Light straw colour with a spicy, baked-apple and citrus nose augmented by a vanilla-oak note. Full-bodied, sweet peachy-pineapple flavours with well-integrated oak and a lively spine of acidity. Long finish.
Intense, deep purple in colour with a cedary, savoury nose of blackcurrant and blackberry; full-bodied, dry, savoury, herbal black-fruit flavours with good length. Tannins are there but nicely resolved.
Rodney Strong was the first to plant Chardonnay in Sonoma's Chalk Hills in 1965, an area that became its own AVA in 1983. The volcanic, chalky, white ash soils, unique to the area, can be seen in the stream of fine minerality throughout this fuller white. I'd love to see less wood here, so the site and soils really rings. As stands now, barrel ferment (partial new) and wood toast leads the creamy palate, with the yellow apple, pear, nougat and lemon curd finishing this off with a trailing spiciness. Less is more, please.
This is old-time California Chardonnay in spades. Yellow straw in colour with a spicy, cedary, toasty, tropical-fruit bouquet; full-bodied, sweet and spicy mango and pineapple flavours that fill the mouth, finishing on toasty oak notes. Good length.
Clear medium-deep garnet. Lots of oak on the nose, overlaying sour cherry, leather and black pepper aromas. Jam-packed with simple but ripe strawberry and plum flavours accented with soft acidity. Drink up.
A smooth and approachable Cab with black cherry, cassis, blueberry, blackberry, mint, smoke, cocoa and vanilla exploding from the glass. Rich; there are no hard edges and it is ready to go
From the cool Monterey region comes this refined Pinot. It features a bouquet of cherry, beetroot and carnation. On the taste buds, the fruit is sweet with earth, vanilla and spice adding complexity.