2007 CHARDONNAY CLOS PEPE
Santa Rita Hills

Another stunning chardonnay from Clos Pepe! We loved our 2006 version of this wine, but it still needs five years before it will be drinking at its best. This 2007 wine, by contrast, is already delicious today. The aroma is filled with lemon and toast, and there is an alluring earthiness to it as well. The flavors are intense and the wine finishes with a real gripping minerality that draws you in. While clearly holding back all it can show at this point, this wine possesses a beguiling easiness that charms. I think this wine is lovely in a Burgundian kind of way.