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.

91 POINTS - Connoisseur's Guide - Differing only slightly from Morgan's "Hat Trick" bottling from the same vineyard due to its very firm structure, this toasty, oak infused wine impresses as being fairly tight and tensile just now. Nonetheless, it conveys a good sense of stuffing and already hints at complexity to come, and, while it may be a bit backward at the moment, it promises to unfold over the next two or three years and, like Morgan's Hat Trick, deserves a quiet place in the cellar.