Rich and elegantly structured, our 2021 Durell Vineyard Chardonnay offers a lush complement of peach pastry, apple tart and buttered toffee notes buoyed by bright acidity and hints of wet stone and lemon zest on the palate, with a lively tension that persists throughout the wine’s long peaches and cream finish.

This initial bottling from one of our favorite vineyards reminds us very much of the wines of Pugliny-Montrachet, offering up all the intense aromatics, rich mouthfeel, bracing minerality and structural elegance you could want.  Our 2021 Roberts Road Chardonnay offers up juicy honeysuckle, orange rind and lemon curd notes that gain complexity on the palate with the emergence of wet stone, white peach and a sweet roasted grain richness that hints of just baked apple tart. Bright acidity adds buoyancy to the long complex finish.

Boasting the vineyard’s famed “cherry pie in a glass” signature, our 2021 Gap’s Crown Pinot Noir lives up to expectations.  It opens with cherry, sweet vanilla and toast notes that gain hints of baking spice with air.  On the palate berry compote and brioche are cradled by soft tannins.

Our 2021 Garys’ Vineyard Pinot Noir is a strikingly expressive wine, boasting the seductive dark fruit and focused structure that this storied vineyard is known for. Fresh blueberry compote, black cherry and raspberry form the wine’s juicy core with hints of brown spice and sweet pipe tobacco adding dimension. On the palate, the mouthfilling richness finds tension from bright acidity that lifts and enlivens the long berry-tinged finish.

Our 2021 Fighting Brothers Zinfandel packs a wallop in a silk glove, at once both richly mouthfilling and handsomely structured. Brooding, ripe blackberry and raspberry flavors do the heavy lifting, with bright floral, sage, and sweet vanilla notes adding detail and dimension. Polished fine grain tannins carry the wine’s seductive richness through the lengthy finish.

Complex and aromatic, this inaugural bottling of the 2021 Saxon Brown GMS bursts with lush, high-toned red berry and blueberry notes courtesy of the Grenache, savory charcuterie and garrigue accents from the Syrah and from the Mouvedre, a mouthfilling richness and texture that melds the expressive parts into the sumptuous whole. Hints of black olive and spice linger on the long, polished finish.