Winemaker Notes
Jasmine essence, lemon curd, and savory elements with an elegant, full mid-palate leads to a textured and focused finish.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Chardonnay Haynes Vineyard comes from the Coombsville appellation in the southern part of Napa Valley. Exotic lemon and tropical fruits, honeyed flowers, and baking spices all define the nose of this pure, medium-bodied, soft, forward, mid-weight Chardonnay. It should be enjoyed over the coming 3-4 years. It doesn’t match the 2017 and 2018, but it’s clearly an outstanding Chardonnay.
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.