Best White Wine Rated 90+ Points For Every Budget

"This is light gold-colored with a greenish hue and beautiful, fresh tropical fruit flavors of pineapple, pear, honeysuckle and a touch of citrus. I love its vibrancy and beautiful subtleties and nuances. It is another top-notch effort from Pahlmeyer to drink over the next 7-8 years."

"There is a lovely touch of fennel and garrigue that develops after five minutes in the glass. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity, linear and citric with a brisk, edgy finish that should mature nicely in bottle. I feel that this will have more to offer in the future."

"It offers a brilliantly defined, crisp and slightly Burgundian bouquet of white fruits, flowers, flinty minerality, honey and hints of toasted nuts. Ultra-pure, clean and crystalline on the palate, with racy acidity that stays nicely integrated, it has plenty of fruit, a balanced, layered texture and a great finish. "

"Displays white peach, poached pear, caramelized apples and baking spices in a full-bodied, fabulously rich, complex style."

"This offers even more minerality than the Ellen Lane, with notes of wet gravel, white currants, peach, honeysuckle and tangerine oil. It’s a beauty."

"The two 2014 cuvées from the Richard Dinner Vineyard are both full-throttle Chardonnays, with the Cuvée Agustina just bigger, denser, richer and, to my taste, even superior to the 2013 version. Both should drink well for 7-10 years."

"Again my probable favorite. Killer tangerine, orange blossom and honeyed citrus notes are present in this full-bodied, beautifully pure Chardonnay that shows very little evidence of oak, as all of these wines do, even though they’re still in barrel."

"Exhibits more gravelly, wet pebble notes and loads of uplifted aromatics, including peach, pineapple, orange rind and lemon blossom. It is again a complex style of Chardonnay made from a cold microclimate."

"The 2014 Chardonnay Ross Station offers even more minerality than the Ellen Lane, with notes of wet gravel, white currants, peach, honeysuckle and tangerine oil. It’s a beauty."

"This superb, elegant and aromatic effort seemed to jump out of the glass with its perfumed personality. It has a spicy, nutty nose with minty freshness and a sensation of wet stones. The oak is perfectly integrated and it has an elegant profile, a wine built around finesse and acidity. It finished with a chalky, mineral finish, definitively salty. Simply stunning!"

"Among the top 2014 Chardonnays I tasted from among the likes of Peter Michael as well as Marcassin and Aubert. The small crops seem to have produced even more intense wines, but also more structured wines. You can see from my scores this is another great vintage for Luc Morlet."

"Exhibits exceptional minerality, great concentration, tangerine oil, marmalade and citrus blossom. White currants also make an appearance in this super-concentrated wine."