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Liquid Farm "White Hill" Chardonnay - 2020

Name: Liquid Farm "White Hill" Chardonnay
Brand: Liquid Farm
SKU: 30672
Price: 46.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 30672 750mL

The wines from Liquid Farm winery are an effort to express fresh yet fruit-driven and honest Chardonnay. Quality over quantity is a driving force which is why you can rest assured that with each bottle you taste, there's nothing but great character.

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Color

White

Vintage

2020

Country

USA

Region

California

Sub-Region

Monterey

Producer

Liquid Farm

Grape Variety

Chardonnay

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Staff Pick Notes

Owner/CEO, Jeff Nelson, always preferred the cool climate, lower alcohol, earth driven wines of Europe compared to the fruit focused more alcoholic wines from California. The Santa Rita Hills was the perfect place for him to make his wines modeled after the French region of Chablis. But, how can Chablis-like wines be made in area that west of Santa Barbara? Isn't it crazy hot?? The Santa Rita Hills AVA is one of the only places in California where the hills run on a east/west parallel. With the Purisima Hills to the north and the Santa Rosa Hills to the south, fog and cool breezes from the chilly Pacific ocean create a cool meso-climate, helping keep the alcohol on the lower side. Using Neutral oak and forgoing maloactic fermentation, keeps this wine citrusy, fresh and a pleasure to drink.

- MHG

Glossary

California

California makes more wine than any other state in the United States. Not only does the state grow a variety of noble grape varieties like Pinot Noir, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, there are also plantings of lesser-known varieties such as Nebbiolo, Roussanne and Mourvèdre to name just a few.

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...