Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay

Pork, Vegetarian, Poultry, Rich fish (salmon, tuna etc)

The grapes for this wine are sourced from Mount Eden's estate vineyards, established in 1945 by vintner Martin Ray on a rugged mountaintop in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The site consists of 40 acres of low-yielding vines, including Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Sauvignon. The vineyards benefit from the region's unique microclimate, contributing to the wine's complexity and depth.

Matured in a combination of new and 2nd fill Oak barrels, for 10 months ahead of bottling. Bottle cellared for 2 years before release.

Mount Eden Vineyards is a small historic wine estate perched at 2000 feet overlooking Silicon Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountain Appellation, about 50 miles south of San Francisco. Founded in 1945, it is recognized as one of the original “boutique” California winery properties, focusing on small lots of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. Mount Eden’s lineage of estate bottled Chardonnay and Pinot Noir is the longest in California. Planted in austere, infertile Franciscan shale on a cool, exposed mountaintop, these low-yielding estate vineyards have consistently produced world-class wines for over a half-century. In 2007 Mount Eden acquired an additional 55 acre wine estate in the Saratoga foothills, which was christened Domaine Eden. Mount Eden Vineyards also produces non-estate Chardonnays from the central coast, primarily Edna Valley. They have great success making Chardonnay from the Wolff Vineyard and are continually recognized as making outstanding wines from that region. Since 1981 Jeffrey Patterson has guided the winemaking and grape growing at Mount Eden. His emphasis is on wine growing rather than winemaking; and an obsession with gentleness and naturalness in the handling of the grapes and wines is his ongoing passion.