More golden apples, toasted bread, and white flower notes emerge from the 2019 Chardonnay Cougar Ridge Vineyard, another beautiful Alexander Valley Chardonnay that does everything right. Medium-bodied, nicely textured, up-front, and ready to go, enjoy bottles over the coming 2-4 years.

Lots of ripe black cherries, roasted herbs, earth, and spice notes emerge from the 2018 Pinot Noir Fog Veil, a medium-bodied, nicely textured, balanced Pinot Noir that has a spicy, herbal, earthy edge. It's well done and should keep for 4-5 years.

The 2018 Chardonnay Kelli Ann Vineyard comes from the Russian River and has a classic, up-front, sweetly fruited, sexy style as well as lots of pineapple and honeyed peach fruits, medium body, a supple, elegant texture, and good acidity that keeps the wine clean and classy. I wouldn't push the aging curve too much, but it should have a solid 4-5 years of longevity.

Plenty of honeysuckle, white flowers, and both peach and pineapple notes emerge from the 2017 Chardonnay Durell Vineyard, a nicely textured, soft, supple, elegant 2017 that's drinking nicely today.

More citrus, mint, and dried herb notes emerge from the 2018 Chardonnay Tidal Break Vineyard. Medium-bodied, it has a terrific sense of minerality, good overall balance, and a distinct salinity on the finish. It's another incredibly charming, impeccably made Chardonnay from this label.

The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Poet's Peak is another attractive, solid Cabernet Sauvignon from this team that has a dense purple hue, wonderful purity and finesse, medium body, and textbook Cabernet Sauvignon notes of blue and black fruits, violets, crushed stone, and a touch of cedarwood. It too should keep for a decade.

Coming from the Anderson Valley, the medium ruby, semi-opaque 2019 Pinot Noir Outland Ridge offers a fruit-forward, ripe, nicely textured and medium-bodied style with impressive red fruits, rose petal, spice, and loamy earth-like aromas and flavors. As with everything here, it's well-made and a delicious drink.

The 2019 Chardonnay Seco Highlands Jackson Estate comes from the Arroyo Seco appellation and is a classic California Chardonnay with its ripe peach and tropical fruits as well as honeysuckle, mint, acacia flowers, and stony mineral notes. It has good purity, plenty of distinct minerality, medium body, and subtle toasty, nutty nuances on the finish, all making for a terrific, outstanding Chardonnay that should keep for 2-3 years.

The 2019 Pinot Noir Edmeades Vineyard is more subtle aromatically yet slowly gives up solid red berry-like fruits as well as sappy herbs, cedarwood, and spice. Another medium-bodied, lightly textured, elegant Pinot Noir in the lineup, it should keep for 5-6 years.

More Bing cherries, sappy flowers, and burnt orange all emerge from the 2019 Pinot Noir Cote Bannie, and it's nicely textured, with building structure and juicy acidity. I like its balance, and I suspect another year in bottle will do it well. It should keep for at least 7-8 years in cold cellars.

Coming from the Anderson Valley, in the northern part of California, the 2019 Chardonnay Skycrest offers a medium gold hue as well as impressive dried citrus, white flowers, and chalky mineral-like aromas and flavors. Nicely textured, medium-bodied, and balanced, this rock-solid Chardonnay will keep for 3-5 years, if not longer.

There are two Sauvignon Blancs. Looking first at the 2019 Sauvignon Blanc, it's a Bordeaux Blanc look-alike with impressive peach, citrus, subtle mineral, and toasted almond notes in its medium-bodied, soft, forward, yet balanced and delicious style. It's going to shine on the dinner table and be incredibly versatile.

Peppery Cab with some jammy dark fruit feels. It has a very balanced mouthfeel with soft fruit and well-woven tannins. The structure of this wine is so sound, it sings on the palate. You can even go with duck here.

I’m a bit behind with this Yangarra Blanc 2020, but it’s still looking good. McLaren Vale white blend, in the mode of a Chateauneuf du Pape blanc. 62% Grenache Blanc this vintage, fermented in ceramic eggs and older barrel for 4 months. No sulphur until bottling. What a regime for a $27 wine!A nice, fresh and lively drink too. Soft and creamy at the edges but it’s a taut white underneath. I like this sort of frisky, yet not unripe, drink. It’s just a little bit phenolic and pithy to finish, but plenty of refreshment here.Yangarra Blanc 2020. Best drinking: nowish. Might even be better next year.

This gold straw colored Chardonnay opens with a nectarine and pineapple bouquet with hints of oak. On the palate, this wine is medium bodied, balanced and has rounded edges. The flavor profile is mild apple and gentle pineapple with notes of pie crust. Hints of oak and lemon. The finish is dry and its flavors linger nicely. This Chard is food friendly and would pair well with a roasted garlic chicken.

This estate-grown sparkler is lean and bracing, leading with scents of wild strawberry and orange peel. The flavors broaden to juicy apple, framed by fine toasty lees, rounded, composed and balanced for a filet of arctic char.

Distinctive, with dried sage, rosemary, cigar box and hinoki oil, complimenting the ripe plum and cherry cobbler flavors that are harmonious and savory on the finish, with feltlike tannins. Drink now through 2032.

This red blend has bright and spicy red and dark-berry aromas with a floral edge, as well as subtle, earthy and stony nuances. The palate is bright, light and focused on red-berry flavors. Drink now. Screw cap.

Very delicate on the nose, this rosé begins with clean and tight aromas of rose petal and red apple. There’s a line of chalk to the palate, where wet stone, pluot and light pomegranate flavors align.

From the Barham Vineyard, this bottling begins with deep and dark aromas of black currant, blackberry and purple flowers on the nose. The palate is loaded with candied purple fruit and flowers, cut by a line of intranet acidity and rounded with a bit of smoke.

Light lemon aromas meet with warm, toasty oak tones on the comfortingly familiar nose of this bottling. Salted lemon-wedge, pineapple and cantaloupe flavors arise on the sip, which lends into more sea salt and nuts on the finish.

Well-structured, with ripe spiciness to the dark plum, cherry tart and dried blackberry flavors, backed by fresh acidity and tannins. Cocoa powder and cooking spice accents power the lithe finish. Drink now through 2025.

If you’re a fan of Siduri you know their focus has always been pinot noir. That has changed. They have just released their first chardonnay coming from the Willamette Valley in Oregon. This is a mild chardonnay, subtle, subdued, not a big overwrought chardonnay. There is very much a lively quality to it, which makes it a very pleasant wine by itself and a great accompaniment to food. Though the elements of lemon lime, guava nectar, white peach and wildflowers, are all evident, these are all quiet elements. Even the fermentation, which one would expect would result in a larger wine is something more reductive. Therefore you end up with a chardonnay that is almost afraid to announce itself. And it is this subtlety that makes it all the more enjoyable. Aged in 25% new French oak for just 10 months, it was fermented in both stainless steel, concrete and barrel.

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2018 Lassegue features expressive notes of stewed red and black plums, boysenberries and Black Forest cake, plus hints of damp soil, black truffles and tapenade. The medium to full-bodied palate delivers bags of black berry preserves flavors, supported by soft, approachable tannins and just enough freshness, finishing earthy.

Light orangish-pink with a tree fruit nose, intense fruit, even. It’s all about the peach on the palate, really peachy. But this wine works as well. Excellent.