Winemaker Notes
Starting with a complex nose featuring notes of buttered popcorn, caramel, Granny Smith apple, and light spices, this Chardonnay has a medium-full body that is luscious, savory, and well-balanced. Honeydew melon and lemon appear on the mid-palate, concluding with rich vanilla and lactic flavors elevated by a refreshing acidity in the finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
This is bursting with citrus notes of tangerine, lemon and lime zest, plus floral details of orange blossoms and honeysuckle. A firm hint of toasted brioche and thread of crushed rock minerality leave an impression.
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James Suckling
Open and friendly on the nose, with pears and fennel wrapping around flavors of yellow apples, pineapple, cinnamon, lemon pastry cream and minerals. Nice concentration and generous fruit.
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.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.