Pale yellow-green color. Wonderfully complex nose offers lime, peach, iodine, minerals, vanilla cream, truffle, smoke, hazelnut and earth. Sweet and lush yet light on its feet; this is actually the lowest in residual sugar of these vineyard-designated chardonnays, though all of them are under one gram per liter. Intriguing notes of biscuit and caramel. Saline and soil-inflected wine, with a long, chewy finish.

This is always the most evolved cuvee. It exhibits notes of tropical fruits lemons, oranges, and tangerines, medium to full body, and a lusty, heady, extroverted style that is unmistakably California in orientation.

Medium-light golden yellow; earthy, spicy, baked apple aroma with a note of cinnamon; tight, crisp lemony, green apple flavors with firm acidity; full body; somewhat hard and harsh on the finish; lingering aftertaste. Developed with airing in the glass though could use another year or two of bottle aging. Very highly recommended.