Varietal: 100% Viognier
Vintage: 2023
Vineyard: Estate Chiara Vineyard, Monterey County
Barrel Program: 100% Stainless Steel
Winemaking: Methode Champenoise. No skin contact, picked and pressed immediately into stainless steel tanks. Cold fermentation in stainless steel.
Tirage Bottled: January 2024
Disgorged: January 2025
Dosage: 1 g/L
Finished wine: 12.4%
Notes: This wine presents a spicy aroma and flavor profile, featuring peachy stone fruit with crisp acidity, balanced by rounded fruit characteristics. This unique profile results from the later, more mature harvest of the grapes. The year 2023 was marked by cold, wet conditions, leading to delayed maturation; thus, sparkling wine was the ideal choice for this vintage, as our typical table wine ripeness was not achievable. The outcome is a delightful and playful representation of our Estate Viognier.
