Brewer-Clifton Chardonnay Santa Rita Hills Sta. Rita Hills Ashley's Vineyard 2007

The more traditional 2007 Chardonnay Estate Verna's offers subtle smoke, white peach, honeyed lemon, and orange blossom characteristics in its full-bodied, crisp, elegant, full-throttle personality. Robert Parker. A Chardonnay wine from California in USA. 2007 Melville Chardonnay Estate Verna's 750ml

This small-lot production Chardonnay from Melville is named for the French term "Inox" which means stainless- steel. This is a completely unoaked Chardonnay, showing intense minerality. This wine is aged on its lees for 5 months, creating a rich mouth feel.

Planted by Norm and Traudl Huber and farmed by Brewer - Clifton, the soil is virtually pure sand, with the twenty-two year old vines driving deep into the earth. The wine clearly shows the crisp minerality of the soil of the vineyard.

The 2007 Chardonnay Sweeney Canyon (just over 15% natural alcohol) offers superb quince, white currant, orange blossom, and lemon oil characteristics in its rich, pure, full-bodied personality. Hints of smoke and earth are also apparent in this brill... Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. A Chardonnay wine from California in USA. 2007 Brewer-Clifton Chardonnay Sweeney Canyon 750ml

Melville is owned by father and son Ron and Chad Melville, with Greg Brewer as their winemaker. After owning several vineyards in Napa, Ron Melville came to Santa Rita and never looked back. The microclimate of the Santa Rita Hills appellation, which is characterized by cool temperatures, prominent coastal winds, and foggy mornings, is well suited to growing the grapes of Burgundy. This Chardonnay offers aromas of toast, white peaches, and grapefruit. It is refreshingly bright and carries a lengthy finish.

This wine is 100% from our Santa Rita Hills estate and is a combination of clones 4, 76, 95, Mount Eden and Wente. Yields were 2.1 lbs/plant (1.9 tons/acre) and were harvested by hand then gently whole-cluster pressed, cold settled overnight and transferred by gravity to barrel for fermentation in neutral (5 to 12 year old French oak), partial malolactic (±15%) and subsequent sur lie aging without any lees disturbance. Tasting Notes: Visually more golden than its sibling above, this wine is loaded with exotic fruit nuances of honeydew, kumquat, star fruit and tangelo. Other citrus and earthy aromas drift towards lemon tart, orange skin and lemon verbena. Wisps of cinnamon, floral honey, graham cracker and hay also subtly shine. The mouthfeel has grip and volume with hints of dried stone fruits, minerals and brine. It finishes with delineation and focus energizing the palate.

Absolutely mind-boggling is the 2007 Chardonnay Huber. White citrus, wet stones, peach, and apricot blossom as well as tropical fruit oils give this wine extraordinary complexity and sensational richness. Remarkable purity and great length further ch... Robert Parker. A Chardonnay wine from California in USA. 2007 Diatom Chardonnay Huber 750ml