Harken Barrel Fermented Chardonnay 2021

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Vintage
2021

Size
750ML

ABV
13.5%

Features
Green Wine

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Winemaker Notes

Indulge in the rich flavors of Harken Chardonnay, where a luscious palate of crème brûlée and buttered toast perfectly blends with the warm oak aromatics. The fresh acidity and subtle hint of Bosc pear balances the richness, leaving your taste buds tantalized and longing for more.

Professional Ratings

  • 91

    Everyday wine lovers continue to buy bottles of oaked Chardonnay by the millions, and millions of those bottles are not as good as this wine despite costing significantly more. With rich flavors of baked apple, it's full- bodied and satisfying yet still shows an edge of freshness, and while the oak is notable, it accents rather than overpowers the fruit. A clear success for the style at this price point.

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Harken

Harken

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Harken, California
Harken  Winery Video

Winemaker Adam Popp barrel ferments 100% of the Chardonnay, which imparts that creamy malolactic goodness you just can't fake. For added complexity of flavor, Harken ferments and ages in their signature fusion barrels, which are made of alternating staves of French and American oak.

Throughout aging, the barrels are hand stirred every two weeks to reintegrate the lees with the juice and deliver that luscious mouthfeel. Tedious? Yes. Delicious? Also yes.

Harken is made from 100% Chardonnay grapes grown under California sunshine without GMOs or pesticides.

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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.

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Arroyo Seco Wine

Monterey, California

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Named after the dramatic, seasonal river of rain and snowmelt that cuts through the upper elevations of the Santa Lucia Mountains, the Arroyo Seco AVA extends east from the resultant mountain gorge, and into the rural and warm Salinas Valley. During the growing season, cool and damp Pacific Ocean air penetrates the gorge and flows into the valley, creating a cool evening respite for vineyards after a hot summer day. This natural water-release has also created a subterranean aquifer, which helps set the foundation of the AVA's boundaries and supplies the vineyards with water.

Arroyo Seco was actually home to the first commercial vineyard in California, called Mission Ranch, which was owned and propogated by the Mirassou family in the 1960s.

Chardonnay is most widely grown here. But as one of Monterey’s warmer regions, Arroyo Seco enjoys the highest praise for its reds, namely Bordeaux blends.

Arroyo Seco is one of the oldest AVAs in California, its status granted in the early 1980s, and also remains one of its smallest.

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