Winemaker Notes
The 2015 vintage of Oliver’s Vineyard Chardonnay is light straw in appearance. The nose reveals alluring aromas of Valencia orange and morning toast. The palate is rich and suave, with notes of mandarin peel, white peach, and apricot.
This chardonnay will pair beautifully with a fresh orzo and spinach salad or dishes featuring avocado, including guacamole.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Plump aromas of lemon mousse, meringue, wet limestone, white flowers and ripe key lime show on the nose of this excellent bottling. The palate bursts with flavors of cool cream, sea salt and lemon pith, set against a chalky texture. A mysteriously compelling experience.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Chardonnay Oliver's Vineyard exudes ripe nectarines, spiced pears and applesauce with touches of coriander seed, white pepper and anise. Medium-bodied with great tension, it has a lovely satiny texture and long finish paved with pepper and spices.
Rating: 90+
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.