Rivers-Marie Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2012

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    Varietal

    Region

    Producer

    Vintage
    2012

    Size
    750ML

    ABV
    13.8%

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    Winemaker Notes

    This Sonoma Coast appellation offering comes from Joy Road Vineyard and Lucky Well Vineyard. Joy Road is owned by Terry Adams (a Chardonnay legend himself) and sits only about a half mile from our estate Summa site. It’s a tiny plot, very densely planted and meticulously maintained. Given the cool site, it’s all about cut and tension featuring high toned citrus notes, fruit zest and a nice stony minerality. The block at Ulises Valdez’s Lucky Well site is planted to an old Wente clone. Like Joy Road, location here is what contributes most to the finished attributes of the wine. It’s a bit warmer so the wine features rounder, more generous fruit notes. The fruit spectrum is still more citrus then tropical but notes of brioche, fresh cream and pear creep in at the end to provide richness. The combination of the two sites works well in the finished blend.
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    Single variety wines made to reflect the vineyard & vintage from which they came. Owned by Thomas Rivers Brown & Genevieve Marie Welsh.
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    One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.

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    A vast appellation covering Sonoma County’s Pacific coastline, the Sonoma Coast AVA runs all the way from the Mendocino County border, south to the San Pablo Bay. The region can actually be divided into two sections—the actual coastal vineyards, marked by marine soils, cool temperatures and saline ocean breezes—and the warmer, drier vineyards further inland, which are still heavily influenced by the Pacific but not quite with same intensity.

    Contained within the appellation are the much smaller Fort Ross-Seaview and Petaluma Gap AVAs.

    The Sonoma Coast is highly regarded for elegant Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and, increasingly, cool-climate Syrah. The wines have high acidity, moderate alcohol, firm tannin, and balanced ripeness.

    RSH176724_2012 Item# 176724

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