Opens with pleasant white flower reduction minor struck match and a touch of oaky vanilla. Then lemon confit and other soft candied notes. Would be an overly opulent profile but it’s well balanced by solid yet mellow acidity. Primary profile could fool me for Chassagne but without laser or hazelnut — a month ago
Classic. Leads with graphite — 2 months ago
Fine. Needs plenty of time — 2 months ago
Well made in a tough vintage. Masculine and phenolic wit being out of balance — a month ago
One word for this wine is concentration. Medium yellow. It radiates from the dark and fascinating profile of hazelnut and almond skin with enough acidity and oak integration to have none of the downside. I hate the expression but as manly of a chardonnay as it gets — a month ago
The wrong kind of natural wine, where instead of tasting terroir you taste whatever germ is under the fingernails. It’s got just about every defect under the sun, from va to oxidation to nasty brown sediments. Feels like one of those “this year it came out fizzy” wines farmers used to make in my childhood town. — a month ago
Not my style yet still remarkable. Voivray-like dried pear on the most almost makes you expect some sweetness, then a lifted and fresh floral profile shows up instead — a month ago
Here we open things up a bit more vs the west Sonoma coast bottling. Same pale yellow but citrus is fresher, white florals more vibrant, some underlying tension below the mellow lemon curd profile — a month ago
Rare misstep from Terlan. Huge, almost unpleasant phenolic grip (!!!) and an orange bitters finish on the pleasantly viscous body, without much complexity after — 2 months ago
Roberto Carli
Great to finally see more California sparkling producers, following the footsteps of Michael Cruse. True tipicity, like a walk in the forest, bitter citrus and conifers. Vinous — 7 days ago