2025 Chardonnay
2025 Chardonnay
Tasting Notes
The 2025 Chardonnay offers aromas of fresh green melon, tangerine peel, and roasted hazelnut. The palate is broad and seamless, balancing richness with vibrant acidity. A persistent saline minerality carries the wine through a long, polished finish.
Vineyard Notes
Our Chardonnay blocks are nestled at the lowest elevation of our Estate, down by Conn Creek, where they are surrounded on three sides by trees. The resulting environment encourages a crisp Chardonnay with a wide flavor profile that conveys the soil’s minerality and cool location. The 2025 growing season was long with moderate temperatures and ample rain allowing the vines to grow their full canopy and thrive, producing a very high quality vintage.
Production Notes
The grapes were picked in early September. Grapes were hand-harvested in the cool, early morning hours and then immediately whole-cluster pressed before beginning fermentation in French oak barrels and our concrete egg. The wine continued to age in the French oak barrels for nine months (20% new) before bottling in June 2026.
100% ESTATE GROWN, PRODUCED & BOTTLED, NAPA VALLEY AVA
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Blend
- 100% Chardonnay
- Production
- 420 Cases
- Barrels
- 100% French Oak (20% new)
- Cellaring
- 2026 - 2031
- Bottling Date
- June 2026
- Alcohol %
- 13.8
- Winemaking Team
- Jim Duane (winemaker), Luis Ruiz (vineyard manager)