Winemaker Notes
Brilliant straw color. Lemon and citrus lined with floral notes and hints of brioche and toast. Bright and crisp with perfectly balanced acidity and minerality, followed by an elegant refreshing finish.
Pairs well with seafood, cream sauces, roasted chicken, white fish and zesty vegetable dishes.
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Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
Light gold color; smooth, elegant, and restrained, with notes of citrus, pear, and toast. From Lisa Vanderpump and family, it’s a bonus for Bravo watchers.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Vanderpump Wines Chardonnay offers a generous and rewarding experience. TASTING NOTES: This wine brings savory spices, ripe fruit, and creamy oak to the table. Pair it with grilled chicken thighs in a white wine reduction sauce with aromatic spices. (Tasted: May 25, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
A vast appellation covering Sonoma County’s Pacific coastline, the Sonoma Coast AVA runs all the way from the Mendocino County border, south to the San Pablo Bay. The region can actually be divided into two sections—the actual coastal vineyards, marked by marine soils, cool temperatures and saline ocean breezes—and the warmer, drier vineyards further inland, which are still heavily influenced by the Pacific but not quite with same intensity.
Contained within the appellation are the much smaller Fort Ross-Seaview and Petaluma Gap AVAs.
The Sonoma Coast is highly regarded for elegant Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and, increasingly, cool-climate Syrah. The wines have high acidity, moderate alcohol, firm tannin, and balanced ripeness.