Kistler Les Noisetiers Chardonnay 2023

Druvor

Chardonnay

Tasting note

A fantastic chardonnay with super phenolic tension and purity of fruit with sliced apple and spiced pear. Reductive and tight. It’s full-bodied, but so reserved and structured with great phenolic tension that is polished and endless. Needs time to open and show you its greatness. Try after 2026.

James Suckling

Sonoma County, Kalifornien, USA Beläget i Sonoma County, norra Kalifornien, har Kistler Vineyards skaffat sig ett stort rykte, särskilt för sina robusta och smöriga Chardonnay-viner, som cementerat sin status som en kultvingård sedan 1980-talet. Kistler är specialiserad på Bourgogne-varianter och tillverkar 10 vingårds-utsedda Chardonnay-viner och fyra utsedda Pinot Noir-viner. Druvorna kommer från tre Sonoma AVA: Sonoma Coast, Sonoma Mountain och Carneros, som korsar Napa Valley AVA. Historia Vingården grundades 1978 av Steve Kistler och är...

Kistler Vineyards remains one of the absolute benchmark producers of great Sonoma Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, sitting right up there with the highest quality examples of these grapes from throughout the world. While the wines come from as wide a range of top terroirs as Sonoma can provide, interestingly nearly all of the Chardonnays are produced from a proprietary selection of Wente clones taken from a Larry Hyde block in the early 1980s. The exception is the Kistler Vineyard, which contains some original Martin Ray Mount Eden clonal material. This can be found in the straight Kistler Vineyard Chardonnay bottling, as opposed to the Cuvee Cathleen, which is mainly Wente selection. All the vineyard-designate Chardonnays are produced in precisely the same manner, meaning the differences between them are almost exclusively down to the differences in terroir.

 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - Robert Parker Wine Advocate