2022 Sandar & Hem Chardonnay Mountain Winery Vineyard, Santa Cruz Mountains
San Francisco Wine Panel Score 96 Points
If embracing the more graceful side of this appellation, this wine is in all other ways true true to it. The aromas are a sophisticated mix of white peach, baked apple, orange zest and lemon cream pie scents underpinned by flinty minerality and caressed by quietly seductive hazelnut and honey hints. It is as once delicately succulent, palate-coating and long-lingering in the mouth, where the complex aromatic personality is gracefully replicated. yet with a bit more youthful zest. Delicious and food-worthy now, it will be better still in another twelve to eighteen months.