Toasted Head Chardonnay 1999
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Toasted Head Chardonnay is 100% Estate Bottled, and it is skillfully crafted from our most succulent grapes, carefully selected from our very finest Dunnigan Hills Chardonnay vineyards. It is 100% Barrel Fermented and sur lie aged in a combination of our best French and American oak barrels where it is gently hand stirred for the first five months of its aging process. It is meticulously cared for with the same tender devotion that a mother gives her newborn while Toasted Head Chardonnays golden flavors develop and meld into a mouthwatering, luxurious maturity.
Toasted Head Chardonnay is rich and complex, showing great harmony and integration of fruit and oak. The ripe tropical fruit character of the wine marries well with the butterscotch, vanilla and slight spiciness that comes from barrel fermentation. It is one of the most popular Chardonnays in America today, gracing the tables of many of the finest homes and restaurants in the country. We are proud to introduce to you a Chardonnay worthy of any millennium, 1999 Toasted Head Chardonnay. -Bob Barker, R.H. Phillips Wine Company
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Where the heck is Yolo County?
Yolo County may not be a major destination for wine lovers, but that's okay by us. Our neighbor to the west, Napa County, gets all the tourists, while Sacramento County, to the east, gets all the politicians (and hot air!). We're in between, in one of California's original 27 counties, which has stayed a rural oasis that is now home to a large community of artists and craftspeople, as well as California's greatest concentration of organic farmers. The name Yolo is from the native Poewin Indian word "yo-loy," meaning "abounding in the rushes," but some locals insist it's an acronym for "You Only Live Once."
Our estate vineyards in Yolo's Dunnigan Hills, a designated American Viticultural Area (AVA) on the eastern side of California's Coast Range Mountains, are perched on rolling hillsides with well-drained gravelly loam soils. It gets warm in the Dunnigan Hills in summer, but cooling breezes from the Sacramento Delta and San Francisco Bay reduce evening temperatures to between 55° and 65° F. This enables our grapes to cool down quickly at night, preserving their fresh flavors and crisp natural acidity.
For over 30 years, the farms around here have supplied northern California's finest restaurants and farmer's markets with a cornucopia of delicious, organically grown fruits, vegetables and nuts. At Toasted Head, we're proud to have added fine wine to the menu.