2021 Casa Seca Vineyard, Russian River Valley Chardonnay

We’ll never forget the day we got a hand-written postcard from Eva Dehlinger. She inquired if we’d be interested in a new project she and her family were managing. The Vineyard was sandwiched between Kistler and Dehlinger on Vine Hill Rd., and was planted in the 1980s on rare 8X8' spacing on AXR-1 rootstock. Yep, interested! We named our block Casa Seca, or "dry house" after the 1880's brick apple kiln still looming over the vines. We picked at 21.7º brix and bottled a wine with white stone fruit, brioche, tangerine oil, cracked wheat, & mineral. Serve with lobster pot pie.

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