Complex and attractive nose of grilled lemons, dried pineapples, ash, toasted rosemary, flint and salted butter. So much flavor and intensity here, yet elegant and agile and only medium-bodied, with bright acidity. Fantastic salty undertones. Drink or hold.

Evening Land's tête de cuvée, this deeply reverberating Chardonnay is sourced from just fourteen vine rows grown on volcanic soils at the heart of the Seven Springs Vineyard’s eastern slope. While powerful in structure, it's a svelte, cutting wine with pure, concentrated lime and grapefruit flavours framed in steel and a nervy, quivering backbone of acidity.

Today, the 2021 Chardonnay Summum is quite restrained and backward, slowly evolving with hints of young peach, lemon sorbet, stone dust and rosemary. It sweeps across the palate with soft textures, coming across as elegant and refined as saline minerals add a more tactile feel and crisp orchard fruits cascade throughout. Flinty and incredibly long, the 2021 takes a turn toward the savory spectrum, leaving a spicy sensation alongside a crystalline structure that tempts the imagination. Still just a baby, the 2021 is extremely exciting to taste. -- Eric Guido

The beauty that is Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay is on full display here. Lemon butter and toasted filbert aromas are joined by a wisp of Genmaicha green tea. Peaches with a touch of cinnamon spice cruise a crisp texture guided by bright acidity. Toasted filberts reappear on the long finish. — Michael Alberty

The 2021 Chardonnay Summum takes some time to shake off its matchstick character before revealing warm white peaches, pie crust and spicy accents. The medium-bodied palate explodes with honeyed, nutty flavors. Its mouth-coating texture is refreshed by vibrant acidity, and it has a very long finish. It will age gracefully in bottle over the next 10-15 years. - Erin Brooks

Precise and elegantly dynamic, this white unfurls slowly, offering expressive green apple and Meyer lemon flavors, with stony minerality and spicy lees accents that build detail on the lingering finish. Drink now through 2027. – TF