Sebastiani Sonoma Chardonnay

Vineyards for more than four decades sonoma county has been one of the premier regions in california for chardonnay. Our multiplicity of climates and soils provide a broad range of sites perfectly suited for this noble grape. Taking full advantage of this diversity our 2015 sonoma county chardonnay features fruit from carneros sonoma coast chalk hill and lodi. Vintage 2015 was a fantastic vintage producing high quality fruit. It began with an earlier than average budbreak and an intense compacted harvest beginning earlier than average as well. E high temperatures in august and early september accelerated maturity and picking times. We picked all grapes by early september 2015. Overall this has been an early and light harvest with smaller berries and concentrated flavors that produced exceptional quality fruit. Winemaking we hand-picked and whole-cluster pressed the grapes and then racked roughly half of the juice into barrels for primary and malolactic fermentations. E