Winemaker Notes
A vibrant citrus-led nose delves into nuanced flavors of baked apple, toasted oak, and brioche on the full-bodied palate. The rich mouthfeel is harmonized by a lasting thread of bright acidity that lifts and maintains freshness on the long finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Frank Family Vineyards Chardonnay offers excellent richness from start to finish. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers attractive aromas and flavors of ripe fruit and savory oak. Enjoy it with shellfish in cream sauces. (Tasted: December 16, 2021, Santa Rosa, CA)
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Jeb Dunnuck
Starting with the three whites, the 2019 Chardonnay comes all from Los Carneros and offers a classic, juicy, medium-bodied style as well as pretty notes of melon, white peach, and honeyed flowers. Beautifully balanced, with nicely integrated acidity and a clean, lengthy finish, it’s ideal for drinking over the coming 2-3 years.
Since the founding of the winery in 1992, Frank Family Vineyards has poured their passion for land, grape growing and winemaking into each and every bottle of Frank Family Vineyards wine. Today they own over 450 acres of the finest vineyard land checkerboarded throughout the Napa Valley. This allows them to control quality and cultivate sustainably on their own estate and enables winemaker, Todd Graff, to blend perfectly balanced wines. With a commitment to crafting the finest representation of Napa Valley wines, Frank Family Vineyards hopes to create a legacy for generations to come.
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.
Known for elegant wines that combine power and finesse, Carneros is set in the rolling hills that straddle the southernmost parts of both Sonoma and Napa counties. The cooling winds from the abutting San Pablo Bay, combined with lots of midday California sunshine, create an ideal environment for producing wines with a perfect balance of crisp acidity and well-ripened fruit.
This cooler pocket of California lends itself to growing Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Syrah. Carneros is an important source of sparkling wines made in the style of Champagne as well.