2023 Phelan Farm Chardonnay, San Luis Obispo Coast, USA St. Lucia Distillers/ Chairman's Reserve Vinification: Vibrating sorting

Vinification: Vibrating sorting

5 hectares of vineyards in Saint-Aubin just south of Beaune and began tending the vines biodynamically

almost extinct varieties Perruno (in Trebujena

and he tipped me off to the project

2023 Phelan Farm Chardonnay, San Luis Obispo Coast, USA St. Lucia Distillers/ Chairman's Reserve Vinification: Vibrating sortingChardonnay AVA: San Luis Obispo Coast Climate: Cool climate, maritime influence, three miles from the Pacific Vinification: After harvesting all the grapes by hand using low impact four wheelers for transport, most of the wines from the 2021 vintage were fermented whole cluster in stainless steel with indigenous yeast before being transferred to neutral oak barrels for elevage. The wines were then racked off lees and immediately bottled by gravity