2019 SANDHI CENTRAL COAST CHARDONNAY
2019 SANDHI CENTRAL COAST CHARDONNAY, CALIFORNIA. 100% Chardonnay. (Organic / sustainable)
The debut release of Sandhi's Central Coast appellated Chardonnay, from vineyard sources include Bien Nacido (Santa Maria Valley), Phelan Farm (Cambria), Spanish Springs (Edna Valley), Talley (Arroyo Grande), and McIntyre (Santa Lucia Highlands). It was barrel fermented with native primary and secondary fermentations and aged in neutral barrel.
Raj Parr writes:" I am so proud of our first release of Central Coast Chardonnay. I traveled far to find new vineyards that would improve on our Santa Barbara County Chardonnay. Our vineyard sources are now mostly planted to older vines across a broader array of microclimates and soils. This brings character and depth to the 2019 Central Coast Chardonnay. I also chose to partner with growers who don’t use herbicides or chemical fertilizers. This is not just a philosophical choice, it also yields wines with more energy and complexity. Many of the farmers I work with are second and third-generation growers. Their knowledge of the land is the starting point for the purity, focus, and concentration in this wine. I believe ‘terroir’ includes human’s interaction with the land and the 2019 Central Coast Chardonnay is a prime example of what happens when farmers, vineyards, and winemakers come together. A wine that reflects extraordinary old-vine California Chardonnay captured through the lens of low intervention winemaking."
About: Sandhi is a small production California winery focusing on select vineyards from the Sta. Rita Hills in Santa Barbara County. Sandhi was founded in 2010 by Rajat Parr, the wine director for Michael Mina Restaurants, and winemaker, Sashi Moorman.
Sandhi represents a union essential to the production of wine: the collaboration between man, earth, and vine. The willing participation of all three elements is necessary to make great wine, and the winegrower must make this collaboration rich and nourishing for all involved. An understanding of these joint efforts informs Sandhi’s exploration of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines throughout the Santa Barbara County terroir.
The individual vineyards from which these grapes originate–some legendary, some new–have been exhaustively vetted for character, personality, and balance. Employing the wisdom and talents of people who know the vineyards, Sandhi is dedicated to making wines of finesse, minerality, acidity, structure and balance. Wine achieves power and beauty through the seamless integration of these qualities, and this is the inspiration for Sandhi. Wines exhibiting extreme ripeness, alcohol, oak, and other discordant exaggerations cannot truly express a specific vineyards terroir. (Winery)
The debut release of Sandhi's Central Coast appellated Chardonnay, from vineyard sources include Bien Nacido (Santa Maria Valley), Phelan Farm (Cambria), Spanish Springs (Edna Valley), Talley (Arroyo Grande), and McIntyre (Santa Lucia Highlands). It was barrel fermented with native primary and secondary fermentations and aged in neutral barrel.
Raj Parr writes:" I am so proud of our first release of Central Coast Chardonnay. I traveled far to find new vineyards that would improve on our Santa Barbara County Chardonnay. Our vineyard sources are now mostly planted to older vines across a broader array of microclimates and soils. This brings character and depth to the 2019 Central Coast Chardonnay. I also chose to partner with growers who don’t use herbicides or chemical fertilizers. This is not just a philosophical choice, it also yields wines with more energy and complexity. Many of the farmers I work with are second and third-generation growers. Their knowledge of the land is the starting point for the purity, focus, and concentration in this wine. I believe ‘terroir’ includes human’s interaction with the land and the 2019 Central Coast Chardonnay is a prime example of what happens when farmers, vineyards, and winemakers come together. A wine that reflects extraordinary old-vine California Chardonnay captured through the lens of low intervention winemaking."
About: Sandhi is a small production California winery focusing on select vineyards from the Sta. Rita Hills in Santa Barbara County. Sandhi was founded in 2010 by Rajat Parr, the wine director for Michael Mina Restaurants, and winemaker, Sashi Moorman.
Sandhi represents a union essential to the production of wine: the collaboration between man, earth, and vine. The willing participation of all three elements is necessary to make great wine, and the winegrower must make this collaboration rich and nourishing for all involved. An understanding of these joint efforts informs Sandhi’s exploration of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines throughout the Santa Barbara County terroir.
The individual vineyards from which these grapes originate–some legendary, some new–have been exhaustively vetted for character, personality, and balance. Employing the wisdom and talents of people who know the vineyards, Sandhi is dedicated to making wines of finesse, minerality, acidity, structure and balance. Wine achieves power and beauty through the seamless integration of these qualities, and this is the inspiration for Sandhi. Wines exhibiting extreme ripeness, alcohol, oak, and other discordant exaggerations cannot truly express a specific vineyards terroir. (Winery)
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