Williams Selyem, Olivet Lane Chardonnay, Russian River Valley

Williams Selyem · California › Russian River Valley › United States of America

White · Chenin Blanc Chardonnay
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LWIN 1529751
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92 /100
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23
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Taster #7872 · Jul 19, 2025
94/100
Excellent Chardonnay.
2020 vintage
Taster #8069 · Jun 14, 2025
90/100
14.5%. Clear light gold. Shows very pure. On PnP, modest+ nose. Some oak, some butterscotch, vanilla, hint of tropical fruit. After a few minutes, even more butterscotch. Actually Butterfinger. That's it...butterfinger my wife and I decided...minus the chocolate of course. Nicely balanced on the palate, medium+ bodied. Tart acidity, chewy fruit. Tart lingering finish. Very nice. Totally different showing from my note of 9/8/24, which was reductive. This was orange sky fire year, but again my thinking is that this …
2020 vintage
Taster #9884 · Apr 21, 2025
91/100
PnP w/15 mins glass time. Clear, bright med straw color. Rich taste w/ some oak and still decent fruit with a long finish. Med body. Nice. Drink now. $72 winery direct.
2020 vintage
Taster #9687 · Apr 5, 2025
100/100
Simply the best.
2020 vintage
Taster #5538 · Dec 27, 2024
91/100
This is a light yellow colored wine. The flavors are typical for a California chardonnay with lemon custard, fruit salad, and apple with a bit of salinity. The best feature of this wine is its wonderful balance between fruit, acid, and oak. This is an ample bodied wine with a soft consistency. Like all of the Williams Selyem portfolio this is a well made wine in the middle of the road in terms of all their chardonnay bottlings.
2020 vintage
Taster #3354 · Dec 21, 2024
91/100
Very interesting! Tastes very different on day 1 and 2. Day 1 is lemony, apple and balanced, not too oaky, day 2 shows some honeyed character and more minerality.
2020 vintage
Taster #6454 · Nov 20, 2024
88/100
always refreshing. stored on stainless steel
2018 vintage
Taster #4915 · Sep 8, 2024
93/100
Delicious, nice complexity Lemon meringue pie, good finish, melon One of the better single vineyard wines from WS
2020 vintage
Taster #8069 · Sep 8, 2024
87/100
This was a disappointment. Reductive in a way I don’t usually get from WS. This was orange sky harvest year, but I think this was likely in by then in mid sept. Other notes are different than mine, maybe an off bottle. Kind of a viscous reductive caramel. Juicy reductive finish. Stored impeccably since release.
2020 vintage
Taster #5742 · Apr 6, 2024
94/100
For my taste, I prefer this to the Heintz Vineyard. Really tasty stuff.
2020 vintage
Taster #5821 · Nov 23, 2023
Delicious Chardonnay. Richer style with great acididity paired so well with everything from Hamachi Crudo to Lobster bisque, Turkey and all the accompaniments. This is a food wine but held up so well as a stand alone drink as well.
2020 vintage
Taster #3189 · Jan 1, 2023
Vibrant, explosively aromatic, rich but not heavy. Extraordinary.
2020 vintage
Taster #9884 · Nov 13, 2022
92/100
Karen's Friendsgiving.
2018 vintage
Taster #1175 · May 15, 2022
94/100
Light and simple, slightly peachy. Good aroma, well done.
2018 vintage
Taster #3837 · Apr 30, 2022
92/100
Pale golden straw in color. Bright citrus and Meyer lemon on the nose with floral notes mixed in. Picking up some golden delicious apple notes. Moderate acidity and finish.
2020 vintage
Taster #7360 · Dec 1, 2021
95/100
Incredible mouth feel. it starts with a burst of Key Lime and finishes with butterscotch candy. A great Chardonnay!
2018 vintage
Taster #3259 · Mar 26, 2021
88/100
straw yellow in color. crisp aromatics. citrus,apple. slightly viscious on the mouth. finish was medium with a hint of spice on the finish.. solid wine..
2018 vintage
Taster #1175 · Nov 24, 2020
90/100
Extremely smooth and well balanced, this wine exhibits fruit and medium floral notes with medium mineralogy before tapering off to a nice finish. Characteristic of this style, acidity is well controlled and muted far more than with its French cousins and is a good compromise offering between Chardonnay and Sav Blanc fans.
2018 vintage
Taster #4728 · Nov 21, 2020
88/100
More like a Sauvignon Blanc like the other person said.
2018 vintage
Taster #3102 · Sep 24, 2020
90/100
Buy again. Like Savangion Blanc, but without the grassy flavor.
2018 vintage
Taster #3750 · Jul 6, 2020
93/100
very nice, oaky and buttery with a peach hint.
2018 vintage
Taster #6981 · May 26, 2020
95/100
Really great vintage for this wine. Well balanced with a combination of citrus and cream. Not Tart with enough acid to hold to all in balance. Nose shows the citrus- lemon and grapefruit. Palate shows the fresh cream without being overpowering.
2018 vintage
Taster #2861 · May 4, 2020
91/100
Pale straw color. Nice apple bouquet supported by crisp acidity. Long finish. Drink or hold for a couple of years.
2018 vintage
Taster #7776 · Apr 2, 2020
95/100
I decided to try a young one, we got these about two weeks ago. We normally drink them older, and all of the WS Chardonnays are complex and wonderful after two or three years, or more, in the bottle. But we were making Dover sole with a lemon cream sauce tonight, and I wanted to open this. Great decision. Medium golden color. Complex nose, lemon and honey. The lemon on the palate jumped out with the lemon cream sauce. The …
2018 vintage
Taster #9369 · Mar 20, 2020
90/100
Excellent honeysuckle and lemon notes. Full bodied and terrific QPR.
2018 vintage