This round white offers poached pear and peach notes lined with honeysuckle, vanilla and baking spice details, all nicely bound by a firm, integrated acidity. Drink now through 2024. 1,642 cases made, 25 cases imported.??–GS??Region: Spain / Penedès Select to Add

The smoky and spicy 2017 Vinya Gigi Chardonnay has minty and pineapple aromas, with a buttery and yeasty touch. The palate has balsamic flavors and integrated acidity. 20,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2018.

The nose of the 2015 Vinya Gigi Chardonnay had reminiscences of pineapple candy and exotic fruit, some orange peel and wet chalk. The palate has intense tropical flavors and moderate acidity. 23,427 bottles.

The barrel-fermented and oaked 2013 Vinya Gigi Chardonnay is rather tropical with some dry hay and smoke aromas plus some butter and popcorn notes. The palate is fresher than I expected, with good acidity and a bittersweet finish that has some flavors of pineapple... in syrup? A good commercial Chardonnay. 21,168 bottles produced.

The 2012 Vinya Gigi Chardonnay is a classical oaked Chardonnay with plenty of aromas of wood shavings, smoke, spices and pineapple with some lemony acidity and a creamy texture ending slightly bitter and dry. A Chardonnay to have with white meat. Drink now-2016. Jean Leon belongs to the Torres family. They have revamped their image and they are using old black and white photographs as well as modernist Catalan designs on their labels. Importer: Dreyfus Ashby & Co., New York, NY; tel. (212) 818-0770