A delicate and fragile beauty, this very dry and crisp muscat has terrific freshness and energy. Brimming with earl grey tea and just a hint of lapsang suchong tea. With aeration notes of rose water and pink grapefruit emerge. Very clean finish.
So much black fruit, black walnuts, blueberries, wet earth, black truffles and some graphite. Medium to full body with lots of tension and focus. It runs very long with a salty undertone and some bitter, burnt lemon. Yet ever so subtle and refined. Drink ...
From a small 8-acre vineyard that was planted in 1997, the 2021 Chardonnay Rancho Ontiveros Vineyard is another juicy, supple, elegant 2021 white from this team. Giving up plenty of honeyed pear and ripe citrus and lemon-like fruit as well as subtle herba...