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Cambria Chardonnay Katherine's Vineyard 2021
Santa Maria Valley, Santa Barbara County, Central Coast, California, United StatesKatherine’s Vineyard is located on the coastal Santa Maria Bench in Santa Barbara County. The property is typically fog-covered and cool most mornings, providing a surface asset to match the underground fossilized seashells, shale, limestone, and sandy soils. The winery describes Katherine’s Chardonnay as an “ocean-influenced, single vineyard expression of refrigerated sunshine.” The wine is rich in flavour yet fresh with intense citrus, ripe red apple, tangerine, and honey, supported by a cool underside of acidity and minerality. Food-friendly halibut dishes make a great match. Katherine’s mixes mostly Clone 4 (92%) with Clone 76 (2%), Clone 96 (2%), and the Wente Clone (4%). It weighs in at 13.9% alcohol and is 65% barrel fermented, which goes through a complete malolactic fermentation, and 35% stainless steel fermented with no malolactic fermentation. It is aged sur lies for 5.5 months before blending and bottling. 85% of this wine is from old vines planted in the 1970s.Tasted: 16 January 2023Tasted by: Anthony GismondiPrices:| BC | $33.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
| AB | $31.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
| SK | $38.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
| MB | $38.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
Grape: ChardonnayCSPC: 2322231UPC: 726319000028
