Tasting Notes

Release Date: Spring 2023

After a bountiful winter in 2019, we were again in the throes of a drought in 2020. We do not irrigate our vines so the winter rains are the sole source of water for each vintage. Thus we pay a lot of attention to our rain gauge.

The harvest was small yet concentrated and healthy. The rampage of fires that affected many of our friends in the wine business in 2020 avoided us—that is just luck.

There is a lot to enjoy with this wine—complex aromas of apple, savory herb, hazelnut, nutmeg and a core of mountain fruit. The wine, given its pedigree, is destined to age gracefully with lovely structure. We have had many  opportunities to enjoy aged Domaine Eden Chardonnay vintages and they are beautiful.

 

Production

1,335

Tech Notes

Rain Total in 2020: 20.6 inches

Yield: 2.5 tons per acre

Harvest Dates: September 10th, hand harvested

Numbers @ Harvest: 23.7° Brix, 3.44 pH, 7.5 grams acidity

Fermentation: 100% natural primary and secondary (malolactic) barrel fermentation

Barrel: 100% barrel aged in 2-5 year old French Oak

Aging: 10 months in barrel, sur-lie;

Bottling: July 2021

Alcohol: 14.5%

Reviews

95 points Wine & Spirits Magazine  - Fall 2023

Top 100 Best Buys

Some people love Montrachet. I love this. A blend of fruit from two ridgetop vineyards, this gives the mineral intensity from Mount Eden’s vines grown in Franciscan shale soils buffered by the fruit richness of Domaine Eden’s chardonnay grown in loam. It brings on green lime freshness and plump richness—or is it the richness of porky ramen broth? Wines like this will be a cool memory in the future. Buy it now

90 points Wine Enthusiast Magazine  - December 2023

There’s a tropical kick to the nose of this bottling, with fresh aromas of lemon meringue and white flower riding a steely minerality. The palate pops with acid-powered lemon-peel flavors as toasted nuts arise on the finish. —M.K.