This is is a full bodied, smooth, just slightly sweet chardonnay with a fairly ripe complex nose of peach/pineapple...

Notably warm, buttery and creamy, certainly as compared to the Sonoma and Russian River chardonnays. Also herbal...

Fresh but flinty and sulphide-inflected, La Crema's 2018 Monterey chardonnay starts out with gentle wood influence...