2023 Samuel Louis Smith Chardonnay Les Granitiers RATING DC 99 with fruit up front and

with fruit up front and through the mid-palate

It aged for up to 26 months in American oak barrels

nearly-2-mile-long hill

It shows all the power and the open quality of the vintage

2023 Samuel Louis Smith Chardonnay Les Granitiers RATING DC 99 with fruit up front and96 Points Jeb Dunnuck: The 2023 Chardonnay Les Granitiers is grown in granitic soils, as the name suggests, primarily those found in the high elevation vineyards of Escolle (58%), Coastview (37%), and Pelio (5%), which all ripen at different times. As a result, the juice is fermented separately from each site in stainless steel and later aged in neutral barrels for 9 10 months. Smith picks the grapes relatively lean but not lacking in flavor,