- Region
- California
- Producer
- Mount Eden Vineyards
- Vintage
- 2020
- Grape varieties
- 100% Chardonnay
- Bottle size
- 75 cl
- Ratings
- 91 points Robert Parker
- Alcohol
- 14%
- Special characteristic
- Contains sulphites
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Hand-picked and hand-selected grapes. Gentle pressing followed by fermentation, malolactic fermentation and maturation in 66% first- and 33% second-use French oak barrels. Blending after 10 months with a further two years of bottle ageing before release.
Intense notes of preserved lemon, ripe apple and pear, complemented by honey, butter and fine roasted aromas. The palate has a fine, creamy, rich mouthfeel with focused acidity. Persistent finish with a slightly saline minerality as well as notes of lemon and cardamom.
Perched on a cool, exposed mountain top with meagre and infertile Franciscan shale soils, this 16-hectare estate is dry-farmed according to the principles of sustainable viticulture.