Rombauer Carneros Chardonnay 2024 NO20231115 and enveloping the wine’s youthful

and enveloping the wine’s youthful structure

with plenty of herbs and yellow fruit

and a light dusting of tannin

and it shows in this pure expression of Cabernet Franc from 30-year-old vines

Rombauer Carneros Chardonnay 2024 NO20231115 and enveloping the wine’s youthfulFew California wines inspire louder loyalty or more eye rolling than Rombauer Chardonnay. Ignore both camps and take the wine on its own terms: this is unapologetically rich Carneros Chardonnay, and it is very good at being exactly that. Full malolactic fermentation and lees stirring every week or so build the creamy texture, and nine months in a mix of American and French oak rounds off the edges. Carneros fruit, cooled by fog rolling in off San