Winemaker Notes
This Chardonnay dazzles with its beautiful pale straw color as it catches the lightin your glass. Classic Les Pierres aromas unfold, featuring lemon zest, wet stoneand key lime pie, intertwined with citrus blossom and bright lemon curd. Mineralnotes are enhanced by a touch of light cedary oak, baking spices and a hint ofhazelnut. On the palate, bright citrus-laced acidity melds seamlessly with theoak integration, offering flavors of lime, mineral, roasted nuts and sweet spices.The wine boasts a medium-plus finish, making it a fantastic food wine that pairsexcellently with ceviche, halibut, and sushi.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Vibrant aromas of grapefruit, lemon peel and pastry. The palate is focused and minerally, with a medium-bodied mouthfeel and a creamy texture, giving notes of lime curd, crushed river stones and flint.
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.