Talley Arroyo Grande Valley Estate Chardonnay 2015

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Vintage
2015

Size
750ML

ABV
13.3%

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Winemaker Notes

Pale gold in appearance, the 2015 Estate Chardonnay offers aromas of cantaloupe, yellow apple skin, and a hint of toasted breadcrumbs. The palate is juicy and bright. Notes of peach nectar, stone fruit pith, wet river rock, and lemon curd lead to a refreshing and slightly toasty finish.

Try pairing this Chardonnay with black cod and truffled cauliflower or lemony grilled chicken and spinach.

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    There’s complexity to the fruit flavor of this chardonnay, grown in calcareous soils and fermented without added yeasts in barrels (25 percent new). The flavor ranges from just-ripe yellow peach to apricot skin and squash blossoms, with spice notes of mustard seeds. It’s integrated and smooth, a wine to chill for aperitifs.
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  • 92
    COMMENTARY: Always a player amongst the top Chardonnay producers in the Central Coast, the 2015 Talley Estate Chardonnay is one of the winery's best efforts to date. TASTING NOTES: This wine is tangy and flavorful. Its aromas and flavors of peach skin, dried citrus, and toasty oak should pair perfectly with shellfish in cream sauces. (Tasted: August 20, 2018, San Francisco, CA)

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Talley Vineyards, California
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Talley Vineyards is a family owned and operated winery that specializes in estate grown Chardonnay and Pinot Noir ideally suited for the climate and soils of the Arroyo Grande and Edna Valleys. The Talley’s farming history in the area dates to 1948 when Oliver Talley began growing vegetables in the Arroyo Grande Valley. Guided by this legacy and a commitment to long term sustainability, Talley Vineyards focuses on attention to detail in all aspects of farming and winemaking operations. The goal is to produce distinctive wines of consistently high quality that best express the unique character of each of the Talley family’s six vineyard sites in the two valleys.

Talley Vineyards is located in the Arroyo Grande Valley, seven miles east of the Pacific Ocean in San Luis Obispo County on California's South Central Coast. We are approximately halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles and less than 10 minutes from Highway 101 in Arroyo Grande.

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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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Arroyo Grande Valley Wine

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One of the coolest growing areas in California, the Arroyo Grande Valley runs from the southwest to the northeast, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Central Coast AVA. Situated so that cold Pacific Ocean air and fog is allowed to filter into the valley, Arroyo Grande also has an incredibly long growing season. Bud break occurs in February in most years with flowering in May and harvest in late September; the area is classified as cool Mediterranean.

These weather factors combined with the soil types—continental and marine rocks, greywacke, limestone, shale and volcanic—create wines with great concentration and fresh acidity. The cooler end of the valley is perfect for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and is a good producer of sparkling wines. The warmer, more inland part of the valley is home to some of California’s oldest Zinfandel vines.

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