Mount Eden Vineyards
Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay
Santa Cruz Mountains, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
Mount Eden's 2018 Chardonnay offers a fabulous interplay of richness and energy. A wine of linear intensity, the 2018 could use a few more years in bottle to be at its best, but it is super-impressive, even now, in what is very clearly the early going. Lemon confit, mint, orange peel, spice and light butter notes all build into the articulate, polished finish. This is such a classy wine. Give it a few years to come together. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, May 2022)
Mount Eden's 2018 Chardonnay offers a fabulous interplay of richness and energy. A wine of linear intensity, the 2018 could use a few more years in bottle to be at its best, but it is super-impressive, even now, in what is very clearly the early going. Lemon confit, mint, orange peel, spice and light butter notes all build into the articulate, polished finish. This is such a classy wine. Give it a few years to come together. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, May 2022)
Oh geez!!! The whole party is obsessed… holy Sh…t…. We can have three of this for the Mersault which was 2nd
Oh geez!!! The whole party is obsessed… holy Sh…t…. We can have three of this for the Mersault which was 2nd
Oct 10th, 2023
2018 vintage. Mount Eden Vineyards wine dinner @Mister A’s Restaurant-San Diego. Balanced and low-key. No particular part of the journey screams out for attention; it all plays well together. Some orange creamsicle, Meyer lemon, lychee and vanilla bean all lurking about. So phenomenal. 4.20.23.
2018 vintage. Mount Eden Vineyards wine dinner @Mister A’s Restaurant-San Diego. Balanced and low-key. No particular part of the journey screams out for attention; it all plays well together. Some orange creamsicle, Meyer lemon, lychee and vanilla bean all lurking about. So phenomenal. 4.20.23.
Apr 20th, 2023
2018 vintage. Enveloping, deep French oak nose. Light-medium/medium body. Hammer drops of tangerine, lanolin, Persian lime and guava flavor wise. The 2017 vintage had a little more acidity and is/was showing fantastic but this vintage seems to have a little more “personality.” Obvs super-youthful and needs some space and time. If you can lay off it for a year or two, kudos. For the rest of us mere mortals, this is world-class Chardonnay at a seventh of the comparable French white burg pricing and half/a third of many of the high-end California Chard producers. QPR in spades.
2018 vintage. Enveloping, deep French oak nose. Light-medium/medium body. Hammer drops of tangerine, lanolin, Persian lime and guava flavor wise. The 2017 vintage had a little more acidity and is/was showing fantastic but this vintage seems to have a little more “personality.” Obvs super-youthful and needs some space and time. If you can lay off it for a year or two, kudos. For the rest of us mere mortals, this is world-class Chardonnay at a seventh of the comparable French white burg pricing and half/a third of many of the high-end California Chard producers. QPR in spades.
May 8th, 2022