Ferren Wines

Sonoma Coast, Chardonnay, 2021

Name: Sonoma Coast, Chardonnay
Brand: Ferren Wines
Price: 428.74 GBP

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2021
6x75cl
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£428.74

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

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.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

90/100

Antonio Galloni,

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The 2021 Chardonnay (Sonoma Coast) is a fabulous appellation-level wine. Bright and focused, with lovely depth, the 2021 is a terrific offering in its peer group—or any peer group. All the elements are so well balanced. Time in the glass brings out hints of marzipan, white flowers, mint, tangerine peel and sweet spice.

drinking window 2024 - 2029

date of review 02/2024

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.