Kistler Hudson Vineyard Chardonnay 2022
210.78₣ (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Chardonnay Hudson Vineyard is delicate and detailed. 'Hudson can be big and powerful,' winemaker Jason Kesner says. 'This is a very different expression.' It has a singular perfume of panna cotta, pear blossom, white pepper and cashew. The light-bodied palate is soft and silky with floral, spicy flavors. Its taut acidity gives it a shimmery feel, and it has a long, pure finish.
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Alcohol
14.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 10ºC and 12ºC
Winemaking
Fermented and aged for 11 months in French oak barrels (35% new). Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Description
Some wineries are born of a romantic intuition; Kistler was born of an almost obstinate conviction: terroir wines could also be made in California, with old-world reverence and without make-up. From the beginning they declared themselves "farmers first", and that phrase is not a slogan: their approach to Chardonnay is to reduce the winemaker's footprint until the vineyard speaks with its own voice. In the 1980s they took a bold (and very rare in the new world) decision to plant a single heritage clone for all their Chardonnay, seeking genetic consistency to read the differences in soil and climate clearly, year after year.
Kistler Hudson Vineyard is one of those places where the map turns to salt. In the southwest corner of Napa County, in the Los Carneros, the Pacific Ocean pours in like a cold, marine breath; there, in the famous Block E that Kistler has been bottling since 1994, a rare mix of volcanic soils and marine sediments emerges. The result is a California Chardonnay with an Atlantic pulse and Californian body: depth, elegance and a saline signature that makes it recognisable blind.
Winemaking
Kistler Hudson Vineyard Chardonnay is harvested at night, with the grapes cool and the acidity intact. In the cellar, the Chardonnay ferments in barrel in the underground cellar, with indigenous yeasts and an unhurried pace. The wood is not an accessory: they work with French oak and a careful selection to sustain the wine without over-perfuming it. After fermentation, the wine is aged for 11 months in barrels (usually with some new wood) before bottling. Refining on the lees provides volume and a silky texture, seeking tension and definition before bottling.
Taste
In Kistler Hudson Vineyard Chardonnay, the nose enters serious and marine: fine iodine, salinity and a cool Carneros breeze that clears the glass. Then the fruit opens up, but with discipline: candied lemon, golden apple, ripe pear, a hint of almond and that hinted beeswax that gives a sense of understated luxury. The palate is broad and creamy, yes, but not soft: the acidity tightens everything up like a cable, stretching the wine into a long, precise line. There's hazelnut butter and very fine sweet spice, but the finish doesn't veer towards the gourmand: wet stone, citrus and a lingering salinity that makes you salivate and repeat.
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