Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
Alcohol: 13.1%

Light-bodied with aromas of lime juice, mustard seed and clotted cream with a palate of wet stone, fresh cut pears and acacia.

The fruit was whole cluster pressed and left without sulfur additions to purposely oxidize. Native primary and secondary fermentation occurred in neutral oak puncheons, aged sur lees for 10 months in oak and then another 6 months in stainless steel. Bottled sans filtration or fining.

This appellation blend is an even mix of Chapel & Quink Vineyards. Quink vineyard is one of the original Chardonnay sites in the SCM, seated at approximately 800ft above sea level and in certain corners of the vineyard you can glimpse the waves of the Pacific. The uplift, Nisene soils are comprised of eroded sandstone and shale resembling coarse, white sand.