Burghound: A reticent but elegant green fruit nose is primary but very fresh and solidly complex and leads to racy, intense and pure middle weight flavors that are textured, minerally an...

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...

John Sweeney: Pale straw color. Intriguing nose displays sea shell and baked lemon tart aromas, along with subtle tropical fruit notes. Vibrant and lively, with well-integrated acidity and ...

Burghound: This is not quite as elegant as the wood is a bit more obvious but offers more aromatic breadth with floral and spice notes added to the tidal pool and white orchard fruit aro...

Burghound: A pungent nose speaks of green fruit, resin and minerality that is trimmed in discreet wood notes that merge into round and attractively concentrated flavors that possess a bi...

Burghound: A highly perfumed nose of spice, white flower, citrus and sea breeze nuances leads to seductive satin-textured flavors that are quite rich yet pure, delineated and possess ple...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good pale color. Subtle aromas of grapefruit, lemon, acacia flower and musky quinine. Firmly built, even a bit youthfully austere, but there's good breadth and minerality here...

Eddie Wolowski: Pale gold. Nose balances tropical fruit, sea shells, spice, and minerality with citrus fruit. Full-bodied, focused, and balanced, with a hint of creaminess on the solid mid-pa...

Burghound: This is also ripe to the point of displaying glimpses of exotic fruit yet there is still good freshness to the largely yellow fruit aromas tinged with mineral reduction notes....

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 ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Chardonnay is wonderfully nuanced and expressive. At once delicate, yet fully-flavored, the wine favors an expression of terroir over varietal flavors. This is a beau...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Pale yellow. Complex, intensely perfumed bouquet displays mineral-accented citrus and pear, with a strong iodine note and mounting spiciness. Juicy and light on its feet, of...

Burghound: Here an exceptionally fresh nose of citrus peel and white flowers merges seamlessly into rich and nicely detailed flavors that possess lovely intensity and an attractively dry...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Also 100% barrel-fermented, the 2007 Chardonnay Grangerville Vineyard reveals a light medium gold color along with aromas of nectarines, white peaches, crushed rocks, creme br...

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 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...