Top 100 Wines: Other whites
sfchronicle.com
On that, you’ll notice a cluster of Chenin-based wines from older vineyards that survived its years in the cold, notably Santa Barbara’s Jurassic Park planting. [...] when vines are given time to mature, and grown with intent on interesting soils, the wines can astonish. Riesling, too, keeps finding new partisans — not only in Oregon, whose best examples have made a splash in the past couple of years, but in California also, where some new arrivals are continuing a proud tradition that dates…