Winemaker Notes
There’s an enticing deep golden yellow color with tinges of green implying a concentrated, youthful vintage. It is immediately complex with forward aromas of baked apple, lemon curd, vanilla, hazelnut, and pain grillé. Ripe pineapple flavors with a mineral expression come in on the palate where richness is deftly balanced by mouthwatering acidity and freshness. This wonderful tension draws you in for more with this dynamic Chardonnay.
Pairing this wine is easy with salmon rillettes, an asparagus bok-choy frittata, crab cakes (horseradish cream if you like a bit more heat), or chicken Dijon. You can never go wrong with cheese, try Garrotxa, a Spanish goat cheese, Camembert, or even an English Stilton.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Chardonnay Sangiacomo Vineyard Green Acres has a pretty nose of orange blossom, Greek yogurt, roasted almond and stone with a core of sliced pear and white apricot. Medium-bodied with ripe, creamy fruits in the mouth, it finishes with pleasant texture.
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 vast appellation covering Sonoma County’s Pacific coastline, the Sonoma Coast AVA runs all the way from the Mendocino County border, south to the San Pablo Bay. The region can actually be divided into two sections—the actual coastal vineyards, marked by marine soils, cool temperatures and saline ocean breezes—and the warmer, drier vineyards further inland, which are still heavily influenced by the Pacific but not quite with same intensity.
Contained within the appellation are the much smaller Fort Ross-Seaview and Petaluma Gap AVAs.
The Sonoma Coast is highly regarded for elegant Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and, increasingly, cool-climate Syrah. The wines have high acidity, moderate alcohol, firm tannin, and balanced ripeness.