Winemaker Notes
This 2019 Chardonnay highlights its purity of fruit, balance, and ideal terroir in every glass. Layered aromas and flavors of Bosc pear, white stone fruit, Meyer lemon, and freshly-cut apple are beautifully framed. This well-structured wine is rich on the palate, sustained by its natural acidity and a light touch of toasted oak smoothness.
Delightful on its own, it also embraces the company of foods such as lemon pepper chicken, grilled pork loin, simply-prepared dorado, shrimp kebabs, and
roasted eggplant.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Husch Mendocino Chardonnay is poised, balanced, and pleasing on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers attractive aromas and flavors of chalk, peach fuzz, and core fruits. Pair it with a well-spiced, rotisserie chicken. (Tasted: August 5, 2021, Boonville, 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.
A large and diverse appellation within California’s North Coast AVA, Mendocino is home to several smaller sub-regions—most notably the Anderson Valley. This scenic region, with rolling hills covered in redwood forests as well as vineyards, is one of the world’s top producers of certified organically-grown grapes. Due to wide geographical and climatic variation, a vast array of wine styles can be found here.