This is a tight, young wine, bursting with well-charred oak aromas and flavors that add smoke, vanilla and buttered toast to the underlying tropical fruit and spice flavors. There’s also quite a bit of acidity, making this crisp wine lively and clean. ——S.H.(2/1/2004)—— 90

Moderate quantities of spicy wood, tropical fruits, and smoke are present in the medium-bodied, fragile, but delicious 1999 Chardonnay Reserve. It requires consumption over the next year, and represents California's interpretation of a Meursault from France's Cote d'Or.Tel. (707) 996-4480

A lively citrus tang balances the rounder fig, melon, toast and dried spice flavors that predominate here. Finishes evenly with medium length. It seems to be at its peak, so drink this round and well-integrated Chardonnay up now.——W.E.(7/1/2001)—— 88

The fully mature 1996 Chardonnay Reserve offers a buttery, mineral, stewed, rich character. Pure, user-friendly, medium-bodied, and not overly-oaked, it should drink well over the next year. Tel. (707) 996-4480

This full-bodied, toasty (pain grillee) wine possesses good depth, attractive, buttery, pineapple and peach-like fruit, a fleshy, low acid personality, and a lusty, heady finish. Drink it over the next 8-10 months.Tel. (707) 996-4480