Sonoma Coast, Chardonnay, 2021

Crisp finger lime and buttered popcorn. Lovely delineation here with extract and grip bringing great freshness to the overall impression. Lemon cream, sweet pastry and touches of exotic yellow fleshed fruit, you sense that one to two years in bottle this is going to be singing with salty stone fruits and sweet citrus. As ever this is produced entirely from declassified single vineyard fruit, with a new cool Freestone vineyard called Zephyr in the blend. Qualitatively this is on a par with the single vineyards, it is simply less singular. Fermented with just 20% new oak, aged for 12 months in barrel and six months in tank.