Kistler - Hyde Vineyard Carneros Chardonnay 2022 (750ml)
Price: $199.99
| Producer | Kistler |
| Country | United States |
| Region | California |
| Subregion | Napa Valley |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 7840 |
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Green-tinged pale yellow. Site-specific aromas of focused, ripe orchard fruit flesh, lightly roasted grains and its marine influence expressed by impressions of crushed oyster shells. Lifted and penetrating, weighted and expressive and yet light on its feet and taut. Offers a firm lengthy acid spine and a slightly oily texture behind its primary green fruited and mineral tones. Fascinating to taste next to the Hudson, noting not just their regional similarities but site informed differences.
Kistler Description
Bottled since 1994. Located in the heart of Carneros, and planted in a marine loam soil set, that becomes leaner as our block transits the hillside. Produces a classically well poised mid-weighted Chardonnay without being heavy; threaded with salient natural acids and a bouquet of green stone and orchard fruit skins and a crushed oyster shell like minerality.
James Suckling: 99 Points
Wow. This is really framed with fine phenolics that melt into the wine and give it such great tension and form. The flavors are full of ripe apples, honey, toasted oak and heather. Extremely long and racy. Such class. Drink after 2028, but already dreamy.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
After opening the 2022 Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard, it opened dramatically over several days. Saline, nori, white pepper and lemon aromas slowly give way to orange peel, apricot, beeswax and floral perfume on the nose. The palate's silky texture and powerfully concentrated fruit are foiled by mouthwatering acidity, and it has a vibrant, expressive finish. That pure, delicate expression is alluring, though it will be long-lived in the cellar.
Vinous: 95 Points
The 2022 Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard is a heady, exotic wine. Viscous and oily in the glass, the 2022 retains gorgeous freshness to balance things out. Lemon confit, spice, butter, apple tart and apricot build with a bit of time in the glass. This is classic Hyde, tempered by the personality of a cool year.
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