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The wines we carry at Picnics Fine Foods are selected only after being tasted and evaluated for the level of pleasure they will bring to our customers.  Please feel free to contact us with any questions or special orders.

$70.00

Peirson Meyer

Chardonnay Sonoma County 2005

A joint project of Robbie Meyers and Alain Peirson.  Unlike the L’Angevin vineyard designated wines made by Peirson and Meyers, this Chardonnay is a selection of the individual barrels that make up the Heintz, Laughlin and Russian River bottling.  There is great Burgundian style minerality alongside a nose full of pure California fruit, a viscous texture in the mouth and a long balanced finish.  The wine was barrel fermented with 100% malolactic fermentation.  It was aged 16 months in barrel on its lees and bottled unfined and unfiltered.  One note, after an hour or so to open up, the nose shows a heady aroma of butter popcorn like a Batard-Montrachet, beautiful!

Robert Parker 94: “…this wines has the same richness and complexity as the Heintz(L’Angevin) but seems to have even better integration of all its component parts, cutting a broad swath across the palate.  Should drink well for 3-4 years.”