Peter Michael La Carriere Chardonnay 2012

Professional Ratings

• 97 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2012 Chardonnay La Carriere gave the Morlets everything they wanted – great quality and abundant quantity. There are over 2,500 cases of this magnificent wine that flirts with perfection. The harvest occurred a month earlier than it did in 2011, and the result is a wine with terrific acidity and freshness, and amazing delineation for its full-bodied, powerful, opulent, corpulent style. There are lots of orange blossom, poached pear, white peach and pineapple notes in this big, rich, definitive Chardonnay that should drink well for a decade. Range 96-98.
• 94 Wine Spectator
  Combines amazing richness and sharply defined fruit in a sleek, tapered style that's graceful and elegant, unfolding to offer honey-laced green apple, pear, peach and fig notes shaded by smoky, toasty oak and ending with a long, sustained finish. Drink now through 2020.
• 93 James Suckling
  This is solid as a rock with a lovely, dense texture and gorgeous apple, lemon cream and vanilla. Full body with a balance of acidity and ripe fruit. Mineral. Slate. So intense. Drink or hold.