Review: 2023 Bernardus Chardonnay Ingrid’s Vineyard

Central California’s Carmel Valley is home to Bernardus, a long-running winery with a particular focus on chardonnay. Ingrid’s Vineyard is planted directly on Bernardus’s property, growing Dijon clones 76 and 95, the finished product aged in 100% new French oak. Only 1470 bottles were produced from this 2023 vintage.

Notes of coconut and lemon curd are immediate here, with lime leaf building on the nose. A vanilla custard character arrives late, helping to showcase the wine’s rich and creamy body, kept alive thanks to just enough acidity to keep things vibrant. It also tempers a somewhat earthy and pastoral finish, which adds balance to an already complex chardonnay.

A- / $55

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