Winemaker Notes
This wine is rich and round, opening with aromas of apricot, mango, Meyer lemon, vanilla, and toasted marshmallow. The palate shows incredible depth with a full mouthfeel and layers of flavor. Peach cobbler, citrus, orange blossom, and butterscotch finish with lingering notes of toasted hazelnut.
Blend: 100% Chardonnay
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
Blessed with a bouncy mouthfeel, this sunshine-driven white glides along notes of lemon chiffon and salted pineapple. Acidity reaches the sky, unleashing butterscotch and peach while reining in their richness
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Wine & Spirits
Natalie West made this brisk 2021 chardonnay. While most of the lots went through malolactic conversion, providing a smooth and creamy texture, and 25 percent of it aged in new French oak barrels, providing edges of spice, the wine sustains its freshness as it opens up from cellar temperature
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Wine Enthusiast
Ultrasmooth and creamy, this wine offers abundant vanilla, poached pear and light buttery flavors, but the mouth-filling and palate-clinging texture sets it apart. This is just the “regular” bottling in the winery's lineup.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2021 Ferrari-Carano Chardonnay is complex and slightly elevated on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of scented tree bark, ripe fruit, and dried leaves. Pair it with steamed Dungeness crab and garden vegetables. (Tasted: April 5, 2023, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
Aromas of lemon curd, flint and crushed stones. Medium-bodied with bright acidity and a slightly nutty character. Flint and rounded citrus carry through onto the palate with a soft 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.
Home to a diverse array of smaller AVAs with varied microclimates and soil types, Sonoma County has something for every wine lover. Physically twice as large as Napa Valley, the region only produces about half the amount of wine but boasts both tremendous quality and variety. With its laid-back atmosphere and down-to-earth attitude, the wineries of Sonoma are appreciated by wine tourists for their friendliness and approachability. The entire county intends to become a 100% sustainable winegrowing region by 2019.
Sonoma County wines are produced with carefully selected grape varieties to reflect the best attributes of their sites—Dry Creek Valley’s consistent sunshine is ideal for Zinfandel, while the warm Alexander Valley is responsible for rich, voluptuous red wines like Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are important throughout the county, most notably in the cooler AVAs of Russian River, Sonoma Coast and Carneros. Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot and Syrah have also found a firm footing here.