| Rating | 94 |
| Style | White |
| Variety | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Appellation |
Sonoma Coast Sonoma County North Coast California USA |
| ABV | 12.5% |
| Price | $65.00 |
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| Reviewed By | |
| Reviewed | 2025-05-06 |
Perfect For
Dinner Parties, Holiday Meals, Wine And Cheese Night
Drink If You Like
Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc , Picpoul
Pax Wines Rhyolite Chardonnay 2022 Review
This wine is so attached to the land it comes from that the winery named it after the soil the roots live in. Rhyolite is a volcanic rock, and vines thrive here in the high elevation, craggy earth on the breezy Sonoma Coast. Sense of place? Terroir? Pax is like, hold my stemware. This wine has a savory nose with sliced pear aromas mingling with sizzling cooking herbs. The mouthfeel is intensely saline while simultaneously deep and grippy. This wine engages the palate and doesn't let go. As they say in Burgundy, the wine is not necessarily Chardonnay, but a reflection of the earth in which it grows. Yep, get that all day in this wine.
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