Walter Scott, X Novo Chardonnay

Walter Scott, X Novo ChardonnayGlistening yellow. Mineral tinged nectarine, orange, honey and white flowers on the intensely perfumed nose. Silky and tightly focused in the mouth, offering vibrant citrus and orchard fruit flavors that are complemented by suggestions of fennel, sweet butter and saffron. Shows excellent depth as well as energy and finishes minerally, dry and extremely long, with resonating citrus fruit and mineral notes. Josh Raynolds

powerful and muscular flavors that flash good minerality on the balanced but

The sleeker and more intense big-bodied flavors possess excellent delineation that carries over to the naturally sweet

I recorked the bottle and tasted it again a couple of hours later to find that it keeps changing

Where Davide Rosso goes from here with his Rionda bottling is limited only by his own ambition

intense and pure middle weight flavors that exhibit fine detail on the mineral-inflected

silky and fine

all of which is trimmed in soft wood nuances

Spanish cedar and cinnamon

40 ha holding

violet and a lovely array of spice elements

it’s vinous with bright acids and a lingering

There is outstanding density and evident power to the larger-scaled flavors that possess plenty of sappy dry extract that also buffers the firm acid spine shaping the impressively long and complex finale