Acclaim for Los Carneros Chardonnay, Catherine's Vineyard

Ratings

Vintage 2005:

• 86 - Connoisseur's Guide to California Wine - Sept. 2007
  

  “Medium-concentration aromas of apples and rich oak run into a surprising green apple streak that somewhat belies the openness of the first nose. But, despite that later aromatic element, there is nothing about the wine's impact in the mouth that is anything other than full, fleshy and fairly inviting..."

Vintage 2004:

• 88-One Star - Connoisseur's Guide to California Wine - October 2007
  

  “The sweet, slightly honeyed qualities and comparatively fat feel of this very ripe wine convey the impression of a chardonnay nearing its peak, but, if fairly developed and wholly accessible now, it has a fair bit of fruit at its center and is not in danger of falling apart any time soon."

• “California Chardonnay lovers will enjoy this full-bodied wine that's lush with pear, apple, lemon and spicy oak..."
  Lynne Char Bennett

  
  The San Francisco Chronicle's Wine Selections - 7/6/06

Awards

Vintage 2005:

• Gold Medal Winner - San Francisco Chronicle - 2008
  

  The largest wine competition of American Wines in the world!
   

Vintage 2004:

• DOUBLE GOLD MEDAL WINNER - San Francisco Chronicle - 2007
  

  The largest wine competition of American Wines in the world!
   

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