Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Estate Reserve 2021 750ml

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Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Estate Reserve 2021 750ml

Name: Mount Eden Vineyards Chardonnay Estate Reserve 2021 750ml
Brand: Mount Eden Vineyards
SKU: 1023303
Price: 72.94 USD
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Rating: 94.4 (5 reviews)

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I was quite impressed with the 2021 Chardonnay Reserve, which, even in its youth, delivers everything one can expect from a Mount Eden Chardonnay: rich, golden power with equal measure of clarity, vibrancy, dimension and length. The nose is round, detailed and pleasantly lees-influenced, gradually revealing citrus and flint top notes. It is suave, tensile and seamless on the palate, concluding with a punchy yet slow-moving, nuanced finish that gains tension with time in the glass. This deserves another few years in the cellar to blossom, and I suspect that fans of mature Mount Eden Chardonnay will be rewarded by aging this into its second decade.

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

Size: 750ml
Color: White

SKU: 1023303

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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

WA 95pts

Wine Advocate

VM 95pts

Vinous Media

The 2021 Chardonnay Reserve was aged for ten months in French oak, followed by an additional year in stainless on the lees. It’s fresh, slightly reductive and potently concentrated—a very young wine that’s loaded with phenolics and dry extract. Apricot, flint, crushed rocks and floral top notes meet with a potent but measured array of super-fine tannin and gentle saline energy. Fruit is decidedly pushed to the background. Give the 2021 a couple of years in the cellar to unfurl. There’s so much stuffing here.

JD 95pts

Jeb Dunnuck

Bottled at the same time as the estate 2022, the 2021 Chardonnay Reserve sees more lees contact, aging on the lees in new and one-year-old French oak over 10 months, then another year on the lees in tank before yet more years of aging in bottle. There’s tremendous structure and tension, as well as a highly refined palate of elegant stone and orchard fruit to the wine, a medium-bodied, lovely, balanced expression of the exceptional site and winemaking at its core. Even more aging is recommended; enjoy best 2031-2051.

WS 94pts

Wine Spectator

Shows its maturity, with toast, grilled lemon and dried apricot flavors drizzled with clover honey, plus notes of caramel, honey cake, panna cotta, orange cheesecake and marmalade. Still vibrant and expressive, this gains momentum on the finish. Drink now through 2042.

JS 93pts

James Suckling

So full of texture and personality, with nectarines, citrus, salty minerality, white tea and chamomile. Tensile acidity and lemon blossoms in the finish. Hold for a year or two, and then enjoy over the next several.

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