Starmont

Cost: $28.15 US
Grape: Chardonnay
Category: White Wine
Location Blackbeard’s Cayman Islands
Country: United States
Region: Carneros, Napa Valley, California
Format: 750 mL
Producer: Starmont Winery & Vineyards
Alcohol: 13.5% Alcohol/Vol.

Classic Carneros Chard at a good price

Description: Bright gold in colour with a medium to medium+ intense nose. This wine features lightly toasted oak, lemon, green apples, caramel, dill, ginger, wakame salad, vanilla and honeysuckle on the nose. Medium+ body with crisp acidity and a fairly long length.

Negatives: None

Interesting Note:

  • Screw top
  • Solar-powered, sustainably farmed and Napa Green Certified
  • To enjoy the full flavours of this wine, don’t over chill it

Drink now or in the next 3 years on its own or pair it with salmon sashimi

Tasted: 10 March 2016

Score: 9/10, Value: 9+/10 Total: 18+/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 4+