Sunday, August 3, 2008

2006 The Hess Collection Chardonnay Late Harvest Su'Skol

Excellent dessert wine with elegance and finesse from Napa for its price. Apricot, peaches, honey, orange skin and citric notes. The name of the vineyard SuSkol comes from the original indigenous name of the land. This late harvest is concentrated but not over the top and it claims on the bottle there was botrytis was present as the weather was particularly bad that year affecting their normal Chardonney from this vineyard. The best "late harvest" I have had and very Sauternes like.

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3 comments:

Latour said...

Thank you May! Excellent dessert wine but hard to locate another one :(

thilia said...

love love love this wine. will see if my sis can order me a few more bottles, till then we'll have to do with the lingering taste of nectar in our mouths!

DEREK SZETO said...

Thank you May. We will search high and low for another one. Nice drinking with you again! Lets do it more often.