2025 Chardonnay N, Michael Andres

"Aged mostly in tonneaux and partly in stück vat, the 2024 Chardonnay –N– offers a fine, fresh and aromatic bouquet of ripe and lush yellow fruits intertwined with savory as well as saline notes of crushed stones. Based on the fruit of 32-year-old vines (massal selections from Burgundy) on loess and clay soils with limestone in the subsoil (with a pH of 8), this is a generous, lush and balanced Chardonnay with pleasingly intense and juicy fruit yet also savory grip and salinity as counterpoint. This is an extraordinary Pfalz Chardonnay that, at this price point (20 euros ex-cellar), belongs among the finest and most stimulating ones. 12% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in October 2025." (Stephan Reinhardt in www.robertparker.com)