2008 Diatom Chardonnay Huber Vineyard

Having produced wines of such balance, freshness, and purity without any sense of heaviness or heat is remarkable. Lastly, a monumental Chardonnay is the 2008 Chardonnay Huber Vineyard. Its light to medium straw color is followed by a sweet bouquet of lemon butter, orange oil, lemon grass, and wet rocks. The wine flows over the palate with exceptional vibrancy, impressive acidity, and stunning concentration as well as length. All three of these Chardonnays taste like a grand cru Chablis made from fruit grown in the Central Coast’s cool Santa Rita Hills region. Bravo! These minimalist tank-fermented Chardonnays, with malolactic fermentation blocked, are brilliant achievements from wunderkind Greg Brewer. These wines essentially prove the inconceivable – that high alcohol wines with extraordinary minerality and precision, great elegance, and floral characteristics that never taste heavy, are as fresh and vibrant as any wine can be. Nothing like these Chardonnays is being produced anywhere else in California. Readers should keep in mind they all possess natural alcohols in the 15.7-15.8% range. Tel. (805) 452-5809; Fax (805) 735-9185