Reviews for Mount Eden Estate Chardonnay 2002
92 points Robert Parker Jr's The Wine Advocate - August 2006
Issue #166
Buttery with an evolved light gold color, the 2002 Estate Chardonnay is more typically Californian, offering big, rich, full-bodied flavors, good acidity and a judicious touch of toasty oak.
90 points Wine Spectator - November 2005
This wine offers a pleasant earthy component to the rich, tightly focused beam of apricot, fig and melon flavors. It gains complexity and depth on a cleansing finish, returning to its subtle, elegant flavors. Drink now through 2009. – J.L.
90 points Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar - July/August 2005
Medium straw-yellow. Smoked nuts, minerals and spices on the nose. Rich, leesy and thick for this bottling, with highly concentrated, complex flavors of peach pit, poached pear, tangerine
Food & Wine Magazine - April 2006
The Buyer’s Guide to 75 of the Best Wines
High up in the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the Silicon Valley, Jeffrey Patterson produces some of California’s most authentically “Burgundian” Chardonnays. This wine is lively and intensely flavored yet wondrously delicate.