This estate also makes a brilliant Viognier, and their 2019 Viognier delivers the goods. Condrieu-like notes of honeyed pineapple, peach, apricot, flowers, and white flowers give way to a beautifully textured, medium to full-bodied, rich yet impeccably balanced white that's going to shine on the dinner table. It will easily pass undetected in a lineup of top Condrieu.

The 2019 Viognier is a little youthfully mute to begin, soon unfurling to offer glimpses at fresh Bosc pears, ripe yellow apples and honey-drizzled white peaches with hints of lemongrass and allspice. The medium to full-bodied palate delivers a decadently creamy texture with a seamless backbone of freshness lifting all the spiced apples and pears flavors to a long finish.

The 2019 Viognier is fabulous. In fact, it might be the best white at Pride. Varietal aromas and flavors are everywhere in this wonderfully expressive, generous Viognier. The 2019 is a rich wine with plenty of Viognier viscosity, but the flavors remain bright, making for a wine that balances everything Viognier has to offer in grand style. Tangerine oil, jasmine, ginger and passion fruit linger. This is such a pretty and alluring white.

Year in and year out, Pride’s Viogniers are among our favorites, and the 2019 edition again proves its maker’s mettle with the grape. It has all of the expected richness and sheer fruity depth of top-flight Viognier, and, if that would be enough to win it sustained applause, it scores higher marks yet for its altogether lovely balance and energy. It is a Viognier that is certain to age brilliantly, and, as sure as we are that it will dazzle after a halfdozen years have passed, it is so deliciously involving right now that leaving it untouched in the cellar for that long will take a good deal of self-discipline. We would feel no guilt, only glee, in pulling its cork and pouring it tonight.