Ponzi’s 2018 Reserve Chardonnay shows the quality wine that this producer is known for. Bright tropical fruit is balanced with the careful blend of new and neutral French oak and six months of lees aging. This highly complex wine shows notes of toasted pineapple, vanilla shortbread, melon, juicy ripe red apple, crème fraîche, white lily, and orange blossom. 2018 was an excellent year for Ponzi in the vineyard and excellent work in the winery clearly shepherded this wine to excellence.
Ponzi Vineyards, Willamette Valley (Oregon) Chardonnay 2018
By Vince Simmon