Peter Michael 2013 Chard Belle Cote   

2013 Peter Michael Winery Chardonnay Belle Cote Knights Valley

Wine Advocate
99 Points
The 2013 Chardonnay Belle Côte, which I had tentatively rated 95 to 97, has turned out to be flirting with perfection. Production was nearly 1,000 cases less than the 2014! Displaying an almost stony liqueur of rocks, lemon butter, and white peach, this is a full-bodied, intense wine with loads of tangerine oil, pineapple jam and that wet stone minerality that runs through it. This extremely massive, rich, super-concentrated wine blew me away in my tasting at the winery. Drink it over the next decade. Drink Date 2015 - 2025. Robert M. Parker, Jr. 30th Dec 2015