Tony Bish Zen Chardonnay 2024

Sam Kim, Wine Orbit writes "Exquisitely elegant and sophisticated with delicate poise and alluring complexity, the wine shows white flesh stone fruit, rockmelon, nougat, and oatmeal nuances on the nose, followed by a brilliantly focused palate exhibiting linear mouthfeel and seamless flow. Offering purity and stunning complexity, this is multi-layered and superbly structured, with a persistent, captivating finish. At its best: 2027 to 2039."

Cameron Douglas MS writes "A wine of absolute purity and finesse. A bouquet that captures the idea of site and soil as well as carefully handled fruit. Scents of stone and clay then a flinty very fine reductive quality followed by white peach and red apple, white flowers and fruit spices. Complex and youthful, layered and intriguing. On the palate a fantastic expression, taut and new, dry and salivating, saline and chalky. Flavours of soil and mineral precede those of pomaceous and citrus then stone fruit. Delicious and focused, youthful and long. A sensational wine."

Candice Chow writes "A single-vineyard expression of Kokako Farms in the Ohiti Valley, fermented and aged in an egg-shaped French oak. A well-structured wine with harmonious oak integration and tension, long-lasting, creamy and enticing."

The winery writes "Complex interwoven aromas of quince, nashi pear and baked orange with hints of cinnamon, vanilla, honeysuckle and white flowers. There is a savoury background aroma of toasted brioche. The palate is textural with beautifully harmony and balance. Flavours of almond, nutty marzipan, and ripe grapefruit with a very fine chalky thread of tannins. This wine is extremely mouth filling, with sublime silky textural qualities and ripe citrus peel aftertaste."