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Rating: 94 –94
The 2018 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard, aged 13 months in 55% new French oak, has open-knit aromas of baked yellow apples, lemon meringue, beeswax and spices. In the mouth, it's medium-bodied and satiny in texture, with minerally fruits, bright acidity and a delicate finish. This is youthfully coiled and will benefit from another year or two in bottle. 1,050 cases produced.
Rating: 95 –95
The 2019 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard explodes with perfume: white peaches, dried flowers, spring honey and exotic herbal notes that, combined with a whiff of graphite-like minerality, gives this wine a unique personality. The palate is wonderful, full and satiny and loaded with perfumed fruits, and it finishes with appealing juiciness and loads of flavor. It's incredibly gregarious for its age and can be enjoyed straight from bottle.
Rating: 92 –92
The 2020 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard, harvested after the fires began on August 17, is scented of baked apples and pears with accents of beeswax, pie spice and baker's yeast. The medium-bodied palate is creamy and expansive with bright acidity and a long, textural finish. Drink it over the next 3-5 years.
Rating: 94 –94
The 2021 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard was matured for 14 months in 54% new French puncheons. It has pure scents of apricot, toast, acacia, flint and iodine with savory undertones. The medium-bodied palate is silky and seamless with mineral-driven fruit and a long, honey-nut finish. It will benefit from 2-3 years in bottle. 1,076 cases produced.
Rating: 92 –92
Harvested September 14 through September 17, the 2022 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard was barrel fermented and matured for 14 months in 50% new, 500-liter Damy puncheons. It has alluring aromas of white peach, nectarine, Greek yogurt and apple blossoms. The medium-bodied palate pairs a satiny texture and creamy flavors with tangy acidity, and it has a long, bright finish. 826 cases produced.
Rating: 95 –95
The Chardonnays are all barrel-fermented in puncheons and barrels, and go through 100% malolactic. The 2015 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard has a gorgeous nose of orange blossoms, ginger and allspice over a core of ripe peaches, apple pie and pink grapefruit plus a waft of cedar. Medium-bodied with a seductive satiny texture, it delivers intense stone fruit and mineral flavors with superb grace, finishing long and multi-layered.
Rating: 95 –95
The 2016 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard has a seductively peachy nose with notions of white peaches, beeswax, ginger and honeysuckle with hints of crushed rocks and green guava. Medium to full-bodied, the palate delivers bags of stone fruit and tropical flavors with a creamy texture and lively line lifting the very long, spicy finish. 1,045 cases produced.
Rating: 93 –93
The 2017 Chardonnay Pastorale Vineyard was aged for 13 months in 60% new French puncheons. It has a bright nose of lime peel, crushed stone, spring honey, soft white peach and dried hay. Medium to full-bodied, it offers great concentration of fruit and mineral flavors in the mouth, with honeyed accents, tangy acidity and a long, mineral finish. 940 cases produced.