As the 2021 chardonnay blends took shape, an unexpected and confoundingly limited blend took us by surprise. This as-yet-unnamed chardonnay demanded its own bottling. Wildly energetic, astonishingly powerful, and crystalline it serves as example of chardonnay’s potential, not only in this place but in the world. Utterly fine-grained and impressively but not unwelcomely architectural, this chardonnay holds a deep vein of oceanic acidity. At the first crack of the cork, the wine immediately opens like bird shot, straight from the barrel of a shotgun after dropping the hammer (one of our all-time favorite scents…) expanding, and sweetening, as it meets the air, to marzipan and Eureka lemon. Intensely spicy and herbaceous on entry, flavors of nasturtium flower and snap pea evolve at the wine’s center to a deep salinity, carrying its oceanic expression through a tingling, palate-staining finish. As we expanded our chardonnay holdings from one to five sites over the last decade, this is exactly the expression of chardonnay we were hoping would someday reveal itself to us, and we’re so pleased to be able to share this dream with you. Don’t sleep on this one – there were, heartbreakingly, only seventy-five cases produced.