So exciting!!

Meet Guy Davis - Founder, Farmer and Winemaker of Davis Family Vineyards. Please check the calendar on www.texacaliwine.com to find out where he is each day while visiting Texas! Our Chardonnay is consistently 90+ points each vintage and this past year received "Top 100 Wines of the Year" acclaim and Our founder and winemaker was singled out by Wine Enthusiast Magazine as one of California's Most Dependable producers in their feature "Chardonnay Greatness." Mother nature was unusually cooperative this vintage and helped to make this perhaps our best Chardonnay to date. It was a late October harvest from two Russian River locations: the majority from the Dutton Ranch and the rest, a Meursault clone, from our estate vineyard. After small-lot, whole cluster pressing, 90% of the lots were fermented with native yeasts for increased complexity. 80% of the wine was barrel fermented using only Allier and Trancais oak, and just 1/3 of the barrels were new. The tight grain of these cold climate forests gives subtle flavor extraction and adds a toasty note without ever making the wines taste “oaky”. We did daily lees stirring early in the fermentation for added texture, then racked off the lees (using only gravity to preserve the delicate aromas) once malolactic fermentation was finished. The result? Exotic tropical aromas give way to the benchmark citrus notes of this cool region, and in the mouth the layers of flavor unfold in a yin/yang-like dichotomy of lush fruit with crisp acidity wrapped in vibrant and rounded textures. Dee-licious! 688 cases produced.