Pellet Estate Chardonnay 2013 Size:750ml and baked apple

and baked apple

Touriga Francesa and Tinta Barroca predominate among the traditional grape varieties of the Demarcated Region of the Douro Valley

while the lemons themselves are cultivated partly in gardens owned by the company and partly by external growers

then toffee and vanilla

Then more like con-fusion as that smoke on the nose turns into warming

Pellet Estate Chardonnay 2013 Size:750ml and baked appleA heady mixture of lemon custard and baked pear marks the entry to this full bodied, deliciously decadent wine, from a high elevation site above the Petaluma Gap. Honeyed aromas maintain themselves in the glass, accented in floral honeysuckle and ginger. Lovely and generous, it softens as it goes. It exemplifies the power, the symbiosis with the pervasive use of oak, and the winemakers craft in its explosive fruit, tacky phenolic screeds on the palate