Winemaker Notes
Flinty and clean, with notes of Asian pear and Meyer lemon blossom. Juicy fruit notes of tangerine and vanilla on the palate. Perfect with shrimp, fresh scallops, or tender flatfish like sole or sanddabs. Versatile enough to be your everyday Chardonnay.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2021 Fossil Edna Valley Chardonnay is authentic and energetic on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of aromatic herbs, savory spices, dried earthiness, and tart apples. Pair it with jumbo prawns and linguine in a light cream sauce. (Tasted: March 15, 2023, San Francisco, CA)
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.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.