2022 Peake Ranch Chardonnay Santa Rita Hills

JD95 The 2022 Chardonnay Peake Ranch Vineyard offers a touch more complexity, offering ripe citrus and orchard fruits, spice, tropical flowers, and green almond notes in a medium-bodied, pure, focused, balanced package. It has the fruit and suppleness of the vintage yet brings good acidity and a focused, elegant mouthfeel. I love it today, yet it has the balance and vibrancy to evolve nicely for 5-7 years, if not longer.
WE93 Lively melon and pear flesh aromas are clean, expressive and balanced by a touch of chalk on the nose of this bottling. The palate adds a touch of honeysuckle and apple to the mix, which relies on that chalky tension to sail into the finish.