Always one of my favorite cuvées from Kistler, the 2020 Chardonnay Laguna Ridge Vineyard has loads of personality and density. Struck match scents give way to white peaches, lime peel, jasmine, spring butter and pie spices, with a singular streak of alluring herbal character. The palate's mouth-coating, expansive texture and concentrated fruit are balanced by tangy acidity and flinty character on the long finish.

The 2018 Chardonnay Laguna Ridge Vineyard is only bottled in magnum. It has delicate aromas of flint, saline and roasted almonds with wafts of floral perfume over a core of toasty peaches plus hints of quince paste and beeswax. Medium-bodied, it slowly gains amplitude in the mouth, beginning minerally and transforming to toasty, iodine-tinged fruits. It has very fresh, uplifting acidity and finishes incredibly long with shifting flavor layers.

First made in 2015 and always the lowest pH wine in the lineup, the 2018 Chardonnay Laguna is released only in magnum, with the goal of encouraging people to give it some bottle age. Despite the high acidity, it's beautifully done and balanced, with racy notes of lemon curd, honeyed toast, ample minerality, and spice all emerging from the glass. Medium-bodied, with a chiseled, focused, yet still pleasurable mouthfeel, it needs to be forgotten for 4-5 years and is probably going to be the longest-lived Chardonnay in the vintage.

The 2017 Chardonnay Laguna Ridge Vineyard features scents of baclava, baked apples, quince paste, lime peel and warm yellow peaches with notions of gunflint, hazelnut, citrus blossoms and crushed stone. Medium-bodied with a lovely creamy texture, it has intense flavor layers, uplifting tangy acidity and a very long, flavorful finish. This is only produced in magnums.