Chalk Hill Estate

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Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine awards the 2003 Chalk Hill Estate Bottled Chardonnay 91 Points

Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine, October 2006

Kudos to Chalk Hill for capturing both the ripe, friendly fruit that is so central to the California Chardonnay model and also the underlying brightness that has become part and parcel of what looks to be the new paradigm for this grape. Young, bright, outgoing and focused on Gala apples in its nose, the wine is fairly full in body at entry and finds a minerally streak of firmness in its underbelly. It is delightfully long on the palate and seems to have all the pieces in place to age comfortably for several years to come.