Wine Spectator: Fragrant and complex, with floral aromas of lemon, pebble, citrus and green apple that are delivered on a beam. Tightly wound and sharply focused, this is long and persistent ...

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 ...

Wine Enthusiast: Talley produces some of the best Chardonnays on the Central Coast. Although this isn't one of their single-vineyard bottlings, it's a splendid wine, dry, crisp and silky. It s...

Wine Enthusiast: This Chardonnay has all the bells and whistles the winemaker can bestow on it. It's soft and creamy, with flavors of sweetly-sour pineapple and lemon-drop candy, buttered toas...

Wine Spectator: Both fragrant and delicate, this offers complex floral, grapefruit, citrus, light oak and honeydew melon flavors perked up by lively acidity, which imparts a mouthwatering fin...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright, green-tinged gold. Powerful orchard fruit and orange marmalade aromas and flavors, with intense spice and anise qualities and a touch of agave. Deeply pitched but li...

Wine Enthusiast: Concentrated, intense orange, apricot and mineral flavors characterize this Chardonnay, as does a brisk cut of acidity. It handles the 100% new French oak, with notes of butte...

About this Wine: The Tablas Creek Vineyard Côtes de Tablas Blanc is a blend of four estate-grown white Rhône varietals: Viognier, Grenache Blanc, Roussanne and Marsanne. The wine, like mos...

Wine Spectator: Bold, rich and full-bodied, with a potent array of ripe fig, honeysuckle, anise, apricot and smoke flavors that are deep and extracted, ending with a long, mouthcoating finish...

Wine Spectator: Offers a plump, generous serving of ripe pear, white peach, honeysuckle and fig flavors that are pure and rich. A touch of honey and apricot joins a scent of smoky oak on the ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright gold. Fresh melon and peach pit scents are brightened by suggestions of smoky minerals and white flowers. Fleshy and deep in pit fruit and floral flavors but also liv...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A rich, enveloping wine, the 2010 Chardonnay Russian River Valley caresses the palate with layers of bright, focused fruit. This is an especially saline, intense vintage of th...

Wine Spectator: Sleek, crisp and vibrant, offering floral strawberry and sweet ginger aromas, with luscious raspberry and lemon fruit, plus accents of spice and mineral, followed by a bone-dr...

Wine Spectator: Combines richness with density and a tight core of pear, melon, green apple and light cedary oak flavors. This is raw and young, so give it time. The finish is complex, layere...

Wine Spectator: Sleek and impeccably focused and balanced, with floral apple, cinnamon and anise aromas and crisp yet supple lemon tart, cherry and spicy hazelnut flavors. Drink now through 2...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light, bright gold. An explosively perfumed bouquet evokes pit fruits, lavender, honeycomb and toasted grain, with a strong topnote of white pepper. Rich but lively, with im...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A luxury proprietary blend of Rhone Ranger varietals, the 2004 Esprit de Beaucastel blanc is composed of 65% Roussanne, 30% Grenache, and 5% Picpoul. Tipping the scales at nea...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright yellow-gold. Fresh orange and pear aromas are complicated by dusty minerals and white flowers. Silky in texture, with good energy and focus to the zesty citrus and or...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Viognier Larner Vineyard is gorgeous. Beautiful, floral aromatics lead to hints of honeysuckle and tangerine in this expressive, delineated Viognier. The style is a b...

Wine Enthusiast: New oak sticks out on this Chardonnay, with buttered toast and vanilla dominating the tropical fruit, orange and Meyer lemon flavors. It's finely constructed, with deft acidit...