Kistler Chardonnay Sonoma Mountain 2024

Kistler Chardonnay Sonoma Mountain 2024

The Kistler plantings on Sonoma Mountain, situated on a hillside bench perfectly suited for growing world class Chardonnay, are interlaced with the rare combination of red volcanic and fine grained chalky soils. The vineyards are planted to California Heritage clones that were selected specifically over the last 30 years to ripen to our balanced wine standards. They are some of the oldest Chardonnay vineyards in Sonoma County. When coupled with the selections in the vineyard the textbook growing conditions afford a wine that is decidedly Sonoma Mountain in character. Annually some of our earliest vineyard pickings each year, this is a wine driven by a grounded, focused mineral core yet lifted by striking ethereal tones of vibrant light fruit raised at elevation.

• 100% Chardonnay (Kistler Clone)
• Sourced from McCrea Vineyard (Sonoma Mountain AVA)
• Red volcanic and fine-grained chalky soils
• Gently and slowly pressed for 2-hours
• Native yeast fermentation in barrel
• Full malolactic fermentation
• Aged 11 months in barrel with no batonnage, 38% new oak
• Racked into stainless steel tanks for 3 months before bottling
• Unfined and Unfiltered
• 13% abv