Winemaker Notes
Pair this elegant Chardonnay with a creamy brie or butternut squash ravioli.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Hazelnut, yeasty dough, lemon juice and honeysuckle aromas make for a very expansive nose on this reserve bottling from the Foley family. There's a hint of butter on the front of the palate, which widens to flavors of citrus, almond, toast and oak.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2016 Two Sisters Chardonnay shines in its elegance and brightness. TASTING NOTES: This wine brings aromas and flavors of ripe apple, some mango, earth, and oak. Enjoy its crisp textures with clam Udon with mild red chiles. (Tasted: September 9, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
Creamy aromas and flavors fill this luscious style to the brim. Apple pastry and tropical fruit elements chime in and linger on the finish, with decadent spice and crème brûlée notes. Drink now through 2022.
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.
The largest and perhaps most varied of California’s wine-growing regions, the Central Coast produces a good majority of the state's wine. This vast California wine district stretches from San Francisco all the way to Santa Barbara along the coast, and reaches inland nearly all the way to the Central Valley.
Encompassing an extremely diverse array of climates, soil types and wine styles, it contains many smaller sub-AVAs, including San Francisco Bay, Monterey, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Paso Robles, Edna Valley, Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Maria Valley.
While the Central Coast California wine region could probably support almost any major grape varietiy, it is famous for a few Central Coast reds and whites. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel are among the major ones. The Central Coast is home to many of the state's small, artisanal wineries crafting unique, high-quality wines, as well as larger producers also making exceptional wines.