LUTUM Gap's Crown Chardonnay 2016
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2016 Chardonnay Gaps Crown Vineyard comes from a site on the Sonoma Coast and was aged in 20% new barrels. Bright citrus, lemon curd, white flowers, and ample minerality and marine notes emerge from this beauty, which is slightly racier and more focused than the Sanford & Benedict. Beautifully balanced, it can be drunk any time over the coming decade.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Chardonnay Gap's Crown Vineyard offers up aromas of citrus pith, preserved lemon, toasted nuts and smoke. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, glossy and textural from lees contact, with racy acids, lovely tension and chalky grip on the finish. This is a very successful Chardonnay.
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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
A vast appellation covering Sonoma County’s Pacific coastline, the Sonoma Coast AVA runs all the way from the Mendocino County border, south to the San Pablo Bay. The region can actually be divided into two sections—the actual coastal vineyards, marked by marine soils, cool temperatures and saline ocean breezes—and the warmer, drier vineyards further inland, which are still heavily influenced by the Pacific but not quite with same intensity.
Contained within the appellation are the much smaller Fort Ross-Seaview and Petaluma Gap AVAs.
The Sonoma Coast is highly regarded for elegant Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and, increasingly, cool-climate Syrah. The wines have high acidity, moderate alcohol, firm tannin, and balanced ripeness.