Hanzell Sonoma Valley Chardonnay Estate 2021 FRFLSH Each of the 204 barrels

Each of the 204 barrels selected for this release was produced on December 13

and a long mineral finish

and lively mineral quality

the petals of dried violets and roses

where he developed the technical precision that defines their work today

Hanzell Sonoma Valley Chardonnay Estate 2021 FRFLSH Each of the 204 barrelsBefore the Judgment of Paris, before Napa's cult Cabernets, there was Hanzell. Ambassador James Zellerbach founded it in 1953 with a genuinely audacious goal: to make Burgundian wine on the slopes of Sonoma that could stand next to the great whites of the Cote d'Or. Walk the vineyard today and you are walking past the oldest continuously producing Chardonnay vines in the Western Hemisphere. The Estate bottling comes from high elevation volcanic soils