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NORTH AMERICAN NEW RELEASES
US: C A L I FO RNIA WHIT E S
ALBARINO
449873

90 | Eighty Four

$28

2016 Napa Valley Albariño ^ This is a project from Doug Shafer and Elias Fernandez,
the Shafer team that started making wine
together in 1984. It comes from Red Shoulder Ranch in Carneros, where Shafer planted
a small block of albariño in 2012. The wine
gains focus with air as it moves from juicy
orange flavors to bright and clean notes of
beeswax and spice. It's a supple white, more
for food from the land than the sea.
449996

88 | Tangent

briny. If you're searching for fruit, you might
find a little lemon pith, or you could think of
the flavor as the fruitiness of a green olive.
That fruit character is crunchy and dynamic,
the texture pampered by oak, its time in barrel adding a satiny gloss without taking over
the wine. It's a chardonnay that speaks of
Napa Valley rather than holding to a sweet
and tropical New World style, offering a
bridge to bring wine geeks and chardonnay
moms together at one table. (4,500 cases)

character is tied to the maturity of the vines
in the Carneros vineyard, planted to a mix
of heritage clones. It feels cool and spicy, the
structure underlined by oak, with the dynamism of the fruit persisting in a tangy finish.
449967

91 | Thomas Fogarty

$62

2014 Santa Cruz Mountains Langley Hill
Vineyard Chardonnay ^ While this feels a
bit trapped in oak at first, there's a lemonoil brightness to the fruit that's appealing.
Decant it to allow the fruit to weave with the
wood spice and you'll have a regal wine with
honeycomb and chamomile aromas and the
warm yet mineral tone of mountain-grown
California chardonnay. (97 cases)

$17

2015 Edna Valley Paragon Vineyard
Albariño (Best Buy) ^ Tart but charming,
this weaves brisk flavors of sea salt and green
plum with a subtle floral lift. Open it with
steamed clams. (4,103 cases)

BLENDS

449966

92 | Thomas Fogarty

$35

2014 Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay ^
Grown at Fogarty's cool home estate in the
northern Santa Cruz Mountains, as well as
a second estate vineyard on a warmer ridge
further south, this is so intense at first that it
feels almost aggressive-a tight, burled-up
core of salt, tart acidity and spicy alcohol.
As it takes on air its graciousness unfurls,
becoming rich and substantial, accented by
aromas of white flowers and toasted nuts and
finishing with a briny, lemon-rind brightness.
Give it two or three years in the cellar, then
open it for a fatty fish dish like salt-grilled
salmon shioyaki. (1,944 cases)

449792

90 | Chalone Vineyard

$30

2014 Chalone Chardonnay ^ Warm and
spicy, this has a clean, fragrant red-apple
flavor that lasts. It's firm, powerfully ripe
chardonnay, distinctive for its tacky crunch
of small berries-a result of the warm, dry
growing conditions on Chalone's granitic
plateau. (1,030 cases)

449288

88 | Fess Parker

$20

2015 Santa Barbara County Marcella's
White Wine (Best Buy) ^ Based on grenache
blanc and viognier, this is a lush white, its
scents of flint and lemon oil giving way to a
warmer spiced-tangerine flavor that finishes
zingy and clean, its freshness outlasting any
waxiness. A summer aperitif. (3,046 cases)
450220

CHARDONNAY

449354

92 | Grgich Hills

450266

93 | Groth

$30

2015 Napa Valley Hillview Vineyard Chardonnay (Best Buy) ^ A tightly focused, earthdriven chardonnay, this wine is savory and
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$50

2014 Napa Valley 40th Anniversary Chardonnay ^ This wine celebrates the fortieth
chardonnay harvest since the wine Mike
Grgich made at Chateau Montelena won
the Judgment of Paris tasting. He went on
to found Grgich Hills, and now works with
his nephew Ivo Jeramaz, who farms the winery's estate vineyard in Carneros organically,
and barrel ferments this wine without added
yeast. The 2014 is exotic, with scents of Asian
pear, orange oil and cherimoya pointed up by
honeyed spice. Jeramaz finds that honeyed

90 | Qupé

$30

87 | Trinity River

$18

2014 Santa Maria Valley Bien Nacido
Block 11 Chardonnay (Best Buy) ^ Bob
Lindquist uses the fruit from Block 11, a
steep hillside at Bien Nacido, to produce
this intense and flavorful Santa Maria chardonnay. This warm vintage brought a beeswax scent, a creamy texture and a ripe pineapple flavor, while the site's cool northwest
exposure preserved enough citrus acidity to
freshen its barrel-aged richness. (534 cases)
450117
2015 Willow Creek Unoaked Chardonnay (Best Buy) ^ Grown on the border of


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