Winemaker Notes
With fresh aromas of guava and apricot, Naked Chardonnay is summer in a glass. Juicy flavors of Pink Lady apple and white peach, along with bright acidity and a crisp finish will have you coming back for more and more.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
There’s a vibrant sense of crisp Asian pear flesh, citrus blossom and light mint on the nose of this very affordable bottling. The palate is tightly wound with melon rind, lime pith, pear flesh and a slight hint of guava.
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Tasting Panel
This white was fermented mostly in stainless steel, with a small portion lightly sheathed in toasted French oak for malolactic treatment. Disrobing with a perfume of key lime and toasted marshmallow, it leaves a clean, leesy feeling on the palate. Rich caramel apple is calmed by minerality that surfaces mid-palate, joined by succulent notes of banana and guava.
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.
The largest and perhaps most varied of California’s wine-growing regions, the Central Coast produces a good majority of the state's wine. This vast California wine district stretches from San Francisco all the way to Santa Barbara along the coast, and reaches inland nearly all the way to the Central Valley.
Encompassing an extremely diverse array of climates, soil types and wine styles, it contains many smaller sub-AVAs, including San Francisco Bay, Monterey, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Paso Robles, Edna Valley, Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Maria Valley.
While the Central Coast California wine region could probably support almost any major grape varietiy, it is famous for a few Central Coast reds and whites. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel are among the major ones. The Central Coast is home to many of the state's small, artisanal wineries crafting unique, high-quality wines, as well as larger producers also making exceptional wines.