Small Vines Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2013

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Varietal

Region

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Vintage
2013

Size
750ML

ABV
14.1%

Features
Green Wine

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100% from the Barlow Homestead Vineyard, which sits on a cool-windy ridge top with heavy coastal influences in Sebastopol. This exceptional Chardonnay, from obsessively tended vines, expresses a distinct sense of place. It confidently delivers pleasing minerality with subtle richness.

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  • 92
    There are some in the wine business who dismiss Chardonnay as a "boring" wine grape—and indeed, this is often the case. Fortunately, the 2013 Small Vines Wines Sonoma Coast Chardonnay takes the road less traveled and takes the variety into uncharted territory. Winemaker Paul Sloan and his wife Kathryn are producing wines in the most traditional way possible, and they have succeeded. When Paul visited our Wine.com offices to talk wine, we were spellbound by his stories. After starting out as a young wine steward at John Ash & Co in Santa Rosa, he became an ardent student of the grape, eventually making the "requisite" pilgrimage to Burgundy. The resultant wine is more than a pure expression of Chardonnay- it is a statement of respect for Mother Nature and all that she grows. Rich with core fruit aromas and flavors, this wine delivers a wild, natural streak that finishes with excellent vitality. Drinking well now, with fine aging potential. (Tasted: June 20, 2016, San Francisco, CA)

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Owning only a pick-up truck and a shovel; a young wine steward, Paul Sloan dreamt of making Estate Grown, world-class, wines of distinction, far before we could afford to buy an "Estate" in California. Compelled by an ethereal experience with a rare Burgundy, he relentlessly pursued his plan to innovate winegrowing in California and grow only small vines to create meaningful wines of authenticity, balance and structure. But the story doesn't start there…

Only in high-school, Paul started as a bus-boy learning about wine from passionate restaurateurs. He embraced wine with an unquenchable desire to read and taste everything he could-and eventually worked his way up to the assistant wine buyer position at John Ash and Company (in 1993 until 95). As a very young wine steward, he was given many opportunities to taste both California classic wines and wines from all over the world. One night, his life would change forever, when a person dining alone offered him a taste of a very rare Burgundy. This ethereal experience, with one of the world’s greatest wines, sent him on a quest for more knowledge and forever fueled his drive to make captivating wines like this. He launched into self-study, and soon discovered that some of the greatest Pinot Noirs in the world come from a mature, small vines.

Soon after this experience, Paul and Kathryn Sloan met and fell in love in nature. As adventurous partners in rock climbing and mountain biking, we took a sabbatical and traveled the country only to return home to one of the most beautiful places on earth, Sonoma County, California. It is here, where Paul’s family has been for three generations (and now four), that we embarked upon even bigger adventures. Paul returned to college to get his Viticulture degree, and simultaneously went to work for one of the most respected winegrowers in the county, Warren Dutton of Dutton Ranches.

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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.

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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.

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