A little shy on the nose initially, gave the overall impression of a well crafted Burgundian styled Chardonnay with nice acidity and oak treatment, but I would suggest giving this youngster a couple years in the cellar. Revisiting the wine after being opened for several hours the wine had filled out and showed more lemon which I really enjoyed.

Power was the characteristic of the Stone Côte with a firmer structure, riper fruit, more leesiness, but still enough acidity to keep this muscular Chardonnay balanced and a great cellar candidate.

My favorite white and almost my favorite wine of the tasting the nose was the most delineated (probably because it had the most bottle age) with obvious minerality, citrus, lemon and kumquat, a hint of butterscotch, with a fresh and more regal mouthfeel; overall a very classy wine with still many years ahead of it in the cellar.

Like the 2012 Chardonnay I found this to be a little young and not as expressive as you'd like. The fresh sour cherry and restrained ripeness was appealing but the alcohol stood out a bit on this bottle. Would like to re-taste in a year.

A darker cherry, sweet spice, and plumper profile this did have depth that should more complexity with a couple years of bottle age or consume now for a more hedonistic treat.

A very tasty wine showing added complexity and more pleasing structure and balance, ripe cranberry, dark cherry, spice, ripeness in check and good acid, black tea like tannin grip is very pleasant, alcohol is only slightly elevated, obviously Cali Pinot but no candy, very serious stuff.

My favorite from the tasting. Had the RRV Zin from them recently and was expecting this to be very feminine and soft like that one. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this wine had some claws, very gentle claws, but I liked the structure very much. Tart berry fruit in the darker red to darker end of the spectrum with subtle bramble and smoke notes. The mid-palate from these 100+ year old vines was very respectable along with the 15.5% alcohol that was invisible. Really well done. May need to get some of this.