Cloudsley Twenty Mile Bench Chardonnay 2022

This Chardonnay was made with fruit sourced from the Wismer family’s Foxcroft (85%) and Wingfield (15%) vineyards. It’s wild fermented and is aged in French oak barrels (20% new) for 18 months. It shows ripeness on the nose to go with poached pear, yellow apples, bergamot, wet stones, saline freshness, and toasted spices. It has a creamy texture on the palate and shows rich, savoury stone fruits, lemon curd, flinty minerality and length through a lifted finish. Can cellar to 2027. Score – 92. (Rick VanSickle, winesinniagara.com, Dec. 17, 2024)