Winemaker Notes
Pair with seared scallops and lemon butter, roasted chicken with herbs, wild mushroom risotto, or a simple goat cheese and arugula salad. For something cozy, try it with creamy pasta primavera or grilled halibut topped with fresh salsa verde.
Blend: 100% Chardonnay
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Soft and charming aromas of Meyer lemon, green pear, chalky minerality, and spice mélange swirl on the nose of this Chardonnay. The palate brings a pop of fresh acidity, with flavors of apple skin, nectarine, pineapple sage, and citrus blossoms through the meandering finish.
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.