For the first time, WineHeist is offering a white wine! It’s not that we have anything against whites, it’s just that until now we hadn’t found anything that we were exited enough about to offer to our customers. That all changed when we tasted the 2007 Landmark Damaris Reserve Chardonnay. This one delivered on every level, and we knew we needed to secure as much as we could.
The 2007 Damaris Reserve Chardonnay is medium gold in color. It’s nose offers lime, citrus, apple and an intense mineral and earth component that you rarely find in California Chardonnay. This is so striking that in a blind tasting you might first think you had been given white Burgundy. The palate brings you back to California, however, with its rich apple and citrus flavors, with only a hint of the earthiness from the nose. While this does have some heft to it, it is not one of those buttery, over the top California chards; it has great acidity, which gives it lovely precision and focus. This combination of intense fruit and great acid results in a wine of stunning depth, pulling you in for sip after sip, and remaining on the palate for minutes. Perfect for intensely flavored goat cheese or any shellfish.
89% Sangiacomo Vineyard, Carneros
11% Lorenzo Vineyard, Russian River Valley
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