93 POINTS - Wine Enthusiast: This is a very dense, layered wine, with many intricate corners to explore. The winemaker has put on lots of lees and quite a bit of new oak, which of course adds creamy, smoky complexities. Fortunately, the underlying wine can handle it. Pure Santa Lucia Chardonnay, it's intricate in tangerines, limes, pineapples, honeysuckle and Asian spices, with a flinty minerality. Acidity is quite high.
Double L is Morgan Winery's
organically farmed vineyard
The wine shows a medium depth color. On the nose, the wine shows anise, cassis, fresh mint, with hints of nuts and cola. The palate impressions include black cherry, vanilla, toasty oak, cranberry, fresh herbs, leather. The wine shows breadth across the palate, with acidity and structure that suggest the wine will age well.