Palate
Our Pratt Vineyard Chardonnay boasts flavors of ripe apricot, pear and stone fruit, with a pop of green apple and citrus. This wine’s crisp acidity is balanced by its extended lees contact, adding texture and body.
Growing Conditions
Growing season 2015 was in the fourth year of the severe drought in California. The normally rainy season between January and March was quite dry resulting in a lighter harvest and an early one. We knew mid-summer that harvest would come early, and it did, by almost three weeks. Our Sonoma Mountain grapes were harvested in late August. Our Yields we also down this year as the weather stressed bud break and we had fewer clusters on each vine. In some areas of Sonoma County we were down by as much as 40%! The Russian River’s cool climate gives us Chardonnay with natural acidity.
Winemaking
All of the fruit was whole-cluster pressed before cold barrel fermentation. We fermented the wine in Hungarian oak barrels.
