2021 Dash Farms Chardonnay

Husky coffee bean, barley, fresh wheat, dried roses, white pepper and faint white truffle aromatics are super complex and luxurious. Ripe quince, meyer lemon, hints of apricot are ultra varietal and scream for food.The power of the minerality is the dominant trait on the palate. Slight width at the front of the mouth is lost quickly to a deep diving and long line of mineral, which is so delicious with something fatty on the plate. The wine takes some time to reveal itself with the line and le...Read More...

Husky coffee bean, barley, fresh wheat, dried roses, white pepper and faint white truffle aromatics are super complex and luxurious. Ripe quince, meyer lemon, hints of apricot are ultra varietal and scream for food.
The power of the minerality is the dominant trait on the palate. Slight width at the front of the mouth is lost quickly to a deep diving and long line of mineral, which is so delicious with something fatty on the plate. 
The wine takes some time to reveal itself with the line and length being revealed with air.

An experimental approach to the vinification of this wine. The fruit was handpicked over four tries, very gently pressed and each batch fermented separately in a variety of oak vessels – new, old, big, small, French and Slavonian – without additions. The harvest and subsequent winemaking here were central to an effort to capture the very delicate fruit as densely and as powerfully as possible. The resulting wine has a powerful medium weight and a driven mineral that becomes more charged with air. - Pat Underwood, Winemaker. 

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