Signorello Hope's Cuvée Chardonnay (Napa Valley)

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Tipo

White

Uva

Chardonnay

País

United States

Região

Napa Valley · Napa

Denominação

Napa Valley

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201388 pts

  A full-figured cuvée from older vines, this wine is estate-grown, bottled and left unfiltered, a grand concoction of butter, baked pear and crème brûlée. Given almost two years in 50% new French oak, it's intended to offer richness and concentration, and does it well.

• 201290 pts

  Estate-grown and bottled, this is the winery owner's ode to his mother, and the highest-end white he makes. Deeply layered in fennel and oak, it is a hearty, generous expression of ripe apple and wild vanilla, softly textured, that will benefit from time in the cellar, through 2…

• 201186 pts

  This bottling, from grapes grown in the winery's estate vineyard, has varied over the years. The 2011 vintage is not the finest expression, but it's a soft, easy-drinking Chardonnay with modest peach, pear and mango notes, along with substantial oak influence.

• 201084 pts

  This heavy, oaky wine shows the pitfalls that Napa Valley Chardonnay can fall into. While it's very rich and sweet in tropical fruit and honey, it's soft and structureless, and tastes like it's already going downhill.

• 200993 pts

  This barrel selection has long been Signorello's best Chardonnay, and it still is. It elevates Napa Valley, not the most natural home to Chardonnay, to its finest expression. Earthy but complex, it has intricate citrus, tropical fruit and oak flavors, as well as a firm mineralit…