On the road to Chardonnay perfection, the 2012 Chateau Boswell Ritchie is ultra-smooth and opulent, featuring a symphony of ripe tropical fruit flavors balanced by a sense of harmony and class only found in California’s blue chip Chardonnays (e.g. Morlet and Pahlmeyer). This Chardonnay offers notes of nectarine intertwined with vanilla, minerals, lemon oil, and...

Full bodied and rich, this wine opens with abundant layers of peach, orange blossom, citrus and subtle notes of pineapple.

The glass explodes with a bowl full of ripe red cherry and jammy red and black fruit.

Spectacularly energetic, it delivers a well-focused fruit profile that suggest top-tier Burgundy gracefully melded together with ripe tropical fruit including white peach, pear, white flowers and hints of grilled pineapple.

The Durrell vineyard is so distinctive, it would certainly be ranked as a Premier Cru if California had such designations.