Walter Scott, Justice Vineyard Chardonnay

Walter Scott, Justice Vineyard ChardonnayThe 2022 Chardonnay Justice Vineyard displays a bright yellow hue in the glass and has more lifted reduction on the nose, with savory notes of gunflint, bright citrus, radish, white pepper, and apple skin. Its linear, persistent, and long on the palate, with a chalky texture and a long finish. Give it another year or two to flesh out, when its fruit will be bolstered a touch. Drink 2025 2035. 165 cases were produced.

Old World scents of bloody steak

The supple but tautly muscular medium weight plus flavors possess a suave mouth feel thanks to the abundant dry extract that both coats the palate and buffers the very firm tannic spine on the highly persistent and imposingly powerful finish

The 2019 Colle Vota will require time to fully blossom as it is primary and palate-staining today

Dosage is 4

Here too the wood treatment is all but invisible and does not interfere with the transparency of the ripe yet cool and ultra-pure nose of red pinot fruit where the mineral influence is quite prominent

richer and denser than those of the Champeaux but ultimately less complex and not quite as deep on the backend

humus and truffle

Otherwise the dense

This is a terrific villages that easily approaches 1er quality

There is really lovely detail to the refined yet muscular and powerful medium-bodied flavors that possess plenty of minerality on the firmly structured and youthfully austere finish

yuzu and lemon curd with touches of chalk dust and fresh ginger

red and dark cherry and a whiff of plum liqueur