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2017 Lucia Soberanes Chardonnay
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Introducing the 2017 Lucia Soberanes Chardonnay, a hand-crafted wine from the Pisoni, Garys’ and Soberanes Vineyards of the Santa Lucia Highlands. With a rich history of farming in Monterey County and a dedication to producing exceptional wines, The Pisoni Family has created a masterpiece with this chardonnay. Upon pouring, the wine shimmers with a youthful brilliance in the glass, inviting the senses to indulge in its aromatic bouquet. Notes of lemon oil, orange blossom, and green apple tantalize the nose, while the dense, rocky soils of the Soberanes Vineyard imbue the wine with a flinty, mineral-driven core. The focused acidity bursts with energy as it dances on the palate, delivering immense concentration that is carefully extracted through gentle pressing. The 2017 Lucia Soberanes Chardonnay is a product of meticulous attention to detail, with minimal stirring of the lees over a 15-month slumber in the cellar providing the wine with a focused intensity. In the glass, it comes to life with a flawless balance of fruit, density, and length, producing a delicate tension that will reward for many years to come.
*2017 Lucia Soberanes Chardonnay is a product by Pisoni Vineyards and Lucia Vineyards.
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Description
About 2017 Lucia Soberanes Chardonnay:
With generations of farming history in Monterey County, and a commitment to making exceptional wines, The Pisoni Family hand-crafts the Lucia wines from the Pisoni, Garys’ and Soberanes Vineyards of the Santa Lucia Highlands.
Tasting Notes:
Lucia Soberanes Chardonnay 2017 is shimmering with a youthful brilliance in the glass, the 2017 Lucia Soberanes Vineyard Chardonnay offers a lifted aromatics of lemon oil, orange blossom, and green apple on the finish. A product of the dense, rocky soils of this site, the wine is flinty and mineral-driven to its core. Its focused acidity bursts with energy as it dances on the palate. Each windswept grape cluster delivers immense concentration that is carefully extracted through gentle pressing. Minimal stirring of the lees over the course of a 15-month slumber in the cellar provides this chardonnay with a focused intensity. In the glass, this wine comes to life with a flawless balance of fruit, density and length, all of which combine to produce a delicate tension that will reward for many years to come.
Barrel Selection:
15 months in 50% New Oak, 100% French Oak
Growing Notes:
Drizzly days, showery days, days of driving rain: after several years of drought conditions, the thirteen inches of moisture that soaked into the parched earth prior to the 2017 harvest provided an incredibly welcome start to the growing season. Although the total rainfall was only slightly higher than than the annual average, it was more than two-and- a half times greater than the meager five inches we received during each of the two preceding years. The warm, wet winter offered a very healthy start to the grapevines, encouraging them to build strong canopies. Budbreak began the third week of March, and the increased growth that followed kept Mark and his team well occupied shaping and managing the canopy throughout the spring to maintain excellent vine balance. Like the winter, the summer that followed was warmer than average. Nonetheless, the Santa Lucia Highlands experienced their typical coastal winds and cooling morning fog. The result was that the growing season progressed nicely with excellent phenological development of the vines. A record-level heat wave surprised us in essentially all regions of California at the beginning of September. The heat prompted the vineyard to begin the harvest in some of the blocks the first week of the month. We irrigated others to maintain and support the ripening grapes amid the heat; by October 6th, approximately a month after they began the harvest, the team took in the last batch of fruit.
Harvest Dates: first week of September, 2017 – October 6, 2017
Winemaking Notes:
The Pisoni Family is committed to raising and hand-crafting exceptional wines. The limited-production Lucia wines are created using classic, gentle and thoughtful winemaking techniques. Hand-picked and sorted grapes are fermented on native yeasts and aged in carefully selected French oak barrels. Their state-of-the-art winemaking facility uses gravity flow as part of a custom design conceived to merge the estate vineyards and winery. This affords them complete control of the farming and winemaking process, ensuring consistently superior quality.
About The Winery:
The Soberanes Vineyard is the latest joint venture between the Pisoni and Franscioni families. Situated on the Santa Lucia Highlands Bench adjacent to the Garys’ Vineyard and named “one of the appellation’s most esteemed properties” by the Wine Enthusiast, the site features tightly spaced vines and is planted to 33 acres of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah. The clonal material planted in the loamy, rocky soil is very diverse and features over a dozen of the most renowned heritage selections from California and Burgundy.
It all started with a dream about Pinot Noir. A true visionary in the Santa Lucia Highlands, Gary Pisoni has worked tirelessly since collecting and making his first wines in the 1970’s, planting Pisoni Vineyards in 1982, and the producing of the first Pisoni Estate Pinot Noir with his sons in 1998. As dreamers often do, Gary felt something on his family’s land that was seemingly not there and followed his intuition relentlessly to uncover it. Multiple costly drilling attempts failed before bringing water up from beneath the solid granite that makes up the hillsides, a feat so many believed to be impossible.
Today, Gary’s vision of Pinot Noir in the rugged and rocky mountains above the Salinas Valley has been more than realized. Multiple blocks of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah varietals pepper the landscape at elevations from 900 to 1,300 feet, from which we produce wines that seem destined to come from this remarkable site. As a winemaker, Gary has always been intent on communicating the personality of the land from which the wine was grown — a task he now shares with his sons, vineyard manager Mark and vintner Jeff.
Additional information
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| ABV |
14.1% |
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| Food Pairing |
Grilled Salmon ,Halibut ,Polenta ,Roasted Vegetables ,Sage-buttered Chicken ,Turkey |
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