Winemaker Notes
Pale straw color. The aromas are uplifting and expressive showing fresh cut apple, pineapple, and brioche. The mouth has impeccable balance with a rich midpalate, just enough acidity for brightness, lingering flavors of nutmeg spiciness and apple orchard fruit notes, a hint of toastiness from the oak, and a long lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Fresh lime curd, gardenia and honeysuckle aromas draw the nose into this appellation cuvée. A lively sizzle of acidity cascades across the richer butter tones of the palate, which finishes on citrus flavors.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2022 Chardonnay Edna Valley over-delivers, offering ripe orchard fruits, brioche, and spicy, subtly toasty notes in its medium-bodied, nicely textured, satisfying style.
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.