2014 Williams Selyem Chardonnay Heintz Vineyard
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The 2014 Chardonnay Heintz Vineyard is the richest and most overt of these Chardonnays from Williams Selyem. Then again, Heintz is a site that naturally yields oily, textured Chardonnays, which is exactly what readers will find here. Scents of orange blossom, butter, spice, candied lemon peel, apricot jam and French oak flesh out on the sweet, enveloping finish. The 2014 will be even better in a few years, once the elements have had time to fully meld together.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
About the producer
Williams Selyem is an iconic Russian River Valley winery best known for its Pinot Noir. Producing restrained yet classically Californian expressions of the heartbreak grape (as well as a host of other wines), the property has gone from pioneer to one of the region’s standard-bearers.