The star of the show is the 2016 Chardonnay Roza Hills and it comes from a site in the Rattlesnake Hills region and was brought up roughly one-quarter new French oak. It has riviting minerality as well as classy notes of lemon, buttered citrus, toasted spice, and brioche. Deep, full-bodied, seamless, and elegant on the palate, it’s the finest Chardonnay I’ve tasted from Washington.

A plot on chalk soils planted in 1972, this has a lemon-cooler nose with wet-stone nuances, as well as a gently reductive edge. The fruit is somewhere in between pear and peach with lightly spiced custard notes on the nose and palate. Has salient crispness and depth. Good tension, too. Drink or hold.

Food-friendly upon release, the 2016 Chardonnay Roza Hills Vineyard opens with a lively tension of fresh lemon tart. The full-bodied palate offers a crisp, clean expression of Chardonnay with firm acidity, richness and an oaked expression that is more evident with this bottling than the Moxee or Frenchman Hills bottlings of the same range. The wine ends with a thoughtfully long finish, with a citrus kiss and soft spiciness on the aftertaste. - Anthony Mueller

This wine comes from vines planted in 1977 at 1,350 above sea level—high by the state's standards. Half fermented in concrete with the rest in oak barrel before being aged in puncheons, aromas of toast, pineapple, lanolin, cream and spice lead to a full-bodied palate, with textured tropical-fruit flavors. It's a tasty, full-bodied, rich, very stylistic offering of the variety that need some time in the cellar. Best after 2023. - SEAN P. SULLIVAN