Iconic Wine Heroine Chardonnay 2022
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Heroine is a wine dedicated to the pure expression of Chardonnay and the characteristic of wine often described as feminine. These wines are typically acid driven with high tone aromatics. Every year Iconic Wine designs a wine that is elegant, focused and complex, but still is unapologetic in its power, thus the perfect heroine.
Iconic Wines is the brain child of Birk O'Halloran and Karl Antle. The two met in college and quickly became great friends bonding over a mutual love for whiskey, witty banter and all things nerdy.
About the art: Growing up their imagination was captured by the cape crusaders of comics and as they got older those same feelings of excitement, inspiration and fantasy were cultivated as they each fell in love with wine. Today they get to work every day with their heroes doing what they love so it only made sense to put the heroes of their youth that inspired them to dream big on the bottles of their dream job.
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.
Defined more by altitude than geographical outline, the Sonoma Mountain appellation occupies elevations between 400 and 1,200 feet on the northern and eastern slopes of the actual Sonoma Mountain and is part of the greater Sonoma Valley appellation. The mountain reaches 2,400 feet; its hills separate the cooling winds of Petaluma Gap from the Sonoma Valley.
On a cooler western flank, Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Syrah enjoy a great deal of success. Vineyards on its warmer, eastern side, interspersed with heavily forested areas, tend to include Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel, and Syrah. Given its complexity of topography and mesoclimates, Sonoma Mountain excels with a wide range of grape varieties.