The 2017 Chardonnay Grace Benoist Ranch leaps from the glass with scents of peach cobbler, pineapple upside-down cake and green guava with hints of butterscotch and preserved ginger. Medium-bodied, the palate has a lovely...

Enticing candied citrus fruit and spice with an exquisite mineral undertone; super clean and tense with a sumptuous texture and a long, harmonious finish.

Brilliant straw-gold. A highly complex, mineral-driven bouquet evokes fresh citrus and orchard fruits, iodine, buttered toast and white flowers. Shows superb depth and fine delineation, offering vibrant orange, Anjou...

The 2017 Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard, which comes from a great vineyard in Carneros, ratchets up the intensity and richness yet still delivers a beautiful vibrancy and freshness. Lots of caramelized lemon, tart pineapple...

The 2017 Riesling Zeltinger Himmelreich Auslese ** (Golden Capsule) offers an enormously aromatic nose with tropical fruit aromas, such as ripe mangoes, passion fruit and papayas, intermixed with lush, yellow-fleshed...

Enticing candied citrus fruit and spice with an exquisite mineral undertone; super clean and tense with a sumptuous texture and a long, harmonious finish.

93+ The 2017 Viré-Clessé Quintaine is showing beautifully, unfurling in the glass with a refined bouquet of white peach, green orchard fruit, honeycomb and spring flowers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny...

95+ The 2017 Chardonnay Larry Hyde opens slowly, offering subtle glimpses of lime peel, fresh grapefruit and white peaches to begin before giving way to a compelling core of Bosc pears, fennel seed, marzipan and shaved...

The aromas exude smoky, spicy oak, with peach, honey and butter-drenched fruit flavors infiltrating the creamy palate. This is hedonistic in approach, leaving a long, palate-staining aftertaste that echoes the fruit and...

Very focused, with yellow apple, persimmon, acacia, honeysuckle and lemon curd notes layered seamlessly as they move through, ending with salted butter and quinine echoes that bring you back for more. Drink now through...

Note the change of spelling from Margaux (2016 vintage) to Margot. I won’t bore you with the details of why. Pale with a lemon tint, and a very attractive nose. Tension in the fruit, just enough oak behind. The wine opens...

The 2017 Riesling Saarburger Rausch Auslese ** (Golden Capsule) is intense and concentrated on the fresh and piquant nose that indicates fine botrytis with lemon confit and pumpernickel notes. Lush and smooth as well as...

Literally grown in Jean-Claude Boisset's garden, with a painterly view of the Clos de Vougeot, this is always fun to serve in a blind tasting. It's toasty, sappy and reductive, with flinty, struck-match aromas and hints...

The 2017 Chablis Blanchot Grand Cru is vivid, open-knit and super-appealing. Sweet floral and citrus notes lend energy, but it is the wine's nuance and persistence that make the strongest first impression. Even so, the...

Notes of ripe apricot hit the nose. An herbal edge of moss and fern adds lovely aroma. The palate is bright and tight with freshness but soon breaks open to reveal all of that lovely fruit and the intense, pervasive...

The 2017 Chablis Montmains 1er Cru is forward, open-knit and very easy to enjoy. Passionfruit, mango, white flowers and mint all grace this silky, sumptuous 1er Cru from Samuel Billaud. Soft contours, forward fruit and...

(WA 91-93 points) The Ferran 2017 Blanc is a little closed on the nose, with delicate yuzu, lemon zest and green mango notes plus grapefruit and crushed rocks hints. The medium-bodied palate has a lovely saline character...

92+ Monsieur Billaud’s parcel in Vaillons also hails from his 2014 purchase of some of his family’s former plots, and these vines are also seventy years of age. I often think of Vaillons as one of the terroirs that...

Clean and concentrated, this is a bright and spicy Chablis with chalky chamomile scents and buttery flavors with a prickle of lime. It’s young and needs a year or two of bottle age for those flavors to deepen.

From the cooler Eola-Amily Hills, also on volcanic soils, this opens with alluring aromas of petrichor and more time in the glass reveals smoky Mirabelle plums and radiant freshness. This vivid brightness is also apparent...

A French oak-aged barrel from grapes partially planted to the Musque clone, this opens in a oral splendor of pea shoots and apple blossom. Fresh and lemony, it offers texture and complexity, the fruity notions of peach...

From three parcels situated in the warm terroirs near the village campsite, the 2017 Meursault Village unfurls in the glass with aromas of peaches, beeswax, pastry cream and warm spices. On the palate, it's medium to...

This delicious, full wine offers a fine balance between fresh apple fruits and smoother butter and cream textures. The juicy character brings out ripeness as well as the crisp texture. Drink the wine from 2020. ROGER VOSS

The 2017 Riesling Ürziger Würzgarten Spätlese (Golden Capsule) is complex and mineral on the densely woven yet fresh and crunchy-herbal nose. It's a dense, concentrated, piquant and structured Spätlese with lush and ripe...

This is an exotic dry white with dried mango and pineapple and some slate throughout. Full-bodied with dense, rich fruit and saltiness, which, together with extremely energetic acidity, really drive the finish. Drink now...