title: Loring Wine Company 2012 Rosella's Vineyard Chardonnay (Santa Lucia Highlands)
description: A wonderful minerality, like a lick of cold granite, grounds and complicates this Chardonnay. Without that stoniness, it would be just another tropical fruit and oaky Chard, good and dry and tart, but mainstream. Yet that taste of terroir lifts it above the ordinary. Don't drink it too cold, and decant it if you can for an hour or two.
variety: Chardonnay
designation: Rosella's Vineyard