Kistler Chardonnay Hudson Vineyard 2020
White
Los Carneros, United States
6.7
WineSaint
Crisp citrus and white flowers open cleanly, but the palate reveals that hollow core typical of 2020's struggles. Hudson's clay-loam soils still impart their characteristic mineral backbone, though the wine feels compressed where it should expand. The finish shows promise. There's underlying structure here that may fill out with another year or two.
citruswhite flowersmineralcompressed fruit
Label
Kistler
→Kistler is one of California's benchmark Chardonnay producers, farming a network of distinct Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast sites and bottling them separately to map differences in soil, exposure, and microclimate.