Wine Spectator: A lean style, with apple, grapefruit and spice flavors woven into the tightly knit texture. Ends with a tactile sensation and a mouthwatering impression. Best from 2014 throug...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Bright yellow. Vibrant aromas of lemon zest and minerals with a touch of dusty brown spices. A delicately floral, spicy 2010 with a tart lemon flavor and a lovely impression...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2011 Chardonnay Mt. Harlan bursts from the glass with expressive apricots, peaches, crushed rocks, French oak and spices. Rich yet weightless, the 2011 is striking from th...

About this Wine: From the same hillside vineyards as `Ma Princesse' and `Ma Douce,' this unique cuvée is judiciously blended from a strictly limited number of selected barrels displaying t...

Wine Enthusiast: This very fine Chardonnay has a stony, minerally component, like a lick of cold steel. That vibrancy leads to rich pineapple and green apple purée flavors, enriched with cinna...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (these vines are now about 15 years old): Bright green-tinged yellow. Sexy, precise aromas of orange marmalade and flowers. Broad and minerally on the palate, with orange a...

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...

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...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright straw-yellow. Ripe nectarine lifted by nutmeg and lavender on the nose. Large-scaled, smooth and sweet; not a particularly refined style of Corton-Charlemagne bu...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright gold. Full-blown aromas of melon, yellow peach and guava, plus a gentle smoky quality. Broad pit and tropical fruit flavors coat the palate and are lifted by gentle aci...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium bright yellow. Reserved apple and pear aromas brightened by a chalky component this comes across as less exotic than the Bienvenue. Suave on entry, then impressively in...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Green-tinged color. Spicy aromas of grapefruit, stone, spices and pepper, plus an exotic suggestion of mango. Dense, sappy and very young, with strong acidity enlivening the c...

Wine Enthusiast: A toasty and buttery wine that is initially smooth and silky. It's only on the mid-palate that the tauter, more steely character of Chablis comes through. With fresh acidity, ...

About this Wine: Lee Gnesa (pronounced knee-sa) and his family planted this intimate four-acre vineyard in 1996 on Highway 246 on a ge...

About this Wine: 3.63 ha of the appellation's 17 ha (climat located on the right bank of the Serein). The exact continuation of the Côte des Grands Crus. Separated by a path from Grand Cru Les...

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...

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...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Chardonnay Belle Terre Vineyard was put through full malolactic fermentation, making it the most showy, flamboyant wine of this quartet. It also possesses impressive ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Clover, honey, lemon, and chalk dust rise from the glass of Deux Montille 2006 Batard-Montrachet. Remarkably bright, lean, refined and full of primary fruit juiciness on the p...