2012 Rhys Chardonnay Alpine Vineyard - USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains (2/5/2019)
Beautifully rich, some umami saline and nice rich minerality on the finish, excellent acidity and fairly primary, but delicious. Not particularly tropical as this wine can sometimes be, maybe a few years of bottle age has tamed this. Quite Meursault-like. (92 pts.)
A few years in the cellar has turned these into some of my very favorite Chardonnays…from anywhere.