Here's a clean and relatively fresh Lodi chardonnay, still fleshy and ripe in the California style, but neither...

Here's a typically ripe, soft almost sweet-edged California chardonnay with rich, custardy, banana cream pie nose...

Quite the oaked up front and unrelentingly so chardonnay though not without a sense of smoulder in a Pouilly-Fuisée...