Wine Shop in Portland Maine“Bright yellow. Musky peach, pear and apple fruit aromas and flavors are complicated by flowers and herbs. Concentration and precise, with a dusty impression of extract and very good length. Quite strong for this no-malo chardonnay. Bo Barrett is now vinifying with a higher percentage of whole clusters and getting less bitterness as a result. ‘So now we don’t need as much new oak to compensate,’ he noted, adding that 2007 was an outstanding vintage for chardonnay as there was no heat stress.”

91 points ~ Wine Spectator