Scar of the Sea Chardonnay SLO Coast 2024

WINERY NOTES:

OVERVIEW: “This is the first release of our SLO Coast Chardonnay, marking a shift from Santa Maria fruit to vineyards closer to home in the SLO Coast AVA—where we live, farm, and play.  The 2024 vintage was a pivotal year as we began farming 42 acres within the SLO Coast AVA.  With this transition, we realigned our energies to our home appellation, harvesting fruit from this wine from several sites across the region from organically farmed vineyards to reflect the potential of what this wine region can produce.”

VINEYARDS: “The 2024 vintage of the SLO Coast Chardonnay comes from the Rancho Arroyo Grande Vineyard in the southern point of the AVA, bordering the Los Padres National Forest, and our home ranch, the Bassi Vineyard in Avila Beach.”

VINIFICATION: “The grapes were picked over 5 separate picks, from the end of August to the 2nd week of September.  The grapes were pressed the same day as harvest in our 4 ton Euro Press, then the juice was collected in tank to settle overnight. The wine was transferred to netural french oak barrels for fermentation, with 15% fermenting in our concrete egg.  The wine fermented with native yeast and malolactic bacteria, then aged on lees for 19 months without sulfur.  The wine was racked off lees for the first time to blend for bottling.  The wine was bottled with a small amount of sulfur to capture the energy of the wine.  696 cases were produced.”