Winemaker Notes
This vintage exudes vibrancy with notes of lime and green citrus. The subtle influence of spicy oak adds layers of complexity and depth, leaving you with a lengthy, fresh finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Bright, focused apple and lemon aromas anchor the nose of this Chardonnay. The palate is clean and lively, displaying flavors of Honeycrisp apple, with tangerine and lemon winding up the intensity. A long, complex and mouthwatering finish comes in a framework of beautifully integrated French oak.
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Wine Spectator
Wonderfully intense and vibrant, with plenty of generosity to the flavors of Key lime, quince, pear and Honeycrisp apple on its taut, mouthwatering frame. Offers accents of tarragon and lemon verbena, with a note of crunchy sea salt on the energetic finish.
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Tasting Panel
Fluctuating temperatures required that the fruit from this renowned site be picked at various points over an extended stretch, but the watchfulness and effort involved paid generous dividends. Already impressively balanced and integrated, the resulting wine shows complex flavors of stone fruit, ripe apple, and tropical notes spiced up with a subtle touch of French oak.
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Vinous
The 2022 Chardonnay Gap's Crown Vineyard is gorgeous. Creamy, open-knit and expansive, the 2022 is quite impressive. Citrus confit, marzipan, white flowers, slate and chalk are all woven together. There's a seamless quality here that is so attractive.
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.