White

Chalk Hill Sauvignon Blanc (Chalk Hill)

Chalk Hill · Sonoma · United States

Fact sheet

frutos do mar · saladas de verão · queijos de cabra · pratos asiáticos · frango grelhado

201592 pts

Fresh and vibrantly floral on the nose and palate, this lovely white from the musqué clone imparts full-bodied, voluptuous layers of pineapple and grapefruit rind, lingering long on the finish.
201288 pts

Nicely dry and tart in acidity, this pretty wine is fine to drink now. Flavors recall citrus fruits with richer notes of papayas, along with gooseberries and green mint from cool-climate grapes. Made without the malolactic fermentation, the wine was coopered in 55% French oak.
201085 pts

Chalk Hill's 2010 seems a little too underipe for comfort, although it is clean and dry, with some pleasant citrus and peach flavors.
200892 pts

A bright, beautifully brisk Sauvignon Blanc, marked with crisp acidity and racy flavors of citrus fruits and gooseberries, accented with sweet oak. It's a creamy, deliciously complex wine, and although it's fully dry, it finishes with a honeyed richness.
199985 pts

This is one big wine; and in our opinion it's largely overdone. When butter and burnt toast dominate fruit, it's not going to be perceived as being varietally correct, and most tasters will probably struggle to peg it as SB. From a flavor perspective, it's chock full of banana,…