Kelley Fox Durant Vineyard Chardonnay 2019

Rene Langdahl on vintage 2018: Kelley Fox's Chardonnay Durant Vineyard Lark Block 2018 (96) from the Dundee Hills AVA is the house's most shocking wine right now, though (and they're pretty much already sold out by the time you read these lines). The list of impressions could fill three lines; I settle for oyster juice, lemon verbena puree and saffron in a good broth for risotto. More metaphorically I could write; a cathedral, aspiring to the sky and at the same time solidly grounded, a cantata, a violin virtuoso's melancholic yet cheerful melody, animating... drink me, a glass, two glasses... and another. I have only experienced this kind of thing with German Riesling and it is surely only the fault of my limitations.