(2022) A single vineyard wine, planted in 1999 on gravels, with a mix of Chardonnay clones. Fermented with indigenous yeasts in French oak barriques (40% new), 60% went through malolactic and the wine stayed in barrel for 11 months. Most attractive, with the oak on the mint and butterscotch, rather than toasty, spectrum. Buttery with succulent stone fruits. On the palate equally poised and sophisticated, such lovely clarity here, thanks to the knife-edge acid line, but also a crystalline sense of purity to the fruit, the oak again just adding a cashew and almond finesse rather than anything too aggressive.