Winemaker Notes
Fresh pineapple, pear and a touch of toasted coconut, Fuji apple, toasted honeyed oats, cucumber, roasted hazelnuts and cashew, orange and lime blossom.Rich and round, with fine acidity and long minerality perfectly matched by a creamy, lush mid palate. Lemon-lime zest, with vanilla bean, hints of pineapple, and dried mango finishing with pie crust and fresh pear.
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
The first sensation on nose and palate is ‘fresh’ ? perhaps from hand-harvesting at night. The mouthfeel becomes the focal point: crisp, fresh, clean and bright with an acidity that grips. Summer pear, chamomile and crème fraiche combine for an exquisitely lean but expressive coastal Chardonnay.
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Wine Enthusiast
A lush concentration of pineapple, pear and vanilla takes root in this richly layered and complex wine. With a voluptuous mid-palate, it has a lingering thread of acidity on the finish that's like a succulent bite of tangerine.
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.