Country: US / Highland Vineyard
Variety: Chardonnay California
Winery: Joullian / Santa Lucia Highlands
Bountiful juiciness shows on the nose of this bottling, with honeysuckle, salted apples and scratched tangerine-skin aromas. Ripe Anjou pear, sliced pineapple and vanilla bean pop on the palate that leans tropical but gets welcome restraint from orange-peel bitterness.