Winemaker Notes
The 2024 Sarah’s Vineyard Dwarf Oak Chardonnay displays fruit notes ofbright citrus, lemon zest. golden delicious apples, and pears. The time inprimarily neutral French oak barrels lends a touch of vanilla and a soft creamytexture to this bright, crisp wine.
Pair with a leek and goat cheese tart, cracked crab with drawn butter, or cream-sauced pasta dishes.
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.
Home to some of California’s most influential winemaking pioneers of the late 1800s, Paul Masson and Charles Lefranc, the Santa Clara Valley AVA hugs up against the southwestern border of today’s famous Silicon Valley and excels in the production of bold reds, as well as some whites.