Sandhi Bentrock Chardonnay 2014

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Vintage
2014

Size
750ML

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Winemaker Notes

To surmise the potential of a young vineyard site and then, vintage after vintage, confirm those suspicions is as gratifying an experience a winemaker can have. The Bentrock Chardonnay greets you with an exotic, lifted and focused nose, brimming with raw ginger, crushed rock, and smoke. As we’ve all come to expect, the palate is tightly wound in its youth, focused, and direct with loads of acidity. This is the bottle to cellar for quite some time.

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    This 2014 from the windswept Bentrock vineyard is reduced at first—if you drink it now, splash it into a decanter to let the flinty matchstick scent blow off. It turns into a gastronomic chardonnay, its spicy lemon-curd flavor tuned by electric acidity and gripping earthiness. The oak is a bit prominent in the finish, suggesting that this needs a few more years to harmonize into layered complexity. (178 cases)

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Sandhi

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Sandhi, California
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Sandhi is a small production California winery focusing on select vineyards from the Sta. Rita Hills in Santa Barbara County. Sandhi was founded in 2010 by Rajat Parr, the wine director for Michael Mina Restaurants, and winemaker, Sashi Moorman.

Sandhi represents a union essential to the production of wine: the collaboration between man, earth, and vine. The willing participation of all three elements is necessary to make great wine, and the winegrower must make this collaboration rich and nourishing for all involved. An understanding of these joint efforts informs Sandhi’s exploration of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines throughout the Santa Barbara County terroir.

The individual vineyards from which these grapes originate–some legendary, some new–have been exhaustively vetted for character, personality, and balance. Employing the wisdom and talents of people who know the vineyards, Sandhi is dedicated to making wines of finesse, minerality, acidity, structure and balance. Wine achieves power and beauty through the seamless integration of these qualities, and this is the inspiration for Sandhi. Wines exhibiting extreme ripeness, alcohol, oak, and other discordant exaggerations cannot truly express a specific vineyards terroir.

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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 superior source of California Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Sta. Rita Hills is the coolest, westernmost sub-region of the larger Santa Ynez Valley appellation within Santa Barbara County. This relatively new AVA is unquestionably one to keep an eye on.

The climate of Sta. Rita Hills is a natural match for Chardonnay and Pinot noir, thanks to the crisp ocean breezes and well-drained, limestone-rich calcareous soil. Here, grapes ripen just enough, while retaining brisk acidity and harmonious balance.

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