Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Powdered stone and mint on the nose. Gives a drier and more classical impression today than the For e t but still shows a distinct roundness. In fact, with its touch of spice,...

Burghound: This is also quite floral with ripe citrus and stone hints that marry into full-bodied and very rich flavors that possess a textured mouth feel and excellent intensity on the ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Ripe stone fruits and minerals on the nose and palate. Densely packed and sweet, with strong but well-integrated acidity giving the mid-palate more tension than the 2009 shows...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2008 Chardonnay provides a moderate to intense, pleasantly wild and funky nose with notes of meal, pineapple, warm grapefruit, struck match, baking bread and nuts. The med...

Wine Spectator: Intense and tightly wound, offering concentrated lemon, apple, spice and chalk aromas and flavors. This keeps building on the palate, changing as it finishes with a flourish o...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Yellow-gold. Exotically perfumed bouquet displays scents of sweet butter, melon, smoky lees and iodine. Open-knit melon and pit fruit flavors are given spine by gentle acidity...

About this Wine: Shafer's single-vineyard Carneros-grown Chardonnay is produced from small-clustered clones of grapes selected for their low yields and distinctive flavors. Fermentation takes ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Very rich aromas of pineapple, nut oil and smoky oak; the most exotic of these 2008s and the highest in alcohol at 13.5%. Rich, powerful and generous, combining strong acidity...

Wine Spectator: Delivers a tight, taut laser beam of flavors, riding lively acidity that carries the green apple, pineapple, citrus and honeydew melon notes. Gains depth and velocity, and is ...

Winemaker: Crystal clear with intense green highlights. Very fresh with light fruity notes. An elegant and pleasant wine with the typical minerality of its appellation. Ageing potential ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: From steep Kimmeridgian slopes between Courgis and Prehy, the Brocard 2008 Chablis Domaine de la Boissonneuse is more aromatically restrained than its Domaine Sainte Claire co...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($99; bottled in March; vinified in 800-liter concrete eggs, then aged half in the eggs and half in older f u ts More exotic, spicy nose than the Clos, hinting at soft citrus ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium yellow. Subdued aromas of ripe peach and stone, with hints of iodine and smoke. Fairly lush in the mouth but with a firm rocky underpinning to the peach and spice ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Yellow-gold. Orange peel, guava and gingery spices on the nose, with honey and smoky lees qualities adding complexity. Nicely concentrated and energetic as well, with bracing ...

Burghound: green fruit, straw and earth-infused nose merges into rich, round and nicely fleshy middle weight flavors that are unusually supple and forward, all wrapped in a tangy, dry, c...

About this Wine: In 1990, Maté Brajkovich reworked the land at Kumeu River and planted a new vineyard of Chardonnay on the site of the family's original vineyard, purchased in 1944. The fi...

About this Wine: "This wine is produced from a vineyard owned by Tim and Angela Coddington, whose grapes have been used in the Kumeu River Estate Chardonnay since 1998. It is a vineyard th...

Wine Spectator: Light toasty oak and baking spice accents overlay white peach, apple, elderflower and stone flavors in this intense yet elegant white. It's the underlying acidity that keeps i...