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- Winemaker: Theresa Heredia
- Farming: Sustainable, organic practicing
- Variety: Chardonnay
- Terroir: Pellegrini’s Olivet Lane Vineyard was planted in 1975 to Wente selection on AXR rootstock. The vineyard sits on 65 acres of sloping benchland in the Santa Rosa Plain, in between the warmer Westside Road region and the cooler Green Valley, where warm summer days are moderated by cool breezes and chilly evening temperatures. The combination of low temperatures, regular fog intrusion and well-drained loam, clay soils create an excellent environment for growing Chardonnay that develop cool-climate characteristics and impeccable acid at low sugars.
- Vinification: The grapes were harvested in the cool morning hours at ~22.5° Brix. A quick pass was made through the rows a few days prior to harvest in order to drop fruit that didn’t express the optimal flavor concentration. As anticipated, the grapes that were delivered to the winery were packed with delicious, vibrant, varietally expressive characteristics. After a very careful hand-sorting, all fruit was combined in the press, and used a gentle program to extract only the most desirable solids and phenolics. The resulting juice was left in tank to cold-settle overnight before transferring to 35% new and 65% one to three-year old neutral French oak barrels and puncheons for fermentation and aging, where it remained for 10 months on its primary lees until it was time to bottle in July. The wine was racked off the primary lees only once, just before bottling.
- Aging: 10 Months, French Oak (35% new)
- Tasting Note: Enticingly complex aromas of lemon zest, white nectarine, lemongrass, and baked pear tart. The palate is at once juicy and tangy, with an unctuous texture contrasted with verve and minerality. This incredibly concentrated and energetic Chardonnay finishes with a silky, mouthcoating creamy texture that lingers with enduring length.
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Land Acknowlegement
We acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Ramaytush Ohlone (the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula) and the Wappo & Miwok (the original inhabitants of Napa County).