Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Estate 2021 750ml

Name: Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Estate 2021 750ml
Brand: Mount Eden Vineyards
SKU: 1020802
Price: 75.08 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 93.7 (6 reviews)

Case of 12

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SKU 1020802

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JD 96pts

WA 94pts

VM 94pts

JS 93pts

WE 93pts

WS 92pts

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A wine with tremendous lineage and ageability, the 2021 Chardonnay Estate offers a depth of golden nectar, pear, and toasted oak, with a prestigious length and breadth that only begins to suggest its ability to age another 25-30 years. (Winemaker Jeffrey Patterson has been driven for decades by a dedicated vision of longevity for these wines.) The high levels of acidity lead toward a refined palate of elegantly demure fruit, a quench of Meyer lemon, and nuanced, integrated oak, just a touch of hazelnut accenting the long finish to great effect. With its pedigree for aging wines, this should drink best 2031-2046.

Country: United States
Region: California
Appellation: Santa Cruz County
Sub Appellation: Santa Cruz Mountains

Size: 750ml
Color: White

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Winery

Mount Eden Vineyards

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Varietal

Chardonnay

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one that has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is Chardonnay. This green-skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity, which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.

Country

United States

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

Region

California

California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.

Appellation

Santa Cruz County

Ratings & Reviews

JD 96pts

Jeb Dunnuck

WA 94pts

Wine Advocate

The 2021 Chardonnay Estate strikes an admirable balance between textural decadence and tensile sturdiness. It leads with a rich, layered nose of honeyed orchard fruits, blanched almonds and baking spices. The palate harnesses a soft, creamy richness with lifted acidity and impressive, saline length on the finish. Continuing the time-tested style of Mount Eden, this should build further complexity and intensity for nearly a decade.

VM 94pts

Vinous Media

Deep golden yellow in the glass, the 2021 Chardonnay Estate Bottled is soft-spoken and inward today. It's clearly holding its power in reserve as it plots its next move. Briny, focused, lemony acidity presses on with much gusto, energizing a deep well of crushed stones, soft floral tones and green pear fruit. Rounded and enveloping, it unfurls at a snail's pace as lime zest and subtle tropical flourishes inflect the finish. This classy, restrained wine needs a couple of years in bottle to fully blossom.

JS 93pts

James Suckling

A filigreed and pure nose turns to a lean, flinty palate with mouthwatering citrus fruit, tarragon and a finish that nods in the direction of Chablis with its confident chalkiness. Drink or hold, but there is no rush.

WE 93pts

Wine Enthusiast

Smooth and inviting aromas of peach and lemon peel are immensely pleasant on the nose of this bottling. There is ample tension to the palate, which is awash in bold citrus flavors of lemon and grapefruit peel that cut into the apple flesh midpalate and guava-laced finish.

WS 92pts

Wine Spectator

A concentrated white, with white peach, candied orange peel and ginger candy flavors at the core. Cardamom, grilled bread and clove accents give this an aromatic boost, while additional citrus notes on the finish leave a fresh impression. Drink now through 2034. 1,463 cases made.

Winery Notes

In the late 1940s and early 1960s, Martin Ray planted six acres of Chardonnay vines propagated from a Burgundian selection grown in the original Paul Masson vineyard. 20 acres of Estate Chardonnay are now farmed at Mount Eden from which 1,200 to 2,000 cases per year are produced. Yields average one to two tons per acre, far below the average for Chardonnay in California. The Estate Chardonnay grapes are harvested when slightly yellow to yellow-green and are pressed without crushing. All of the juice is barrel-fermented in new and one-year-old French Burgundy barrels, where the wine undergoes full malolactic fermentation and is ages on the lees for ten months before being lightly filtered prior to bottling. The Chardonnay is then cellared for two years before being released for sale.

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Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Estate 2021 750ml

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Winery

Mount Eden Vineyards

Varietal

Chardonnay

Country

United States

Region

California

Appellation

Santa Cruz County

Jeb Dunnuck

Wine Advocate

Vinous Media

James Suckling

Wine Enthusiast

Wine Spectator

Winery Notes

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