2013 Peter Michael, Point Rouge, Chardonnay, Sonoma County, Bottle (750ml)
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99RP
Critic key
RP = Robert Parker
- Rating
- RP99
- Producer
- Peter Michael
- Vintage
- 2013
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Knights Valley
- Country
- United States
- Volume
- 750mL
- Type
- Still
- Color
- White
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Product Description
RP99 "The 2013 Chardonnay Point Rouge offers up plenty of honeysuckle, orange marmalade, pineapple and baked brioche notes, subtle oak, and a wonderfully multi-dimensional, prodigious mouthfeel and length. This super-intense Chardonnay is exquisite and a tour de force in winemaking. Drink it over the next decade or more." RP Dec 2015
There's nothing that this winery does that is not admirable. Consider that they work with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, they produce world-class wines from all of these varietals, and they do it from Knight's Valley and the Sonoma Coast. Of course, they have had some fabulous winemakers pass through, including the likes of Helen Turley and Mark Aubert, Luc Morlet and now his brother, Nicolas Morlet. Nevertheless, much of the credit has to go to Sir Peter Michael, the owner, who gives these people carte blanche, and expects their very best. As I mentioned last year, the Chardonnay crop in 2013 was wickedly small due to wind damage. 2014, even though it was a hot drought year, was far larger in quantity, actually bringing production levels back to normal (although those levels are low in all of the Peter Michael vineyards). The 2014 Chardonnays at Peter Michael were some of the great highlights of my trip, matching their fabulous 2013s by and large, and coming very close to their dramatic, absolutely remarkable 2012s.
There's nothing that this winery does that is not admirable. Consider that they work with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, they produce world-class wines from all of these varietals, and they do it from Knight's Valley and the Sonoma Coast. Of course, they have had some fabulous winemakers pass through, including the likes of Helen Turley and Mark Aubert, Luc Morlet and now his brother, Nicolas Morlet. Nevertheless, much of the credit has to go to Sir Peter Michael, the owner, who gives these people carte blanche, and expects their very best. As I mentioned last year, the Chardonnay crop in 2013 was wickedly small due to wind damage. 2014, even though it was a hot drought year, was far larger in quantity, actually bringing production levels back to normal (although those levels are low in all of the Peter Michael vineyards). The 2014 Chardonnays at Peter Michael were some of the great highlights of my trip, matching their fabulous 2013s by and large, and coming very close to their dramatic, absolutely remarkable 2012s.