2019 RICHARD DINNER CHARDONNAY Sonoma Mountain

WINEMAKER NOTES The Richard Dinner Vineyard Chardonnay intrinsically epitomizes the house style of Ron Noble Wines. Chardonnay is known by Winemakers to be versatile and this site requires expertise and finesse to balance the density, structure and acidity of this wine. Our winemaker started work- ing with this iconic block of Old Wente Chardonnay in 2006 while at Paul Hobbs Winery. This block is perched at 820 feet on the Northern slope of Sonoma Mountain. Volcanic soils, vine age (1994), cooling fog from San Pablo Bay, and consistent farming are among the reasons it is considered a unique and Gran Cru site in Sonoma County.

TASTING NOTES This inaugural vintage of Richard Dinner Chardonnay is golden and opalescent, a prelude to the flavor intensity and unfiltered complexity of the wine. Concentrated and lifted aromas of green apples, vanilla bean and white jasmine flowers will entice your senses. Opulence in a glass, the wine has excellent fruit density with flavors of canned pears, crystalized ginger and mandarin oranges. Exotic and baking spices are layered into the flavor profile and the wine finishes creamy, polished and long.

TECHNICAL DATA

HARVEST Hand harvested at night; grapes delivered cold to the winery. Clusters hand-sorted; Champagne-style press cycle; whole-clusters pressed to 2.0 bars of pressure.

FERMENTATION Pressed juice immediately to French Oak barrels; no SO2 prior to fermentation; 100% barrel fermentation; native yeasts fermentations concurrent with native malolactic fermentation; long, slow fermentations.

AGING Battonage weekly through ML; minimal SO2 additions; 80% new French Oak barrels; elevage 14 months sur lie prior to bottling.

BOTTLED UNFINED AND UNFILTERED.

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