Aubert Larry Hyde Vineyard Chardonnay
100 points Lisa Perrotti-Brown (The Wine Independent): ``The 2023 Chardonnay Larry Hyde & Sons rockets from the glass with super-intense notes of lime blossoms, fresh yellow apples, orange peel, and chalk dust, plus hints of struck flint and grapefruit oil.
It's made with grapes from a Corton-Charlemagne clone. The slight haze reflects a commitment to minimal intervention winemaking. Some reviewers describe the wine as having aromas of honeyed citrus, complex spice notes, ginger, melon, and pear, with a medium to full body, plumpness, generosity, expansiveness, and a tightening finish, while others note sophisticated minerality with flavors of sweet bosc pear, crystallized ginger, chrysanthemum, narcissus, orange blossom, orchard fruits, lemongrass, and flinty minerality, promising aging potential.