Raeburn Sonoma County Chardonnay 2021

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Vintage
2021

Size
750ML

ABV
14%

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Winemaker Notes

Raeburn Chardonnay shows an array of complex fruit tones ranging from pear and Gravenstein apple to nectarine. The fruit is beautifully complemented with toasted oak, vanilla and hints of crème brûlée with a balanced and elegant finish.

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    We've long been fans of this 100% barrel-fermented wine aged in sur lie for nine months in French and Hungarian oak, but this vintage displays a surge of aromatics and flavors that is truly impressive. Ripe pear and lemon blossom perfume the air as the luxe mouthfeel of honeyed melon caresses the tongue. Intermingling notes of wet stone, charred caramel and yellow apple connect to an arch of bright acidity. The finish is juicy, with a twist of tangerine.
  • 90

    This well-rounded, fruity and lightly oaked wine offers the classic baked apple, butter and vanilla flavors backed by mild greenapple acidity and a full body.

  • 90

    This is creamy offering notes of glazed peaches, dried mangoes and caramel. Full-bodied, dense and viscous yet with vivid acidity coming through. Ripe and tropical in the finish.

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Raeburn Winery crafts complex, elegant wines dedicated to founder Derek Benham’s mother, Phyllis, and independently minded spirits like her. A lifelong lover of nature, Phyllis has a deep respect for the complexity and spectacular beauty of the environment, and she lives fearlessly within it. Like the birds she adores, she mastered flight early in life as a pilot at age 14. She completed numerous solo expeditions at the Alaskan frontier to study birds in the wild. Phyllis instilled her love of nature and spirit of independence in her son Derek and inspired by her, he founded Raeburn in 2014. The name Raeburn is Old English for “the river where one drinks” – a salute to free-thinking adventurers, like Phyllis, who dare to venture off the beaten track and flourish there.

Raeburn wines are complex and elegant wines. Made in a California certified sustainably winery, they are committed to protect and conserve the wilderness.

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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.

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Home to a diverse array of smaller AVAs with varied microclimates and soil types, Sonoma County has something for every wine lover. Physically twice as large as Napa Valley, the region only produces about half the amount of wine but boasts both tremendous quality and variety. With its laid-back atmosphere and down-to-earth attitude, the wineries of Sonoma are appreciated by wine tourists for their friendliness and approachability. The entire county intends to become a 100% sustainable winegrowing region by 2019.

Sonoma County wines are produced with carefully selected grape varieties to reflect the best attributes of their sites—Dry Creek Valley’s consistent sunshine is ideal for Zinfandel, while the warm Alexander Valley is responsible for rich, voluptuous red wines like Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are important throughout the county, most notably in the cooler AVAs of Russian River, Sonoma Coast and Carneros. Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot and Syrah have also found a firm footing here.

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