Cakebread Cellars Chardonnay

”Vineyards In 2015 90% of the grapes for our Napa Valley Chardonnay came from the cool-climate Carneros district at the southern tip of the valley with 40% of the fruit from our estate Carneros vineyards. Carnero enjoys a long cool growing season that fully ripens its fruit while retaining the bright acidity that gives our Napa Valley Chardonnay its freshness and vitality. We complemented our Carneros fruit in 2015 with chardonnay grapes from just north of the city of Napa that yield especially luscious wines. This helped us craft a sumptuous yet elegant and complex chardonnay that drinks beautifully young but also ages gracefully in bottle. Vintage 2015 After abundant harvests from 2012 through 2014 the 2015 vintage produced a notably lighter crop. A warm dry winter fostered early bud-break and consistently mild summer weather with a few late-season heat spikes led to our earliest harvest ever. (Since Cakebread Cellars has been around since 1973 that’s saying something.)