits and white flowers on the bright, mineral-accented nose and palate. Juicy, sharply focused orange and lemon curd flavors give way to deeper...

Wine Spectator: A rich, yet elegant, lemon-infused white, whose texture turns creamy as the citrus, peach and apple notes climax on the long finish. Drink now. -BS

Burghound: A ripe and admirably pure nose of various orchard fruits and tidal pool hints that can also be found on the big, rich and broad-shouldered flavors that display an overt muscul...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Very ripe aromas of apricot, clove and nut oil; more advanced than I would have predicted following my tasting from barrel a year ago. Plenty of density and acidity here but t...