Slate and chalk driven minerality are backed by golden apple and subtle tropical fruit on the nose. Palate has excellent balance with fresh squeezed lemon and lemon grass notes bouncing around on vibrant acidity. Finishes with sense of creaminess and persistence. Drink or hold. — 7 years ago
A really beautiful New World Chardonnay. Initial notes of golden apple and a touch of pineapple. Balanced acidity and oakiness come through as lemon curd and vanilla. — 9 years ago
Great start to the #f1 season with a beer a good friend brought to the house. Delicious and refreshing. 🍻🍻🍻 — 9 years ago
Golden straw in color with white flower and tropical fruit on the nose. Medium body and slightly buttery palate are balanced by a substantial amount of acid. The cool Carneros climate and high acidity make for an excellent Chablisian-style wine that paired well with smoked fish. — 10 years ago
Great acidity is there, with golden fuji apples, tart Asian pears, honey, yellow blossoms, and pine nuts. — 10 years ago
The golden colour with its creamy buttery nutty aroma still draws me in like the 2011 bottle did. The peach and melon flavours became the backbone of its savoury and slightly smokey characters. The sweet sensation from its high alcohol content makes tasting this wine almost like eating a pudding with a layer of caramel - like the Taiwanese's favourite Tong Yi pudding if you have ever had it. — 10 years ago
Soft sweet white! — 11 years ago
II’ve loved all the Sandhi 2012 range of whites & this £65 S&B is superb 👍 Paired with enough curry to get a small village going regular for a week 🤣 💨 sorry I didn’t take pics of that feast 😁
📍 Sandhi Sandford & Benedict Santa Rita Hills Chardonnay 2012 @sandhiwines
🏵 94 points
🍷 Golden yellow
👃 Chopped pineapple, crushed rock mineral, lemon oil, key lime pie, honey gloop & white jasmine flowers w/ light oak, vanilla & apple
👄 Med+ body of creamy refreshing clean tropical & citrus yummyness without being overly syrupy & a hit of green apple, pineapple, honey & minerality in med acidity
🎯 Med+ fresh apple, citrus & tropical trickle w/ a dry mineral honeyed pineapple slapette — 6 years ago
I wanted to pop the 2013 but had it in my offsite. Popped this at cellar temp and double decanted to wake it up. Beautiful golden color. A nose summed up well by my 3 year old as “everything”. Topical and peachy fruits with a lot of lychee, spring flowers, baking spices, freshly baked muffins. Great texture underneath white tea, lemon curd, and vanilla. Long and lingering finish with racy acid. I did expect a little more butter and roundness but this was beautiful nonetheless. — 7 years ago
Served slightly chilled. Golden color. Nose of lemon and gasoline. Full body with stone fruit and a medium finish. Lovely. — 9 years ago
While a little more golden in color than anticipated, it was a beautiful wine with some great grilled bread and apple notes. — 10 years ago
Melty and grassssss — 10 years ago
Rich and amber-hued, this dessert wine offering from cult winery, Sine Qua Non is crafted from 100% botrytized Viognier. Harvested at 42 brix, it's a remarkable elixir that offers up notes of ripe apricot, orange marmalade, mace and vanilla. Concentrated, waxy and viscous. There is enough acidity to bolster hedonistic flavors of bruised pear, golden raisin, clover honey and whole cloves on the finish. Ample spice notes gather like an impending storm on the tip of the tongue. Exotic and very memorable. — 10 years ago
Love it when out of town regulars can't take open bottles with them! Littorai is always a treat! Dense core of golden fruit, floral spices, flinty smoke, butterscotch. — 11 years ago
Golden in color. Big fat and creamy — 7 years ago
Rombauer Vineyards was founded in 1982 by Koerner and Joan Rombauer and sits on a tree covered knoll overlooking the Napa Valley. The winery features caves that extend for over a mile into the hillside. Golden straw with aromas of stone and tropical fruit with sweet oak spice scents. On the palate peach, melon and apple, with soft vanilla spice, rich & creamy. Lingering smooth finish, well balanced ending with mineral notes. — 7 years ago
Showing some age. Golden. — 9 years ago
At first the oak was over whelming but after an hour the bold rich golden flavored melded. The finish is stunning. — 9 years ago
Very clean tasting with mild hops. Nice low alcohol for an afternoon drink. — 10 years ago
A stunner, never would have guessed. — 10 years ago
Butter, golden oak — 11 years ago
Really nice and round. Nice oak and golden raisin, peach and floral notes on the palate, really nice peach aromas, also a slight minerality on the back end. Really well done! Slightly buttery too. — 11 years ago
Lydia Barnett
This wine was really special. 2015. Beautiful golden hue. — 6 years ago