Secret Indulgence Evoluna Chardonnay 2015
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Jeb
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Robert
Parker
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Pairs well with triple creme cheese or Dover sole in lemon sauce.
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Jeb Dunnuck
A beautiful Chardonnay that does everything right, the 2015 Chardonnay Evoluna offers serious amounts of orchard fruits, brioche, honeysuckle and hints of minerality. It's layered, concentrated, and balanced, with beautiful acidity, depth of fruit, and length. It's a seriously good Chardonnay and overdelivers.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Evoluna Sonoma Coast Chardonnay explodes with vibrant pineapple and pink grapefruit notes with an undercurrent of ripe apricots, brioche and ginger plus a waft of honeycomb. Medium to full-bodied, it fills the palate with expressive tropical and stone fruit flavors, featuring a racy backbone and pleasant oiliness to the texture, finishing long.
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Jeb
Dunnuck
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.