Failla Chardonnay 2018, Sonoma Coast, California

100% Chardonnay from Olivet, Keefer Ranch and Flood Gate vineyards. Fruit is whole-cluster pressed into Concrete Egg (10%), Stainless Steel (20%), New French Oak Puncheon (10%) and Neutral French Oak (60%). Native yeasts are used for primary fermentation, and the wine naturally completes malolactic fermentation. The wine rests sur lie for 9 months before bottling. These wines are brooding, intense, elegant and deeply textural. They are wines of meditation and grace and will provide years of growing, fascinating complexity. An incredible reminder of how precious the relationships are, with their own vineyards and the vineyards they source from.