Winemaker Notes
Luminous golden color with an enticing bouquet of lemon meringue, vanilla cream, and honeysuckle married with a kiss of sage flowers. Soft notes of lemon carry through from the nose to the palate, intertwining with green apple, golden kiwi, and warmer notes of honeycomb, almond, and graham cracker crust. Light to medium weight in body, this is a fresh and juicy wine that culminates in a clean, silky finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This small-lots wine project offers an opportunity to sample fruit from little-known growers in Mendocino County. Bold, expressive layers of stone fruit, citrus, cinnamon and toasty oak arise on the nose. Nimble flavors of apple, white nectarine and Cara Cara orange play nicely with roasted pistachio and a light, creamy finish. Pair with pasta carbonara.
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.