
Rhys Alesia Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay
- White
- United States
- Santa Cruz Mountains
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 3
- Community notes
- 50
- Merchant offers
- 9
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002019 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 78/ 10050 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £30per 75 cl2019 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 24 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Chardonnay.
- Body4.3 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness2.3 / 5
- DrySweet
- Tree fruit · pear, apple, apricot, stone fruit, baked apple
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, butterscotch, coconut
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime
- Tropical fruit · tropical, pineapple, mango, kiwi, lychee
- Earth · stone, honey, minerals, saline
- Yeast and lees · banana, bread yeast, cream, yeast
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 201992critic£30 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
- 201775drinkersunit not stated
- 201694criticunit not stated
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2016
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2019
- £30 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £30 | 91.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022 |
Where to go next
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