Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A simple, clean chardonnay with lemon zest, sliced apples and stones. Crisp and medium-bodied on the palate, with green stone fruit and apple flavors throughout the medium-length finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The very young and slightly reductive 2023 3055 Chardonnay Is varietal (white and yellow fruit), fresh and harmonious, remarkable for a very dry year like 2023. It has 13% alcohol and very good freshness and acidity, with a certain lightness and finishes dry. It was bottled unoaked.
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 superior source of white grapes for the production of Spain’s prized sparkling wine, Cava, the Penedes region is part of Catalunya and sits just south of Barcelona. Medio Penedès is the most productive source of the Cava grapes, Macabeo, Xarel-lo, and Parellada. Penedes also grows Garnacha and Tempranillo (here called Ull de Llebre in Catalan), for high quality reds and rosès.