Stats
- Grapes: 100% Chardonnay
- Vineyard: Cope Williams Vineyard
- Vine Age: 37-years-old
- Soil Type: Free draining red basalt loam
- Viticulture: Sustainable - dry-farmed
- Fermentation: Native – whole-bunch pressed to three seasoned French barriques and one new 300L Stockinger hogshead
- Skin Contact: None - just at the press
- Aging: 12 months in three seasoned French barriques and one new Stockinger 300L hogshead then racked to stainless-steel for six months
- Alcohol: 12.5%
- Total SO2: 35 ppm
- Total Production: 92 cases
Tasting Note
Mike Bennie calls this “insanely delicious.” It’s crisp, saline, and nutty with inherent drinkability. Lemon curd and nectarine float on the tongue, and the finish reveals itself slowly, and for quite some time. Very impressive.
Press & Reviews
The Wine Front
96
"This is insanely delicious. It wins the millionth customer award where streamers and confetti fall from the ceiling. It’s the texture of Persian fairy floss, ok, that’s obscure, but it feels glassy, crisp, lacy at once, and delivers this high tensile crunch like the rim of a Zalto glass bitten off in your teeth. The flavours are saline, nutty, some green apple, a touch of natural yoghurt, but savouriness is the forte and acidity is the trump card. Boil this prose down and you have something so brilliantly drinkable, unique feeling and beautifully poised between its elements, while remaining expressive and kinda wild. Jeepers, onto something here."
- Mike Bennie
- Mike Bennie
Vinous
94
"Light, hazy chartreuse. Pungent, deep-pitched lemon curd, pear nectar and smoky mineral qualities on the expansive nose. Chewy and tightly wound, offering bitter pear skin, nectarine, Meyer lemon and fennel flavors that slowly stretch out with aeration. Shows impressive energy and focus on the long, penetrating finish, which echoes the floral and smoke notes."
- Josh Raynolds
- Josh Raynolds