Morgan Highland Chardonnay (Santa Lucia Highlands)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

White

Uva

Chardonnay

País

United States

Região

Santa Lucia Highlands · Central Coast

Denominação

Santa Lucia Highlands

Corpo

medium

Acidez

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201493 pts

  An amazing wine for less than $30, this bottling by veteran Winemaker Dan Lee starts with tightly wound aromas of dried yogurt, Meyer lemon peel, honeysuckle and Asian-pear flesh. Great grapefruit-pith flavors kick off the sip, where lime juice and baking soda combine for a tigh…

• 201391 pts

  Fresh and approachable but lean and focused on the nose, this wine shows chalk, wet slate, iodine and mandarin orange oil aromas. It's extremely limey and quinine-driven on the tangy palate, with the judicious acidity of squeezed lime and tangerine juice.

• 201287 pts

  The smell of tart green apple frying in butter introduces this bottling from Dan Lee's historic winery. On the palate, lemon-lime spritzer and pear flow into a saline minerality in the midpalate, with acidic tartness emerging on the finish. This is a very tight and focused Chard…

• 201190 pts

  Another fine Chardonnay from this esteemed producer. Shows the house signature of dryness, zesty acidity and a minerally cleanliness like Spring snow melt. It's rich in tropical fruits, with additional layers of cream and vanilla from barrel fermentation.

• 200984 pts

  Made from some great vineyards, but tastes ordinary, with over-oaked flavors of citrus and tropical fruits. Strongly flavored, but coarse and sweet.

• 200691 pts

  Those familiar with Morgan's more expensive Chardonnays, such as the Double L (which comprises 55% of this blend) will find true value in this regional wine. It shows similar power and authority in a showy, Chablis-style wine whose acidic, minerally structure frames intense citr…