Coming from the Gap's Crown Vineyard in northern California's Sonoma Coast, the 2013 Chardonnay Gap's Crown Vineyard is a rich, classically styled Chardonnay with medium to full-bodied richness and depth in its toasty oak, ripe apple, cream and crush rock-laced bouquet. Fresh, focused and lively, yet with terrific flavor authority, this is a rocking Chardonnay that readers shouldn't miss. It was bottled unfiltered last December after spending 15 months in 33% French oak. -Jeb Dunnuck

With an exotic, tropical edge, this wine takes time to develop, like a flower closed up overnight. Medium in body and length, it teases in honeysuckle, white peach and fresh pineapple, before delivering a tartness of lemon zest and well-defined minerality on the finish.