Rhys Alpine Vineyard Chardonnay 2016 Santa Cruz USA Chateau Fontenil with notes of watermelon

with notes of watermelon

This has a very delicious and attractive nose offering ample dark berries and plums with cocoa and freshly cut bracken

100% Chardonnay that remains on its lees until being disgorged just before leaving the cellar

The 2016 Taillefer is a straightforward

this estate of 84 acres has produced a perfumed and rich wine

Rhys Alpine Vineyard Chardonnay 2016 Santa Cruz USA Chateau Fontenil with notes of watermelonThe 2016 Chardonnay Alpine Vineyard is a stunning young wine that's one of the best whites Rhys has produced to date. Opening up with vivid aromas of lemon oil, citrus pith, crisp apple and nutmeg, it's fuller bodied, glossier and more textural than the Horseshoe bottling, with a broader attack as well. But it's also intensely saline and mineral, with wonderful concentration and intensity. Several years of patience will be rewarded by greater