WTN: Climb Every Mountain

[Jenise]

Last night we wanted a chardonnay to accompany butter poached salmon, and I could not have wished for a better accompaniament than the 2010 Calera Chardonnay Mt. Harlan, 35th Anniversary bottling. Golden mature color, in full secondary development but without oxidation, it offered pleasing notes of meyer lemon, turkish fig and corn on the cob. A hint of blond toffee rounded out the long finish.

[David M. Bueker]

Turkish fig? OK, I am not a fig fan, but how does one differentiate them?

Nice to see a 10 year old (almost) Chardonnay note.

p.s. I fixed your bolding - it was missing a bracket

[Jenise]

Black mission figs have a bolder, sweeter flavor--that which most would associate with fig jams. Turkish figs are milder. My point was that the wine did have fruit, but it was a flavor beyond the usual apple and pear associated with chardonnay.