2014 Chardonnay Rita's Crown

This is an attractive set of wines from Sandhi, the project headed by Rajat Parr and Sashi Moorman. The 2014s are solid across the board, but they also lack the excitement of the best wines this talented duo has made in the past. In my view, either yields are too high or the fruit is being picked too early, because the definition of site - the single most important attribute for a vineyard-designate wine - is not fully realized in most of these wines. With the exception of the Bentrock, which is a case unto itself (as explained in the review), these wines are certainly good or even better than good. But is that enough for sites of this pedigree? I don't think it is.