BloodRoot Chardonnay 2021
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Wilfred
Wong
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Marrying the dynamics of richness and cool-climate refreshment, this Chardonnay has it all. Soured from hillside vineyard sites influenced by chilly maritime breezes. The result is a wine that provides a cool orchard nose of stone fruit, apple, and a hint of something tropical while on the palate it delivers lemon confit, white peach, underripe pineapple, and a hint of vanilla bean. The finish is long and savory.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2021 BloodRoot Chardonnay is an authentic and excellent food-pairing wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of dried earth, peach skin, apples, savory spices, and pencil lead. Serve it with panko-coated, pan-fried Petrale sole. (Tasted: December 24, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
BloodRoot is a secret collaboration between acclaimed winemakers. This group has deep cont acts and vineyard sourcing which they knew they would create great wines for relatively modest prices. This group is also masterful at creating blends. They're the chefs that could walk into your ho use tonight and make a Michelin-starred meal out of anything you have in your fridge and pantry. They want to be anonymous because they have other projects where their wines sell for 4-5X as much money with scores from critics in the 95-100 point range.
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.