Stag's Leap Wine Cellars KARIA Chardonnay, Napa Valley (2023) Vintage:2023 enticing bouquet and elegant maturity

enticing bouquet and elegant maturity – with this mini bottle

without an accent - feeling the term "non-vintage brut" didn't do justice to a Champagne of such subtlety

elegant nose of brioche

In the glass it's classic Ott: barely-there pink

It drinks beautifully now but has the structure to keep for years

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars KARIA Chardonnay, Napa Valley (2023) Vintage:2023 enticing bouquet and elegant maturityStag's Leap Wine Cellars is one of Napa's most famous names the estate whose red beat the best of Bordeaux at the 1976 Paris tasting. KARIA is their Chardonnay, and the name comes from a Greek word meaning "graceful." The fruit comes from cooler vineyards in the southern part of the valley, near the bay, where morning and evening breezes keep the grapes fresh. Part of the wine is fermented and aged in French oak barrels and left to rest on its lees,