Mount Eden Chardonnay Estate 2021 FRFLSH and Domaine Danjean-Berthoux is one

and Domaine Danjean-Berthoux is one of the appellation's quiet stars — a family estate working east- and south-facing limestone hillsides with real precision

more brooding in personality

Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir vinified as red wine

and very gently

They rarely if ever have to make cluster selections here

Mount Eden Chardonnay Estate 2021 FRFLSH and Domaine Danjean-Berthoux is oneMount Eden Estate Chardonnay has a claim few wines in California can match: an unbroken lineage going back to the late 1940s, when Martin Ray propagated cuttings from Paul Masson's original Burgundian selection at 2,000 feet in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The vines are planted in infertile Franciscan shale above the fog line, yielding small crops of intensely structured fruit. This is one of California's longest lived white wines a Chardonnay that