92+ The 2022 Chardonnay from the Drouhin family’s Roserock estate is a superb wine in the making, coming in at 14.1 percent octane in this roller-coaster vintage that began with unprecedented frost and then a fine...
92+ The 2022 Chardonnay from the Drouhin family’s Roserock estate is a superb wine in the making, coming in at 14.1 percent octane in this roller-coaster vintage that began with unprecedented frost and then a fine, unseasonably warm fin de saison to properly let the bunches catch up and ripen to perfection. The wine is fermented half in barrel and half in tank and went through full malo. The bouquet is pure and precise, wafting from the glass in a mix of golden delicious apple, pear, fresh almond, a beautifully complex base of soil tones, white lilies and a gentle framing of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is zesty, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a superb core of fruit, fine soil inflection and grip, lovely balance and a long, pure and vibrant finish. This is already very tasty, but more complexity will emerge with bottle age. Fine juice.