Kunde Reserve Chardonnay (Sonoma Valley)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

White

Uva

Chardonnay

País

United States

Região

Sonoma Valley · Sonoma

Denominação

Sonoma Valley

Corpo

full

Acidez

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201588 pts

  This wine's tart, high-pitched acidity greets the palate with a youthful splash of lemon and lime before revealing its true concentration of rich toasted oak and baked apple flavor. Fulsome on the palate, it ends on a taste of the tropics.

• 201490 pts

  From older vines on the producer's estate, this wine has a depth of richness to the nose and is intensely powerful in gingerbread and Meyer lemon on the medium-bodied palate. Lemony acidity rounds out the finish, flecked in butter.

• 201390 pts

  From the producer's family estate, this reserve white is golden in color and appropriately rich in crème brûlée and butterscotch, yet balanced and firm. Creamy, it offers flavors and aromas of lush melon and orange, finishing with sumptuous vanilla.

• 201285 pts

  Kunde's Reserve is all about the oak—rich buttered toast, caramel and butterscotch flavors. It overshadows the underlying fruit, but makes for a decadently pleasant sip.

• 201187 pts

  Oak dominates this wine, with buttered toast and caramel flavors riding high over orange, green apple and mango notes. The acidity is mouthwatering, adding vibrance to sheer California power.

• 201090 pts

  Very opulent, almost too much so, with a flood of Key lime pie, pineapple jam, orange, butterscotch and buttered toast flavors that overwhelm in richness. The saving grace is a fine structure of acidity and minerals and a finish that strives to be dry. Drink now with shellfish,…

• 200888 pts

  Very dry, with mouth-watering acidity, but the palate also searches for a little more fruit than the wine offers. Still, the pineapples, peaches and apricots are pleasant enough.

• 200584 pts

  Too oaky, with vanilla, smoky toothpick influences leading to sweet-and-sour pineapple flavors. This problem has plagued Kunde's reserve Chard for the last several vintages.

• 200091 pts

  A terrifically flamboyant wine, filled with jazzy flavors that impress for their sheer hedonism. Peaches and pears veer way over to tropical fruits, and there's a lot of oak and lees to boot. The rich, creamy texture leads to a long, spicy finish in this young, delicious wine.

• 199890 pts

  A tremendously rich, oaky Chard that will blast your socks off and then some. The fruit is really complex, ranging from green apples to savory ripe peaches on into tropical fruit, and there's a dusty sprinkling of cinnamon and ginger. For sur-lie freaks, there's lots of creamy,…