Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Floral, this crisp white starts out in quiet contemplation, offering an abundance of fresh-squeezed citrus and minerality. It remains light and complex on the palate, teeter-tottering between fruit and acidity, with a solid backbone of structure and girth on the finish.
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Wine Spectator
Perfumed floral aromas join honeydew, honeysuckle, pear and green fig flavors in this rich, full-bodied effort. Shows a touch of pithy grape and grapefruit peel on the finish, graced by a touch of minerality. Drink now through 2020.
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.
Situated in the southeastern corner of Napa Valley in the Vaca range, the vineyards of the Coombsville AVA enjoy a long growing season mitigated by cool, San Pablo Bay fog.