We enjoyed this luxurious blend of eight white grapes. You're not sure what you are drinking, but you know you like it. Citrus and tropical fruit notes.

This well-balanced white wine is an imaginative blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier, Chardonnay, Semillon, Roussanne, Pinot Blanc, Riesling and Muscat Canelli drawn from vineyards around California. It comes to the palate as a very fruity wine, but leaves with a dry impression. It offers vibrant flavors of grapefruit, lime, pear, kiwi, honey and white pepper. It's immediately appealing, but with some complexity too.

The '08 California Summation ($17), the first release of a rich and honeyed, floral and nutty blend of nine white grape varieties.

Kendall-Jackson's 2008 Vintner's Reserve Summation is a blend of 10 white grapes (sauvignon blanc, at 31 percent, is the main variety) from up and down the coast. It's quite racy, with citrus and stone fruit notes, a slight creamy note and persistent acidity.

A dry wine with a tiny hint of sweetness; aromas and flavors of grapefruit, peaches and golden apples.

...aromas of peach, floral and musk seem almost viognier-like. Two exotic chard clones, Dijon and Rued, combine here to make the flavors bright and sunny, but also a bit spicy like muscat. It's sunshine in bottle merged with barrel fermentation and lees stirring that make this wine fascinating. Extremely distinct and very pleasant with a clean finish, the wine is like no other chard I've tasted.

Kendall-Jackson's Great Estate portfolio includes a Chardonnay from Arroyo Seco which is as intense and complex as any New World Chardonnay.

...strong aromas of tropical fruit and vanilla that jump from the glass...good concentration and a nicely textured core of tropical fruit that meshes well with the oak...

Subdued nose of pear, citrus skin and vanillin oak. Juicy and brisk, with good texture and intensity and a nicely restrained sweetness for this bottling. Firm acids frame the flavors. Finishes with decent length and a slight alcoholic harshness.

Pretty notes of peach, pear and creme brulee define the likeable aromas here, and sweet peach qualities continue as the central theme of this slick, medium-full-bodied wine's uncomplicated, mildly sugary flavors as well. Very frontal and wanting a bit more fruity depth to ensure successful aging, this is very much a wine for the present.

It was simple...easy to drink and pleasant. We thought that a bottle of this wine, put in a big tub of ice by the pool, would be lovely on a hot day and we wrote: 'Everyone would like this.' We were certainly right about that: It was Kendall-Jackson 1999...

A California premium favorite...

The least expensive of the Kendall-Jackson siblings is the most successful insofar as value is concerned. Its clean-as-can-be delivery of simple, lightly candied fruitiness and sweet oak..."will work...tasty.

Medium gold; butterscotch bouquet; lively bite; apply and honey.

...intense fruity flavors. Sense the tropical fruit, apple, citrus and melon aromas and flavors. This Chardonnay has a crisp, lingering finish...

Aromas of citrus and tropical fruit are interwoven with barrel spices. It's big and rich in the mouth with plenty of fruit but it has a certain leanness that's very appealing. This one's almost chewy in texture; there's that much substance along with plenty of depth. The tropical fruit, lemon drop and tangerine on the palate give way to pinpoint acidity and a long finish.

dry, full-bodied, medium acidity, heavy oak; An explosion of citrus and creamy mango flavors.

...a great value for its quiet, clean chardonnay flavors sharpened and focused by oak. The fruit and wood meld into a brown butter flavor, drawing a line down the middle of the palate...

Bright, pale color. Rather exotic aromas of apricot, tropical fruits, toffee, butter and sweet oak. Chewy and rich in the mouth, with firm acidity leaving the sweet peach and apricot flavors. Finishes ripe and satisfying.

dry, full-bodied, high acidity, heavy oak; A buttery, toasty, pineapple-y cliche of a Chardonnay with a dollop of acidity.

Here is a rich but uneven wine that counts sweet, slightly tropical fruit and a big dose of oak among its assets, but its stiff latter-palate acidity stands in direct contrast to its softer, slightly fat beginnings. A wine of a few too many seams just now, it makes no guarantees that age will bring the integration that it so clearly lacks.

A bit of butter and hints of burnt toast sit atop baked-apple elements in the moderately dense and fairly outgoing aromas here...Medium-full-bodied and slanted to softness, this one imitates sweetness along the way...

Bright tropical fruit nose and flavors, toasty oak, rich and round in the mouth. Very exotic.

…there's no denying the 'grip' this wine has on the market…

Strong flavors of peaches and baked apples, with fresh acidity effectively balancing the wine's full ripeness.