Chalk Hill Sauvignon Blanc (Chalk Hill)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

White

Uva

Sauvignon Blanc

País

United States

Região

Chalk Hill · Sonoma

Denominação

Chalk Hill AVA

Corpo

medium

Acidez

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 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,…